With chinks in its 50-year-old armo...

With chinks in its 50-year-old armor beginning to exhibit the Pentagon building, focus of U Defense Department activities, is being readied for a renovation each bit as massive as the 65 million-sq.-ft. arrangement itself.

At a shoot forwarded cost of $1 billion, plans call for gutting the military command center down to its concreted shell, replacing outmoded mechanical and electrical bodys and providing new finishes over Plans also include removing asbestos located completely through the complex. The fibrous material was a constituent of the Pentagon's original ceiling plaster.