Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the nation's private citizens who are critical of the war. Lacking an organized, effectual medium through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched and picketed and advertised. Already infected with malefic characters whose political education ended with 19th century nihilism as updated by Che Guevara, the peace movement has too often degenerated into caterwaul and caricature and, even worse, noncommunication. McCarthy's candidacy will at last give legitimate dissenters...
...similar at Yale, until this fall. Two seniors quit the Yale Daily News to begin publishing The New Journal, a bi-weekly blend of solid reporting, lively literary criticism, fiction and photography. The writing is consistently good and often superb; everything from book reviewing to reporting on the Pentagon demonstration is approached from a fresh angle...
...event, most non-civilian officials in the Pentagon--and Vietnam--are likely to breathe a good deal easier than they have for the past seven years. McNamara, almost alone among the eight Defense Secretaries since the National Defense Act of 1947, considered himself and acted as the President's top adviser on all matters pertaining to American military operations...
More important, and far more disturbing to the military chieftains, McNamara was able to strip the services of much of their political and economic power. He fully centralized Pentagon budgeting procedures and placed the three services' procurement operations under civilian direction--saving billions and sharply cutting the military's domestic political influence...
...Secretary's legendary resilience and competence aside, it is difficult to separate the utility of the innovations McNamara brought into the Pentagon from the foreign policies they served. For example, under McNamara, the size, mobility, and adaptability of U.S. ground, air, and sea forces increased many times over. This novel rapidity in deploying our forces undoubtedly made President Kennedy's limited threats to the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis more credible and effective...