Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formosan Bestseller. The visit to the U.S., his first in ten years, is said to be without special significance. He conferred with intelligence officials at both the CIA and the Pentagon, discussed the latest estimates of conditions on the Red Chinese mainland. Between conferences, he squeezed in a one-day jet flight to Cape Canaveral. He also had a 75-minute conference with the President and presented him with a copy of Profiles in Courage in a Chinese translation, adding that it was a bestseller on Formosa...
...divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...
Even J.C.S. Chairman Maxwell Taylor, one of the Pentagon's foremost treaty advocates, predicted that the Russians would cheat by clandestine tests. But he denied that the "gains that might come from this kind of testing would have any great bearing upon our relative position...
...Pentagon's research and development chief, Dr. Harold Brown, a 36-year-old Whiz Kid who ran the Livermore Lab at 33, challenged Teller, noted that while he was "a dear personal friend of Edward's, in this case I disagree with him." But Lewis Strauss, Dwight Eisenhower's Atomic Energy Commission chairman for five years, seconded Teller. The treaty is "a clay pigeon," he said. "It is made to be breached. I think it will be breached to our disadvantage...
...year from its 30,000 subscribers. The soft comforting sounds that ooze from Muzak's speakers are heard each day by more than 60 million people-in hospitals and mortuaries, elevators and space capsules, prisons and jute mills. It even plays during all top secret conferences in the Pentagon, where its mission is to confound eavesdroppers by drowning out all the secret talk. If there is something faintly Chaplinesque in all this, it escapes the Muzak men, whose simple aim is to bring out the best in people...