Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy-Wiesner-Chayes report brought an immediate reply from John Foster Jr., the Pentagon's Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Another response came in the form of a 60-page monograph published by a subcommittee of the conservative American Security Council. The A.S.C. subcommittee included not one but two Nobel laureates, Chemist Willard Libby and Physicist Eugene Wigner, an assortment of prominent academics, retired generals and admirals, and Edward Teller, one of the world's most eminent weapons physicists...
Story Outline: We start off with two families, both very different in outlook. Jeanine's family is well established in Boston. Her mother is the usual enlightened square. Her father is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He has sold his soul to the Pentagon but has brainwashed himself into believing he still serves the community, his university, and the nation. He has no clue that he is, in fact, an absolute fink...
DAYTON, OHIO--if Congress fails to authorize funds for an anti-ballistic missile system this year, it will take until 1976 to establish another operational missile defense system, the Pentagon's top scientist said in a speech Monday before the Aviation-Space Writers Association meeting in Dayton...
Laird is expected soon to appoint an unprecedented official commission, including people from outside the Pentagon, to review the strategic priorities for the next few decades. To forestall any doubts about the commission's findings, the chairmanship will probably go to a prominent outsider, perhaps a journalist. Any new Administration could be expected to take at least a perfunctory reappraisal of the nation's military posture. Under attack, Nixon's men seem to be taking seriously the need for a genuine and comprehensive review...
...this seems peculiar at a time when the U.S. teems with putative intellectuals-in hospitals, foundations, think tanks, the government, "knowledge industry" corporations. A company of RCA's scope is now involved not only in manufacturing but also in producing novels and doing research in linear algebra. The Pentagon's interests range from high-energy physics to tutoring for school dropouts. The U.S. needs intellectuals for defense, city planning, space exploration, for running computers and training more intellectuals. The intellectual's horizons are almost unlimited. Then why is he so unhappy...