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Simulated Nations. Wright-Patterson's electronic "air war simulator," developed by Brigadier General Leighton I. Davis, head of the Air Force's Institute of Technology, is based on a rarefied kind of mathematics: the Von Neumann theory of games. It is essentially an analog computer (a tangle of vacuum tubes) that can be set up to simulate two warring nations, each with its cities, factories, fuel dumps, pipelines, air bases, stocks of bombs and fleets of bombers and fighters. All these elements are linked together electronically through the computing circuits. Damage to an "airplane plant" reduces the replacement...
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...
Scheduled for mixed doubles today are: Hatton-Peck; Sonnabend-Patterson; Levinson-Davidson...
United's President William Patterson, who complained bitterly that United already pays the highest wages of any domestic U.S. line, was willing to talk pay raises, but not "increased productivity" bonuses. Said he: "I will not saddle this business with the same featherbedding practices that ruined the railroads and would ruin the airlines...
Buildings shuddered and windows rattled in & around Richmond, Ind. (pop. 40,000) one afternoon last week as 70 silvery F-84 Thunderjets of the Strategic Air Command streaked overhead. The planes had just taken off from Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, about 45 miles away, were climbing on the second leg of a 1,220-mile training flight to Michigan. People on the ground saw several of the planes enter a thunderhead, flash out into the clear again. Suddenly, a series of explosions seemed to rip through the formations. Within seconds, eight planes had crashed to earth...