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...Twelve years ago last month, Brigadier General Bernard Schriever went to Inglewood, Calif., to start the Air Force's then-secret Western Development Division, a title roughly as revealing as that of the Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb. Schriever's mission was to turn the drawing-board concept of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile into lethal reality-and fast. Intelligence estimates showed that the Russians had powerful rocket boosters that might enable them to get a commanding weaponry lead over...
With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
Best Treated. The report on Aerospace's activities, a product of eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers...
...staff in California and Washington, also kept a Manhattan public relations firm on a $2,000 monthly retainer to advise it and create an independent image. In addition, it paid a Washington newsman $100 monthly, later $150, to pass on such information as advance texts of speeches by General Schriever...
Said General Bernard Schriever, head of the Air Force Systems Command: "The F-111 represents a quantum step forward in the development of tactical air weapon systems." Despite all the claims that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara made an expensive mistake when he insisted on a single basic plane for both Air Force and Navy, the General Dynamics-Grumman partnership that was chosen for the job has managed to match both versions of their fighter to an astonishing degree. The F-111 construction pro gram is not only meeting a tight schedule that was set when the contract was signed...