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...movement, missile fire (usually cannon, rifle or arrow), melee (close combat) and morale. Movements, for example, are executed closely to scale; players deploy their soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers clash hand to hand, another set of rules-plus the dice-decides the kill ratio. Even morale is cranked into the battle equation: special tables compute expectable reaction to adverse conditions...
...plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...
...Backgammon Book by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford. Illustrated. 224 pages. Viking. $10. Though it is illustrated with the customary attractive leaves from medieval manuscripts and Flemish paintings, this is a no-nonsense text on one of the world's most ancient and alluring dice games. Instructions and diagrams are clear. There are good sections on probabilities and such popular variations of the game as acey-deucy and chouette. Still this is one gift book that will get off the coffee table and onto the gaming board...
...conflict according to how many of the South Vietnamese are "loyal" to "us," and how much territory "they"-the NLF, the North Vietnamese, or whoever-"control." An interesting principle, this, which suggests that the Paris negotiators ought to divvy up the Vietnamese nation according to where the military dice have fallen thus far. And the underpinning of that principle is the simple, tacit fact that American armed forces have been winning in Vietnam since...
...were in full possession of a secret, but only one person has the solution-Chabrol-and he is not giving it away. Perhaps, he implies, there is more than one. Perhaps moral laws are subject to appeal. Perhaps, as Mallarme observed, "All thought emits a throw of the dice." Most film makers vainly attempt to have it both ways; Chabrol succeeds. This Man Must Die is as full of intelligence as a seminar and as suspenseful as a series of passes at Monte Carlo...