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...Paper Factory. R-W makes none of the actual hardware for the ICBM program. What it does is act as technical boss for a project rated twice as complex -and twice as costly-as World War II's Manhattan Project. With Major General Ben Schriever in overall command (TIME, April 1), R-W acts as his technical staff overseeing the 220 major companies in the ICBM missile program. So secret is the job that R-W's green-and-pink headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport is among the most closely guarded plants in the nation. So complex...
...electronic secrets of everyone in the program-secrets that may later have valuable commercial use. R-W vehemently denies that it plans to use its position to steal a march on the competition, points out that other companies benefit greatly from its technical help. Despite the complaints. General Schriever sturdily backs RW, holds that it is one of the big reasons why the program is solidly on schedule so far. Says Westinghouse Vice President John A. Hutcheson: "Sure they're tough. They've got to be. They're the glue that sticks all the pieces together...
Since the future of our country lies in the capabilities of dynamic men like Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, I read with extreme interest your April 1 cover story. The Atlas ICBM will be successful for the simple reason that Ben Schriever and his associates possess a fighting will...
Your splendid article about Missileman Bernard Schriever is most inspiring and comforting for the free world - in case trouble comes...
This will be the real and immediate meaning of the fateful X-day that will occur at the Air Force Missile Test Center in Florida a few weeks hence when Ben Schriever's first Model-T ICBM is lifted vertically for its first test blastoff. And while this will be a great moment in military history, what will 1987 think of it? Or 1997? The missile stands just about where the airplane stood after World War I-when military planes had to compete for the taxpayer dollar with the cavalry horse. How primitive will tomorrow...