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...From the Baltic to the Bohemian Forest, some 750,000 NATO troops (190,000 of them supplied by the U.S. forces in West Germany) face approximately 850,000 troops from the Warsaw Pact nations, though not all are of top quality. The Communists hold an even greater superiority in tactical aircraft (4,300 v. 1,890) and in tanks (about 19,000 v. 6,500). Despite the antitank missiles the Arabs and Israelis used so effectively against each other last year, military planners still consider the tank the key weapon in ground combat. The Soviets have both a new medium...
When Atlantic City threatened last year to change the names of its Baltic and Mediterranean avenues, Parker sprang to eloquent defense of his firm's best-selling game, Monopoly (whose board squares are named after real estate in the seaside resort), and succeeded in preserving not only the town's street names but a 38-year-old American tradition as well...
...most people, Park Place, Marvin Gardens and Baltic Avenue are just spaces on the Monopoly board-unlucky ones, to be sure, if occupied by money-gobbling hotels placed there by an opponent. But to Economist Ralph Anspach, those properties are part of a game that subtly encourages young minds to accept the evils of monopolization. "Some kids grow up not knowing that monopolies are illegal," he complains. In counterattack, Anspach and his 14-year-old son Mark have created Anti-Monopoly, a new, sophisticated board game that recently went on sale in the San Francisco Bay Area...
...Although the hamburger originated in medieval Europe, as raw beef shredded by a dull knife. Merchants from the Baltic carried the dish to Hamburg, where it is still popular both raw and cooked. German immigrants brought it, fried and bunned, to South St. Louis, and introduced it to the rest of the U.S. at the St. Louis World's Fair...
...home, the new cruisers are getting ready to join them. Lighting Designer Len Thornback, 46, and his schoolteacher wife Jane, 48, have al ready moved aboard their Westsail at Newport Beach, Calif. "In a year or so," says Thornback, "we'll simply leave. First the Mediterranean and the Baltic. After that, we don't care where...