Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misinterpretation or the printer who mixed Ben-Gurion and the deity in your opening quotation ["Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." -Psalms...
...Force plans to test-fire its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. Known to its keepers as "the Bird," Atlas presses evenly, inevitably, inexorably, upon the visible pattern of U.S. defense, industry and life, including Southern motels (see cut). For the story of the man, Air Force Major General Ben A. Schriever, who has the responsibility of developing the ICBM as an operational weapon, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Bird & the Watcher...
...most concerned with the problems of the ICBM, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-eyed Ben Schriever (rhymes with fever) has the awesome job of developing an ICBM as a practical weapon of war before the Communists do. He lives with the gnawing awareness of what losing the ICBM race might mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands...
...missilemen contemplate Ben Schriever, a tomorrow's man who often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever...
Believe It or Not. Born in Bremen, Germany just 46 years ago, Ben Schriever came to the U.S. at the age of six, bringing with him a severe earache ("The ocean, I remember, was very rough coming over"), the memory of Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American...