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Sailing Orders. The countdown that will put Polaris on station in the '60s began in 1955. In a broad survey of U.S. military strength for President Eisenhower, a blue-ribbon committee chaired by (then) Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr. recommended the construction of a fleet...
In his first weeks in the Polaris program, he demonstrated a massive capacity for work and a monumental scorn for the little details that might slow him down. He had no time for shufling papers through IN and OUT boxes. He kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in...
"Red," says Lockheed's top Polaris man Stan Burris, "is the most unreasonable man if you come to him about a problem you've got today. Tell him about a problem you're going to have in six months, and you've got the most patient...
At the Electric Boat's Groton yard, a nuclear-attack sub of the Skipjack class was well along in construction. Her reactor and control-room sections were nearly completed. By chopping that 250-ft vessel in half and inserting a 130-ft missile bay in her midriff, she could...
The silence in the room when he was finished, remembers Raborn, "was like the silence after a talk by an evangelist. It was the silence before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants...