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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not everybody got such a kick out of platoon football as Coaches Blaik, Leahy, Waldorf and Wilkinson. Complained some old-fashioned fans: the new game turned out more specialists, but was it really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

So Vannevar Bush, boss of all U.S. scientists who worked for the Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

The Canceled Carrier. Some of what he has to say bears on the great debate in the National Military Establishment-a debate, incidentally, which he deplored as a "sorry spectacle . . . undignified, immature, disruptive and damaging to morale and to the country's safety." An all-out war in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

The Fantastic Cost. What would War III be like? Bush finds no ready answer. It would not be as easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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