Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arms and men. Pentagon spokesmen would reveal no hard figures, but confirmed that the U.S. will send "several thousand" more men to Viet Nam over the next six months, most of them "military advisers." This would increase the American military contingent there, currently numbering 16,323, to probably 20,000 or more. Also to be sent are more helicopters, planes, trucks, Jeeps and armored cars-plus at least 300 additional AID technicians, to join the 414 already at work on the Viet Nam economic front...
...Robert Frosch, director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, is sure by now that the present level of solar activity cannot confuse even the earlier satellites into giving a false alarm. But this is the sun's periodic quiet period; when it goes back into its active condition in a few years, blossoms with sunspots and flares and bombards the earth with streams of high-energy particles, the satellites may send in some puzzling reports. "There are still a number of ambiguities that we know nothing about," says Frosch...
...Both the Pentagon and the AEC are sure that no nuclear test has been exploded in space since the first detector satellites were tossed into orbit. Their instruments would have detected even a small (20 kilotons) explosion 100 million miles away and distinguished its effects from all kinds of natural radiation. This is believed to be a modest estimate of their capabilities. "How much better we can do now," said an AEC official, "we're not telling...
...McNamara still sees no contradiction between greater expenditures and more economy. Thus, it was with great pride that he last week announced the results of the cost-reduction program that he has pushed relentlessly. In fiscal 1964, which just ended, the Pentagon had saved $2.5 billion. "We haven't even begun to scratch the surface," McNamara claimed, estimated savings of $4.6 billion by fiscal...
Apparently, everyone from the Pentagon to the remote barracks was getting cost-conscious. Glowed McNamara: "We are literally being flooded with thousands of suggestions from individual military and civilian personnel...