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...Ruined. Last November President Kennedy asked John McCone, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission and now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable...
...Starbird began drawing up general plans long before the British agreed two months ago to let the U.S. use Christmas Island,* a coral atoll some 30 miles long that lies 1,200 miles south of Hawaii. In some ways, Christmas Island was ideal. Big enough to support an airfield, it was far removed from populated islands and prying Soviet monitors. In 1957 and 1958, the British had launched their tests from the island...
...Starbird soon found that long disuse and the corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
When famed Communist-line Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie arrived from France a fortnight ago, her overnight detention on Ellis Island stirred many a U.S. citizen to protest (TIME, March 29). News of her arrival also stirred the memory of French Expert Adele Starbird, dean of women at St. Louis' Washington University. In her St. Louis Star-Times column last week, Dean Starbird recalled a 1946 interview with Mme. Joliot-Curie in Paris. Some Curie-isms...
...Dean Starbird reported that, by the time the interview ended, Mme. Joliot-Curie had become "molten lava." Last week Visitor Joliot-Curie was still erupting. In Seattle, she gave her explanation-the usual Communist line-of U.S.-Soviet tension. The entire trouble, she announced, lay with U.S. citizens, who "look with much more favor on fascism than on Communism." Her reasoning: "Americans think fascism has more respect for money...