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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...
...experts are agreed on one point: the next war in the air will not be fought with the tactics or weapons of the last one. Given a few years to develop weapons now in the experimental stage, airmen will make the aerial gunfights of World War II as obsolete as cavalry raids...
Aunt Anita, a sweet and shrewd old lady who wears fussy, turn-of-the-century clothes, has given away something like $10 million in her time. She put $2,000,000 into Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School, sent $100 to the family of each of the in victims of the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, tossed some $50,000 into Wallace's campaign collection plates last fall, and donated a round $1,000,000 to endow the new, leftist Foundation for World Government...
...showers, a good cafeteria and a fair-sized library. King George's Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards to "equalize" facilities...
Superman & Rosie O'Grady. Berle's own gifts for TV should be plain even to his most diehard detractors. His early start as an entertainer has given him a unique combination of talents: he has an old trouper's know-how and a newcomer's vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist...