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Lieutenant General Alfred D. Starbird, in recent testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, countered these arguments by telling startled Congressmen what they hadn't been told last year when they approved initial funds for the program: the Defense Department views the $5.5 billion system as only a first step in keeping up with an increasingly complex Chinese force. The final price tag is unknown...
...those aircraft, an Air Force B-52, sped at high altitude toward the island. In the operations center, Dominic's scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall (6 ft. 5 in.) veteran of atomic testing at Eniwetok and former chief of military applications...
...Chairman Seaborg. Military experts fired off plans to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Actual programming was done by AEC's atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy tapped Starbird for overall field boss; Starbird in turn selected Ogle to run the scientific end of the show. Since Eniwyetok and Bikini were uncomfortably close to sizable Asiatic populations and technically under the control of the test-skittish United Nations, Kennedy persuaded Prime Minister Macmillan to let the U.S. test at Britain...
...Soon Starbird was organizing his task force behind the Lincoln Memorial in a decaying frame building recently vacated by the CIA. Amid cartons and bare walls, he summoned all the old test veterans he could find. As his force grew, so did the costs: up to $1,000,000 a day. Involved are some 1,700 airmen, 6,600 sailors, 600 soldiers, 100 marines, 1,000 civilian technicians, 1,800 civilian construction workers. Starbird's air armada includes highflying U-2s, workhorse C-130s...
Wild Blue Yonder. Last week Starbird's team was rebuilding Christmas Island from the coral up. Shallow-draft lighters ferried in materials from ships anchored in deep water. Huge water-distilling plants arrived piecemeal in great crates. Engineers got ready to lay down an entirely new airstrip. A forest of long-range communications masts and antennas began to rise. Back in the U.S., task force ships docked on both the East and West coasts prepared to sail for the Pacific...