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Space Is No Problem. "The part of the flight that doesn't worry me is the flight through space," says the chief watcher of the Bird, Air Force Major General Bernard Adolf Schriever, as he ponders the long-range meanings of the test flight he cannot acknowledge publicly. "The problems occur at both ends...
...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...
Three years, probably more, possibly less, must be traversed before General Schriever's mighty missile graduates from test flight to what he calls I.O.C., meaning "Initial Operational Capability." Many more years will be needed to bring it into U.S.'s front-line force-in-being. But already the impact of the ICBM and its supporting family of some 30 Air Force-Navy-Army rockets and ballistic and guided missiles is pressing the U.S., evenly, inevitably, inexorably, into a missile age in which the patterns of U.S. defense, U.S. industry and even U.S. life will be substantially made over...
Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
...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...