Word: schrievers
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...Battle for Outer Space In his closely guarded headquarters in Los Angeles, Air Force Major General Bernard Schriever, 46, keeps hidden under a shroud a model of one of the intercontinental ballistic missiles which are his special concern. Less and less under wraps, in recent weeks, is slim Ben Schriever himself, and the Pacific Coast has gradually become aware that he runs something called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made...
...biggest problems afflicting space-travel specialists as well as U.S. missilemen, said Schriever, are how 1) to propel the vehicle "up to empty space with, velocity sufficient to continue inter-body space travel" and 2) then "bring it back through an atmosphere without disintegration. In each of these respects . . . the ICBM is attaining the necessary capability." The ICBM re-entry test vehicle, the Lockheed X17, has made a number of successful flights at critical speeds (which other sources place as high as 26 times the speed of sound). Moreover, "the same guidance system that enables the warhead of a ballistic...
Summed up General Schriever in a remark that rescued space travel once and for all from the realm of science-fiction fantasy: "In the long haul our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving space superiority. Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles, but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy." In that effort, Schriever made it substantially clear, the U.S. was determined...
Ordered to ride herd on IBM development is Brigadier General Bernard Adolph Schriever (rhymes with beaver), whose mission is hidden behind an obscure title -Assistant to Commander, Air Research and Development Command, Western Development Division-at a West Coast address. Born in Bremen, Germany 44 years ago. Schriever became a U.S. citizen in 1923, graduated from Texas A. & M. in 1931, enlisted as an air cadet, left the service to become a Northwest Airlines pilot, returned in 1938 to be a test pilot, went to Stanford for mechanical engineer training. During the war he became top maintenance...