Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Announced at his press conference that he has ordered Administration officials "to immediately begin to introduce a very new and a very revolutionary system of planning and programming and budgeting throughout the vast Federal Government." The new system calls for all Government agencies to adopt Pentagon-style program-analysis techniques to define their goals and estimate costs...
...ordering the Pentagon to start building the MOL immediately, President Johnson made the U.S.'s most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the moon. He also put the U.S. military into the manned space enterprise for the first time. The Air Force, which will control MOL, plans to test-launch some components in 1967, orbit an unmanned lab early in 1968, and send up a two-man MOL later that year. Altogether the $1.5 billion program calls for a series of unmanned test shots and five MOLS...
...their publications; in 1965, in the field of chemistry alone, those learned explorers are turning out-and publishing -6,700 articles every fortnight. Small wonder that the U.S. Printing Office is drawing up plans for a new building with 40 acres of working space-six acres bigger than the Pentagon; or that Yale, if it were to continue using its obsolescent card catalogue, would need eight acres of floor space by the year 2040 just for the cards alone. The books would be virtually unhousable...
...combat pay (to $65 monthly), and permits free mailing privileges from Viet Nam. It will probably be signed by President Johnson in time to fatten servicemen's September paychecks. In another slap at McNamara, a House Armed Services Subcommittee disapproved by an 8-to-l vote the Pentagon's cost-cutting proposal to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard, supporting the argument of its chairman, Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, that the merger "would result in an immediate and serious loss in the combat readiness of the affected Reserve units." The House also passed...
...annulled. Keeping solemn tab on the retributions, not to mention the whole 32-character plot line, is the responsibility of Peyton Place's "story board." The board, consisting of three senior writers, and aided by a constantly updated chart presentation that probably has no counterpart outside the Pentagon's "war room," lays out each episode. Five junior writers then turn their scenarios into finished scripts. None of the eight writers is over 35; only two earn less than $1,000 a week. Expensive Trappings. But they have to work to stay in that bracket. The cameras grind away...