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...pretending that there are." A successful industrialist himself (iron foundries, etc.), Stokes asserted that British aircraft manufacturers "have been living on their failures." In ten years, he said, Britain has spent $2.8 billion on 166 aircraft projects, 142 of which "went into the wastepaper basket as useless." Of these 166 aircraft projects, he said, only eight proved successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wastebasket Defense | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Bartley gave the losers their only score by sinking a 50-foot push shot in the wrong basket. He added ten baskets and two foul shots to wind up as high scorer for both teams. By sinking the other point, D. A-. Resnick proved that Bartley is not infallible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Ends in Doubt | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Varsity Five Closes Season, Defeats Brown Squad, 70-66 | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

...that time, the Crimson's pre-game thesis--that if you stopped Tebo, you stopped Brown--had been proven. For when Tebo dropped in that first basket, the varsity held a commanding 34-18 lead, and led 45-31 at the half...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Varsity Five Closes Season, Defeats Brown Squad, 70-66 | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

...earn the contempt of the battery commander. Gunner Asch wins his corporal's stripes and shows up the simple-mindedness of the goose-steppers. But by a superb irony, he is the final loser; through the simple expedient of throwing all the Asch-inspired reports into the waste basket, the commander restores discipline, and the battery reverts to glacierlike army routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Privates Can't Win | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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