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Conventional war games are played on maneuver-area battlefields with sweat, dust, mud, and all the roaring, dangerous machines of modern war. Last week at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, quiet men in a quiet room were playing another sort of strategic war game. The only battle noise was the click of switches as electric impulses flashed through intricate circuits...
Last week the MIG was under study at the U.S. Air Force's experimental base in Dayton. First discovery: the engine, which almost everyone had feared was a redoubtable fruit of Russian-plus-German technology, was an unmodified, British-made Rolls-Royce Nene. Britain had shipped perhaps 100 jet engines to Russia before the trade was stopped in January...
...passed up invitations in favor of the N.C.A.A. tournament this week. Bradley University decided to run a tournament of its own. Long Island University, with three of its stars out on bail, doesn't play basketball any more. Nonetheless, the invitation final between Brigham Young and Dayton brought out 18,379 fans, the largest crowd of the year at the Garden...
Before the game, the Mormons from Brigham Young (enrollment: 5,500) had prayer in the locker room. As usual, the Skyline Conference champions (24-7) did not pray for victory; they simply asked God to help them play like good sports-and to the best of their ability. Dayton, dubbed the "Cinderella" team of the tournament after upsetting top-seeded St. John's of Brooklyn and fourth-seeded Arizona, just hoped the slipper would continue to fit. For a while it almost...
...first half, Dayton's hard-driving Style of play held Brigham Young almost perfectly even. In the second half, Dayton was still very much in the game (35-30) when Brigham Young suddenly broke the game wide open. The buster-upper: Roland Minson, 22, a spring-legged six-footer and the smallest regular on the floor. In three minutes, using its famed fingertip passing and its whippet speed, Brigham Young ran up 15 points, nine of them by Jack Rabbit Minson. During this spree, Dayton was so intent on stopping Minson that it scored precisely one point for Dayton...