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Show 2-Man Desks Up Defense Payroll The custom of having civilian and military executives doing duplicate dup-licate jobs in the Pentagon is now being blamed for much of the Defense De-fense Department's manpower troubles. Newsmen covering the Pentagon say it's common to find a $750-a-month colonel and a $600-a-month civilian sitting at a tandem desk doing a job that probably could be done by either of them. The colonel generally is in charge, the newsmen news-men report, but it's the civilian who has the know-how. Defense workers say that abolishing abol-ishing this duplicate-job system would cut at least 10 per cent from the 20,000 civilians and 10,000 muV itary personnel now on duty in the Pentagon. |