Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing in North Vietnam). People worked for McCarthy, who lost by only a little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter...
...effect of the Faculty's vote was not immediately clear. Even though the removal of professional appointments might clash with existing laws, Colonel Pell said he would ask the Pentagon to keep the ROTC units here on a non-credit basis. Pell also pointed out that the Corporation's contract with Army ROTC required a one-year notice before either side could make changes in the ROTC arrangements...
...Corporation was slower to reveal its action on ROTC. Pentagon officials said that they too were waiting to hear what the Corporation had decided...
...directed a project that designed the "PERT COST" management system for the Defense Department. The project was originally intended for use on the Polaris program, but since then the "PERT COST" system has become the pentagon's standard management tool...
...White House press office said on Friday that Fox has also been working as a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and to several defense contractors. Neither the Business School nor the Pentagon would disclose which contractors Fox has been advising or what work he has done for the Secretary of Defense...