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...technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries and as a game is not quite as interesting (because ships can't be placed on diagonals) as the traditional paper-and-pencil battleship game...
Together, Ochs and Van Anda made the Times a Victorian paradigm of probity and thoroughness, emphasizing diplomatic and national political reporting and eschewing titillating ac counts of crime and scandal. But not all crime and scandal...
Dressler said this phenomenon is similar to being able to read a string of letters such as "I saw a cat" divided differently into "Is aw ac at." In this example, as in most sentences and genetic sequences, the alternative reading is nonsense...
There is a hardhat (Clifton James) whose workaday life seems to have been as terminal as his present state. His distraught wife (Joyce Ebert) cannot ac cept her husband's imminent death...
...seldom pool their information. As a result, intelligence is spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with...