Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was a storm center during the campaign, but he is a take-charge man after Johnson's own heart, has mastered the Pentagon bureaucracy as has no Defense Secretary before him, and of all the Cabinet officers probably stands highest with the President. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has made soft sounds about leaving for financial reasons, but the President likes him and he will probably stay on for a while...
...Them. Though some managers have lost their jobs to computers, higher-echelon men will not be replaced but simply reoriented to accommodate the machine. At companies such as Lockheed and Westinghouse, young executives are trained in computerized management in night school courses that are a cross between the Pentagon's war games and Monopoly; competing teams of executives use the machines as aids in determining the likely effects of changes in prices, inventories, styles or advertising. In a sense, the computer enhances the executive's powers by cutting through all the statistics and presenting several alternatives, which...
...under reporters' questioning, the Pentagon admitted that Walter Jenkins' security clearance to top-secret Air Force and Defense Department information and his Atomic Energy Commission top-secret "Q" clearance have been suspended...
...Pentagon felt that all this had got out of hand when left to individual discretion, but its proscription of expense-account lunches along with gifts made many Washingtonians wonder how defense business would be conducted at all. Few officers want to return permanently to taking lunch at the Pentagon's dreary, stand-up snack bars, and neither they nor the lobbyists are likely to revolutionize their lunching habits until there is a test case of the new rule...
...cases, of course. An officer may lunch at a defense plant, where it would be impossible for him to pay, or he or a relative may accept a memento advertising a defense product. The penalty for the latter is considerable bother, since it involves a detailed report to the Pentagon within 48 hours, even if the report is only about that model airplane that a manufacturer gave to Junior. Reason: "Favors, gratuities, or entertainment bestowed upon members of the immediate families of DoD personnel are viewed in the same light ... no matter how innocently tendered or received...