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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...
TIME'S Aug. 6 article, "How Are Your Teeth?" quotes Dr. Hans Neumann: "The chewing of pencils, leather, or pieces of wood by children should be regarded as a wholesome instinct...
Surveying medical progress (or the lack of it) in dealing with tooth decay, in the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Neumann finds a big hidden cavity in every current theory and practice. A well-balanced diet is not the answer: some of the world's worst-fed peoples have the best teeth. Vitamins have no observable effect. Dr. Neumann rules out heredity, climate and sunshine. The case for fluorine (TIME, April 9), he believes, is not proved...
...thing that always seems to go with sound teeth is vigorous chewing and tough food, Dr. Neumann finds. Wherever cutlery and good table manners appear, teeth decay. His prescription for postponing tooth decay: chew hard on tough, sour bread of the kind made by European peasants. Better still, let children chew raw sugar cane...
Since neither black bread nor sugar cane can be found in U.S. metropolitan areas, Dr. Neumann concludes: "The chewing of pencils, leather or pieces of wood by children should be regarded as a wholesome instinct and not as a neurotic trait...