Word: schrievers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settle on an IRBM to go into assembly-line production, Wilson set up a nicely balanced committee made up of Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, Army Major General John Medaris and Wilson's special missiles assistant, William Holaday. The problem was urgent. With IRBM production soon to be vital for NATO defense, and with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced...
...midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have the highest priority," said Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever (TIME, April...
...merge the Army's experimental Jupiter and the Air Force's Thor into a single intermediate-range ( 1, 500-mile) ballistics missile. The multimillion-dollar marriage brokers: Major General John B. Medaris. boss of the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal; Major General Bernard A. Schriever, boss of the Air Force's ballistics-missile program; and Wilson's special assistant for guided missiles, William M. Holaday, onetime Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc. research director. Wedding date: "Earliest practicable," probably October...
...Paper Factory. R-W makes none of the actual hardware for the ICBM program. What it does is act as technical boss for a project rated twice as complex -and twice as costly-as World War II's Manhattan Project. With Major General Ben Schriever in overall command (TIME, April 1), R-W acts as his technical staff overseeing the 220 major companies in the ICBM missile program. So secret is the job that R-W's green-and-pink headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport is among the most closely guarded plants in the nation. So complex...
...electronic secrets of everyone in the program-secrets that may later have valuable commercial use. R-W vehemently denies that it plans to use its position to steal a march on the competition, points out that other companies benefit greatly from its technical help. Despite the complaints. General Schriever sturdily backs RW, holds that it is one of the big reasons why the program is solidly on schedule so far. Says Westinghouse Vice President John A. Hutcheson: "Sure they're tough. They've got to be. They're the glue that sticks all the pieces together...