Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to Europe in 1962 as deputy to NATO's Commander Lyman Lemnitzer. In that capacity, he was assigned to brief Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara during his frequent trips to Europe, and he struck the boss's fancy. Last year McNamara brought McConnell back to the Pentagon as deputy Air Force chief of staff...
...remainder will be placed in an unassigned stand-by reserve force. McNamara's reasoning: the training and equipment of the Reserve divisions were so inferior that it would probably have required one year after full mobilization to bring them to combat readiness-far too long for the Pentagon's war plans. The National Guard will also undergo drastic surgery: 15 of its divisions will be disbanded. But the transfer of the Reserve to the National Guard will increase Guard strength to 550,000 officers and men in eight ready-to-go divisions and 16 brigades. Through the consolidation...
...which he transferred with a hearty handshake wherever the two had agreed to meet. He and his Soviet contact even practiced the handshake ("He had very large hands, which greatly facilitated the procedure"), often met at parties or at clandestine rendezvous. Once he delivered microfilm by handshake at the Pentagon itself...
...Pentagon currently has at least five such plans under study, ranging from limited strikes at the spidery jungle trails that thread through border areas all the way to massive air and sea bombardment of Hanoi and other targets in North Viet Nam. President Johnson is not enthusiastic about any of them. Even after he sent U.S. planes over North Viet Nam during last summer's Tonkin Gulf crisis, he declared: "We still seek no wider war." Signs are that he is sticking to that position...
...leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from the Pentagon to calculate potential markets and profits fed back the prediction that world demand for shoes will exceed the supply of hides by as much...