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Wilson, occupied with high-level huddles, left most of the Pentagon intramural work to Kyes. Some Kyes policies: tighter correlation of production schedules: use whenever possible of standard civilian goods (e.g., trucks) instead of specially-designed items; channeling production contracts to low-cost producers...
...keeps Kyes busy. He gets to the Pentagon before 8:30 a.m., seldom leaves before 10 p.m. When he went to Washington, he expected to be busy for a while, so he left his wife and four daughters behind in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Mich. They are still there...
Both in & out of the Pentagon, Washington has been talking of the need for revision of the 1947 National Security Act ever since it was last patched by Congress nearly four years ago. But even the most ardent advocates of revision hesitated to throw debate open for the pulling and hauling of the individual services and their congressional spokesmen. Eisenhower's decision to present his proposals in the form of a "reorganization plan" was perhaps his happiest stroke, since a reorganization plan 1) cannot be amended by Congress, 2) is not likely to involve committee hearings, and 3) automatically...
Treffery. Daniel and Cox had. Some of the exaggerated Pentagon talk about brainwashed, Communist-indoctrinated G.I.s began to boil away in the screening process. At one hospital 67 were examined, and 34 were immediately cleared to be interviewed by the press. At the second hospital, all of the 106 processed were cleared...
Around the Pentagon, as well as among flyers in Korea, there was considerable wisecracking about the offer. In Britain's House of Lords, an excitable Labor peer announced that he regarded it as dastardly to bribe the enemy to commit treason...