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...famed "fog of war" that envelops most military actions did not obscure the Korean struggle. More than most wars, it had a plain and definite shape, determined by three obvious factors: 1) overwhelming Communist superiority in the early stages; 2) long-range superiority of the U.N. forces, especially in weapons, air power and sea power, and 3) Douglas MacArthur's vast superiority over the enemy generals in strategic planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Was the War | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...booth will be constructed diagonally opposite the present one. It will be 18 feet high, with a played sides for the protection of the officer inside. Sporting large plate-glass windows, with loudspeakers on top, the proposed structure will look somewhat like a land-locked lighthouse with fog horns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Square Gets New Cop Box | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Magnavox Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). In the Fog, with Frances L. Sullivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...only approve," wrote Pascal in one of the more peevish passages of his Pensées, "of those who groan aloud in their search for the truth." Literature, from Greek tragedy to T. S. Eliot, has been vastly benefited by truth-seekers who could out-groan a Maine fog horn; but it has also had to put up with a host of novelists and poets who forget that the surest way to ruin a good groan is to work it to death and stuff its remains into the machinery of their writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Say Ah-h-h! | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...male moth can find a female-even at night, through fog, and as far as seven miles away-is a favorite puzzle of entomologists. The male moth flies unerringly downwind, which rules out the possibility that the female sends out odorous particles. In the latest Interchemical Review (research house organ of Interchemical Corp.), John P. Duane and John E. Tyler, both of Interchemical, suggest a solution of the puzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Love Song | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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