Word: schrievers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test-fire its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. Known to its keepers as "the Bird," Atlas presses evenly, inevitably, inexorably, upon the visible pattern of U.S. defense, industry and life, including Southern motels (see cut). For the story of the man, Air Force Major General Ben A. Schriever, who has the responsibility of developing the ICBM as an operational weapon, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Bird & the Watcher...
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...
...leading bird in Ben Schriever's ICBM arsenal, Convair's Atlas, is scheduled for test-firing for the first time at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base this spring. This does not mean that the ICBM is ready for the 5,000 mile trip that will carry it 500 miles up into space. The first test will be over an 1,800 mile course at a lower altitude, primarily to check aerodynamic characteristics...