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...Easy. Oldham did not do it alone. Army Tackle Bill Melnik got so exasperated at seeing Navy's Battleship Tackle Bob Reifsnyder (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) playing in the Army's backfield that he put Bob out of the game. It was easy. He threw punches until Bob punched back. Both were banished...
...domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other's hardware, compete for scientific brainpower and even keep technological secrets from each other...
Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
...late afternoon the Sixth Fleet had sailed: from Cannes the 60,000-ton supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers. Under leathery Fleet Commander Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, the atomic-armed Sixth was eastward bound to back up and buck up little Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...interplanetary junketing, just as they keep pace with the fantasies and the donkey work of their jobs. Admiral Radford, a rugged (6 ft. 163 lbs.) man with sharp blue eyes and close-cropped sandy-grey hair, was once a zealous apostle of naval aviation who delighted in baffling battleship admirals and big-bomber generals alike. But Radford has grown in the Joint Chiefs as he has grown into all of his career responsibilities, and he now yields to nobody in his understanding and specific knowledge of the best military-diplomatic interest of the U.S. Items...