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Such courses could be a fruitful part of education as no ROTC course could be. For Pentagon control and the purpose of military training would restrict the freedom of teaching and learning that any liberal arts course requires. Even if Faculty men were used, there might be a repetition of the incident during the war, when a professor saw Navy sanction of his course fade away because he and the officers disagreed on how the course should be taught...
...Pentagon gives its approval, Army ROTC courses here will be "liberalized" next year, Colonel Trever N. Dupuy, chairman of the Department of Military Science and Tactics, said yesterday...
...Pentagon Jungle." The Sarnoff Commission's recommendations were the outcome of four months of bitter experience in what the report called "the Pentagon jungle." Established by Harry Truman's Defense Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett last October, the commission soon reached the conclusion that the armed services were trying to smother it with irrelevant data. Said Sarnoff: "The commission has received tons of information and not an ounce of interpretation . . . Cooperation from the services boils down to furnishing the commission with voluminous, lengthy and complicated documents . . . which leave the reader with a greater sense of bewilderment than...
...demagoguery quickly fizzled out. More seasoned correspondents cabled that Operation Smack had been carefully planned and valuable. It would have been carried out if there had been no visitors. Responsible Congressmen, after inquiry at the Pentagon, agreed that the operation, despite its unfortunate code name, was in no sense a publicity stunt. Military commanders in Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like...
After the Senate confirmed Charles Erwin Wilson as Defense Secretary, a Pentagon wag quipped: "They okayed him lock and barrel." Last week the Senate's Armed Services Committee okayed Wilson's four top assistants on the same lock-and-barrel basis-minus stock in defense industries. Then the committee recalled Air Secretary-designate Harold E. Talbott for a third round of questioning. The Senate went ahead and confirmed the other three appointees by voice vote...