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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...
Stepping into Schriever's shoes at B.M.D. will be his deputy, Brigadier General Osmond J. Ritland, 49, an old Air Corps test pilot who handled a long line of research and development assignments until 1950, when he was made commander of the Air Force Special Weapons Center's Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Until 1953, when he went off to Washington to study at the Armed Forces Industrial College, Ritland was responsible for the air phase of continental nuclear testing, got his assignment under Schriever...
Rear Admiral John Hayward, 50, assistant chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night...
Last month scientists of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory fitted an Aerobee-Hi research rocket with a special camera. Fired from the White Sands missile range in New Mexico, the rocket soared through the atmosphere; 123 miles up, the camera began clicking. The camera was fitted with a mirror ruled with a grating of fine lines, 15,000 to the inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University...
...step toward economic direct conversion of heat to electricity was announced by a Westinghouse research team. Its basis is the so-called Seebeck effect, discovered in Germany in 1821, which shows that a current flows between two different metals (called a thermocouple) when the metals are held at different temperatures. Since such a system has no moving parts, the thermocouple is theoretically an ideal way to generate electricity. Catch has been that most suitable materials cannot stand the high temperatures needed to generate thermoelectric power on a large scale. By combining indium (a soft, silvery metal used in dental alloys...