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Busy with all the varied chores that fall on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Omar Bradley paused long enough to list, in order of toughness, the most arduous jobs of his career: i) official dinners, 2) press conferences, 3) Pentagon duty, 4) combat...
...last-minute wire from the Pentagon to Commanding Officer Colonel Richard Grimbel countermanded a previous order to cut 60 third year men. The students were to be dropped in groups...
...anyway of how they had seen Grumman Hellcat fighters, carrying TV transmitters, take off without pilots and be guided from "mother" planes. They thought censors might clear the story. They also mailed their home offices uncensored carbons of the stories to use in trying to get clearance from the Pentagon. The I.N.S.'s Don Dixon, taking the Navy at its word on the supersecrecy, did not even write the story...
...beginning of the Korean war. To pay the bills, unit commanders in Korea, already swamped with the usual paper work, must take on more to keep up the list of eligibles. For the thousands of Korean veterans who have left the front-and in many cases the service, the Pentagon must check back into company records to see who is entitled to the money. This paper work alone, the Pentagon estimates, will cost $250,000,000-more than enough to buy a supercarrier or one thousand...
...stock Administration excuses for the stretch-out has been that the economy is not big enough or strong enough to carry the arms load originally planned. From this handy excuse a do-nothing atmosphere has pervaded Washington; even the Pentagon is no longer making much of an effort to increase production targets...