Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographers in the White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
...Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems that McElroy did not get around to-plus an even more urgent need to grasp the military possibilities in space. Gates has a scant year before the Eisenhower Administration runs out of time, but if he only improves Pentagon morale and makes overdue decisions, he will surely qualify for the first team...
Three accredited private investigators of U.S. defenses nailed a bright red danger signal to the Pentagon's highest mast this week. The signal: "The military position of the United States has declined in the short span of 15 years from one of unchallenged security to that of a nation both open and vulnerable to direct and devastating attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns...
...chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research and development; Rear Admiral Charles B. Martell, Hayward's assistant. Most of the high-flying officers have, or had, duties connected with procurement or air research. Martin, which does 99% of its business with the Pentagon, holds $800 million in defense contracts...
Since his investigation began, 23 officers and noncoms have been transferred out of Turkey with more to follow. The Pentagon has refused to say whether any were guilty of misdeeds or merely of failure to exercise sufficient responsibility. Several of the officers complain that the opposition Turkish press, which is currently on an anti-American kick, has played the story as if all were culprits. Among the 13 officers reassigned are five Izmir unit commanders and four finance officers; among the ten sergeants was the personal secretary of NATO's Izmir commander, Lieut. General Paul Harkins...