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...Force's Missile Boss-and Minuteman Boss-Major General Bernard A. Schriever (TIME, April 1). The concept was developed and presented by a brilliant colonel, Edward N. Hall, 43, a day-after-tomorrow kind of officer with a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech and a twelve-year background in ballistic-missile science...
...satellite itself, with its delicate instrumentation, might well have held the whole project up for months or years-had not Wernher von Braun, during most of the period that he was barred from engaging in satellite work, been in what he calls "silent coordination" with Caltech's William Pickering and the University of Iowa's James Van Allen in planning Explorer and its instruments...
William H. Pickering, 47, sandy-haired, New Zealand-born director of the Government-owned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor...
Bragging Rights. Despite such minor frictions, most newsmen hoped that the Yates pact would continue in force (though the A.P. complained that it created an "in-between shadowland"). While Airman Yates (who also has a master of science degree from Caltech) had previously proved more adept at dodging newsmen than dealing with them-notably as General Eisenhower's top U.S. weatherman through the Normandy landings-he had clearly succeeded in bringing cooperation out of chaos at Canaveral. Already well liked by the press, the Maine-born general won new popularity at week's end by giving newsmen handsomely...
...cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...