Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in the Pentagon, flustered brass described the Red gunners as lucky, hastened to explain that jets are terribly vulnerable anyway. "Hell," said one Navy man, "a kid standing at the end of the runway with a baseball bat can knock down a jet if he gets the ball into those turbine blades." But the Reds weren't using baseballs. Western military experts guessed that the U.S. planes had been hit by Soviet-designed ZPU2s-twin, 14.5 mm., heavy machine guns mounted on an armored car and operated from a fast-turning swivel seat. U.S. officials suspected that...
Lane, who has been stumping the Continent with denials that Oswald was the assassin. Both Buchanan and Lane have received smash play in the Eastern European press, whose line has always been that Kennedy was the victim of a three-way conspiracy among Southern racists, Pentagon generals, and the nasty CIA. Two months ago, Lane, addressing the Communist-front International Association of Democratic Jurists in Budapest, declared that the killer or killers, whom he has described as "motivated by diseased minds," are "still running loose...
...would first have to improve the military situation. This means, in effect, urging the South Vietnamese, not to mention the American "advisers," to fight and die with only an uncertain neutrality as the declared prize-a dubious war aim, to say the least. On balance, the State Department and Pentagon are convinced that any agreement to neutralize Southeast Asia, even if one would be concluded, could not be enforced. It would be, in Dean Rusk's words, "a formula for surrender"-merely a cover for Red infiltration and eventual Communization of all Viet Nam, which has been the clear...
WHENEVER the Government needs a troubleshooter in the oil business, it turns to J. (for John) Ed. Warren, 63. Washington called him to duty as a consultant during World War II, the Korean war and the Suez crisis, and he is now a part-time Pentagon adviser. Last week Cities Service Co. named him chief executive to replace Burl S. Watson, 70, who remains chairman. A stocky, straightforward man with a whimsical twist, Warren treats his promotion lightly ("You can't take yourself too seriously"), but concedes that he always had his sights on the top job. Warren started...
...that will enable the phone user to reach frequently called numbers by dialing only two digits, to call third parties onto the line, and to switch incoming calls to other numbers if he leaves his home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that someday will replace wires and microwaves as carriers of the spoken word. A Basic...