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From the start, the Pentagon stupidly balked at giving definite security guarantees to Australia and New Zealand. President Truman and Dean Acheson. careless of Pacific affairs, fiddled & faddled. When President Truman's Pentagon refused to send any top brass to the Anzus meeting, President Truman's Acheson thought he better go in person, in the hope that his prestige would give the meeting standing, and help to disguise the U.S. failure to offer anything concrete to her eager Pacific partners...
Crockery. But Washington was not the only city attacked last month by the airborne crockery. From all over the country frightened phone calls and irate demands for information rang through the Pentagon. Air Force intelligence, official guard ian of saucer information, was smothered by an alltime record of reported sightings. Items...
Like the Navy, the Air Force was sure that temperature inversions over the nation's capital had permitted high-angling radars to pick up trucks and other moving targets on the ground. But what about the other 1,000 or more sightings elsewhere? In a Pentagon press conference, just as if he meant to be reassuring, General Samford went on to state that such things as missiles, ice formations, birds, meteors, and honest misinterpretations of natural phenomena account for all but 20% of them. That still left plenty unexplained. So the Air Force plans to distribute 200 special cameras...
Last week the Pentagon and private industry stepped up their titanium program in hopes of performing a new wonder with the "wonder metal." They hope to transform the swaddling titanium industry into a full-grown giant. The Defense Materials Procurement Agency granted a fast tax write-off certificate, and NPA granted a $14.7 million loan to Du Pont to expand its present titanium facilities in Newport and Edge Moor, Del. (If advances in titanium production make the plant obsolete in the next few years, the Government will buy it back...
...defense contractors who will replace steel parts with titanium. First in line was Pratt & Whitney, which with other jet engine producers has been experimenting with the metal for three years. P. & W. agreed to use titanium in the J57 engines for the B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). The Pentagon hopes such moves will multiply the uses of titanium in a hurry, thus spur production and chop its cost per pound...