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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...
...Oklahoma's Professor Frank Armon Melton noted in an airplane mosaic map of Horry County, S. C. some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been...