Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first weeks in the Polaris program, he demonstrated a massive capacity for work and a monumental scorn for the little details that might slow him down. He had no time for shufling papers through IN and OUT boxes. He kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in a small drawer and remarked: "When I can't close the drawer, someone around here isn't doing enough work." As he recruited people into the Special Projects group, Red gave them all-including their families-a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their mission. Whenever anyone seemed...
Despite all objections, the Navy and the Defense Department decided on the expensive gamble. Red Raborn found himself in command of a program that demanded more of U.S. science and technology than any military program had ever demanded before. His submarine was yet to be built; its navigation system was still in the planning stage. His missile had neither its guidance system, its rockets nor the solution to its launching problems. "But I had all the tools I needed,'' he recalls. "I had authority, and I had money...
...game Raborn concluded that the management techniques of U.S. industry were not good enough for him; businessmen, he told his civilian assistant Gordon Pehrson, know figures, but they do not know what goes on in their plants. Raborn's management experts soon set up a system called PERT (Program Evaluation Research Task) that provided the boss with graphically charted records and computer-calculated time estimates for every milestone on his schedule...
Fragrant Memory. Raborn got his program moving at flank speed. Somehow, in record time, every phase of the mission had to be worked out in theory and tested in practice. Dummy birds of everything from redwood to cement were fired at installations from San Clemente Island to Cape Canaveral. There were test shots from a converted Mariner-class ship, Observation Island. There were tethered shots, shots that were grabbed by hooks, and buoyant birds netted in the water. All helped give basic information...
When the explosion came in the Congo, Hammarskjold was ready. He had just been round the continent making the indispensable contacts of confidence with the new leaders. At the request of the new Congo government, he had prepared a program of "technical assistance.' The man he appointed to get it started was Michigan-born Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, a colored man who could offer such assistance most gracefully. Bunche was on the job in Leopoldville when things blew...