Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clock Follies. As it grapples with the fractional, fluctuating political story, the Saigon press corps has lost much of the camaraderie of the chummy days of 1963, when so much reporting was aimed at supporting the same anti-Diem line. "Today there is no Halberstam group," says a relieved Pentagon observer, referring to New York Timesman
...from which they can jump off for trouble spots on short notice. Mobility will get its biggest boost with the introduction in about three years of the C-5A, a transport capable of carrying 700 troops at 550 m.p.h. One hundred C-5A sorties would enable the Pentagon to throw 70,000 troops into any trouble spot in a few days. Soldiers will take only light equipment, will "marry up" with prepositioned heavy materiel stockpiled near the scene of the action...
...will increase its strategic-missile force by 1968 to a projected ceiling of 1,710, including 656 submarine-based Polaris projectiles. The Pentagon is now installing 200 late-model Minuteman II missiles, is developing a Minuteman III with improved range, explosive power and targeting flexibility. Although the big missile force is largely in place and paid for, there is some apprehension among the experts that the improving power and accuracy of Soviet missiles may some day make the land-based birds obsolete. If that occurred, the U.S. might have to switch-at vast expense-to the water, placing ICBMs...
...Defense Department last year took 80% of the $875 million output of the seven major producers: Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing-Vertol, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division, Kaman, Hughes Tool, Fairchild-Hiller and Brantly, which was acquired last week by Lear Jet Corp. This year the Pentagon will spend $1.3 billion for 3,156 choppers, absorb 90% of U.S. production...
...Green-Pea Run. Manufacturers, of course, are as delighted as the Pentagon with the improving technology of military helicopters. This year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...