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...game Raborn concluded that the management techniques of U.S. industry were not good enough for him; businessmen, he told his civilian assistant Gordon Pehrson, know figures, but they do not know what goes on in their plants. Raborn's management experts soon set up a system called PERT (Program Evaluation Research Task) that provided the boss with graphically charted records and computer-calculated time estimates for every milestone on his schedule...
Threading his way through a maze of PERT charts, Raborn could spot trouble in advance-at Sunnyvale, Calif., where Lockheed Aircraft Corp., prime contractors for the missile kept 9,000 men on the job, at the new plant near Sacramento where Aerojet-General Corp. was working on solid-fuel rocket engines, at the Groton, Conn, sub pens of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. From weekly progress reports he could tell where to pour on extra effort to break a prospective bottleneck. Contractors had a hard time keeping up with Raborn's knowledge of what was going...
Article of War. Pound for pound, as the ships* grew and their equipment was installed, they became the most complex vehicles ever built for the sea. And by the time George Washington was ready for launching last December (just as the PERT charts predicted), the men who had been chosen to manage her fantastic hardware were as impressive as the ship herself. Commander James Butler Osborn, the crewcut, square-jawed skipper who looks like a football player, talks like a Marine drill sergeant and thinks like a well-trained engineer, seemed almost in love with his exquisite command. "This ship...
Next Thursday, Aug. 4, Oscar Brand and Joan Baez will present a program of folksongs. Miss Baez' work was recently cited by Time magazine; Brand has been called "fresh, pert, earthy and alive...
Married. Millie Perkins, 23, pert, former teen-age-fashion model who rose to stardom in her first movie, The Diary of Anne Frank, has yet to appear in a second; and Dean Stockwell, 24, former child actor (Boy With Green Hair), who hit the big time with his portrayal on stage and screen of a murderer in Compulsion; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...