Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, with a precision born of 40 years as a soldier, Taylor strode out of the Pentagon's river entrance exactly at 10 a.m., escorted by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Lined up before him was an honor guard of ceremonial units from each service and the U.S. Army band. Three 105-mm. howitzers roared a 19-gun salute over the muggy Potomac...
Taylor ordered his wife, mother, son and daughter-in-law "front and center" for pictures with the President, went back to the Pentagon to clean out his desk before flying to Saigon on July...
...Johnson became commandant of the Army's elite Command and General Staff College. There he coined a slogan, "Challenge the Assertion"-an attitude that has since won him the admiration of Bob Mc Namara, whose hobby is shattering military shibboleths. In 1963 Johnson moved into the Pentagon as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations...
...same time, the company has been hit by the U.S.'s planned 10% reduction in defense orders. Sperry Rand counts on the Pentagon for half of its sales. In the past year its defense backlog has dropped 14% to $515 million, and it has laid off 300 engineers, as well as 1,300 production workers...
...West senses some growing pains. Southern California last year started more new houses and apartments-200,000-than any entire state, but local contractors now complain of overbuilding. Cutbacks in defense-spending during April resulted in 5,000 layoffs in California, which depends upon the Pentagon for fully one-third of its manufacturing output. But personal income in neighboring Nevada last year ran 13% ahead of the 1962 rate-a more rapid gain than any other state's-mostly because of its returns from legalized gambling...