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Major General Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief . . .Sc.D...
ELEVEN months ago, in a cover story on the Air Force's missile boss. Major General Bernard Schriever, TIME told the story of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. So fast has been the pace of missile development that Schriever and the Air Force are already hard at work on a new missile system that may ultimately make Atlas look like a Zeppelin. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Second Generation...
...Breakthroughs. Plans for this formidable new weapons system have been developed during the past few years under the eye of the Air 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...
...also been aware that long-countdown liquid-fuel missiles were not weapons of true instant retaliation. Barred by the Defense Department temporarily from solid-fuel development, the Air Force was impressed by the rapid progress and strategic potential of the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris. Months ago Schriever's men got down to work adapting the Polaris' developments to Air Force concepts...
...Titan ("the most sophisticated long-range missile") resting ominously on its pad. And CBS gave viewers the kind of peek inside bustling missile plants that newspapers do not provide. In matter-of-fact interviews, U.S. scientists and generals pulled no punches. Warned Air Force Missileman General Bernard Schriever: "It's safe to say the Russians have IRBMs now in operational units...