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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Bernard Schriever, 48, who organized and built up the Air Force's Ballistic Missile Division, will get a third star and be named chief of the Air Research and Development Command, B.M.D.'s parent group. German-born Ben Schriever (TIME, cover. April 1, 1957) grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Call for Test Pilots | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...most respects, the Prime Minister of India was much the same old Nehru after Tibet as he had been before: while granting political asylum to the Dalai Lama, he was still busily placating Peking. When Red China charged that Kalimpong was the "command center" of the rebellion, Nehru at first denied the charge, then admitted that the border town was indeed a hotbed of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink, white." He refused to be bothered by the fact that the Chinese embassy circulated an editorial repeating the old Kalimpong charges even after he denied them; after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shame! Shame! | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...architecture it comes down to Gropius's statement that a designer "expresses his ideas of form with the technique and material at his command." Therefore in studio design courses, the core of the GSD curriculum, "Emphasis on such visual considerations as composition and proportion is shared by equal attention to the mechanical and structural considerations that influence design...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Design School Pioneers in Creative Approach | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...emerged in office as a firm and responsible friend of the U.S. His ministers take pains to assure U.S. investors that their dollars are welcome and safe in Canada. Diefenbaker's cooperation in defense has strengthened the effectiveness of the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: One Year Later | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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