Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snowed In & Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport...
...Administration objective, wiping out the Communists below the 17th parallel would involve unthinkable costs and dangers. Even to defeat the 230,000-man Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...Viet Nam, the U.S. cannot afford to ignore the ever-changing nature of the wars that it may face a decade hence. Last week, in an unusually frank exposition of American strategy for the 1970s, Secretary of Defense McNamara discussed the potential threats and the retaliatory measures that dominate Pentagon planning...
Last week the Pentagon had second thoughts. Under a year-old Army regulation, ex-servicemen who have been sent to prison for five years or more are ineligible for burial in a national cemetery. Thompson had received a three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...long that the U.S. has almost fully closed the gap between what it is actually producing and what it could theoretically produce at top steam. Just five years ago, economists calculated the gap at more than $50 billion; now the escalating demands of consumers, corporations and the Pentagon are straining the U.S.'s supply of men and machines. The nation is encountering what Johnson's report called "the problems of prosperity...