Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last September, Seattle's Boeing Co., having spent $16 million to design a giant jet military transport, lost the $2 billion Pentagon contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and its C-5A. Despite the staggering blow, Boeing's President William Allen managed to sound philosophical. "When you lose," he said, "you look for other opportunities...
...single project for a Pentagon airplane design produced 35 tons of documents that took 400 Government employees five months to read and evaluate. Sixty federal agencies have issued at least 1,000 different regulations on the hundreds of types of records that private companies must keep, and the task of filling out Government forms now takes them 95 million man-hours yearly, an 8% increase since 1964. Among the documents required by the Government are the 117 forms that it takes for each ship to enter and clear a U.S. port, some written in language that goes back unchanged...
...wife, Angie Dickinson stays at home, smiling through her fears and reminiscing in murky flashbacks. As the hero's lively helpmate in the Haganah, Senta Berger manages to make half-baked fiction look like a whole girl. Guest Star John Wayne, perhaps inadvertently, turns his role as a Pentagon overlord into an uncanny impersonation of President Johnson, while Luther Adler, sporting a ludicrous Ben-Gurion hairdo, pretends to be an Israeli leader named Zion...
...educators complain they have too much responsibility over students' lives because grades are a factor in draft deferments [March 25]. Draft boards must decide which men to take. Army classification people must decide which men to train for combat, which for jobs behind the lines. The Pentagon must decide which units to send to Viet Nam, which to noncombat areas. Leaders in Viet Nam must decide which units to send into combat. The platoon leader must decide which squad to send on patrol. I don't think it too much to ask the educator...
...number of crash deaths by 50% if they could prevent fires. The airlines, the military, the FAA, CAB and NASA are all hard at work on just that problem. They are developing a "very promising" jellied fuel that burns slowly and does not leak from ruptured tanks. The Pentagon and the FAA are experimenting with "tough wall" tanks made of nylon and polyurethane; when a tough-wall helicopter was slammed against a jagged rock at 100 Gs, the crash left only a one-eighth-inch crack. Airlines are also experimenting with a fire-resistant foam, which would automatically flood...