Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that could not be cut. To prove it, he spent long nights wearing a black eyeshade, seated behind a gallimaufry of reports, books and papers, studying and slicing. He especially delighted in heckling the military. In an annual spring ritual, he would arise with flailing arms to castigate the Pentagon. Starting with Philip of Macedon's tactics, he would trace the history of warfare through Henry V down to the first and second World Wars. Military men, he protested, were not susceptible to change-especially changes that might save money. "We had a deuce of a time getting them...
...looked around for the first things we could lay hands on, and there was a bunch of stockpiled B-26s and T-28s, so we shipped them off to Viet Nam. After that, it was a combination of necessity to make do with what you've got and Pentagon lethargy...
Belated Beef-Up. Last week Pentagon sources revealed that around 50 sturdier Douglas Skyraider dive bombers have already been shipped to Viet Nam and that 75 more would arrive by the end of the summer-to replace both the B-26s and the remaining combat T-28s. Though also a prop-driven World War II craft, the Skyraider is a much more powerful warplane and almost twice as fast as the B26. Armed with 20-mm. cannon, Skyraiders distinguished themselves in Korea for their close support of the Marines. But the improvement is belated. As to the question...
...many Pentagon stargazers, Lieut. General William Westmoreland has long looked like a future Army Chief of Staff. And he almost certainly will be if he succeeds in the thankless job he got last week. He is the new U.S. military-assistance commander in South Viet Nam. Since January, "Westy" Westmoreland, 50, had been deputy to General Paul Harkins, who, after his experiences, must look forward to retirement...
...resent hearing it called "McNamara's war"? At his Pentagon press conference last week, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara soberly reminded everyone that it was South Viet Nam's and the U.S. Government's war. But he added that he didn't really mind...