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...allies is that increased complexity of weapons usually means a decrease in reliability. Service rivalries and political pressure do not help. Getting the bugs out of new machinery may take years, a-which time the molds of obsolescence start to sprout. Dunnigan, author of The Complete Wargames Handbook, a consultant to the Defense Department and lecturer at U.S. service academies, has facts and figures in reserve. The Soviet Union puts 14% of its gross national product into arms. The U.S. spends 7% of its larger G.N.P., and Japan less than 2% of the earned wealth from its consumer-products society...
Hemenway Gymnasium is being invaded. At first sight it looks like a preppy convention from a page of Lisa Birnbach's "Preppy Handbook...
...adjusted and as middle class as anyone else. Thus Zack, after leaving Claire (Kate Jackson) for a muscular writer, eventually settles down with a lawyer. They sit around, one reading his medical journals, the other studying legal briefs, both looking as if they had just swallowed The Official Preppy Handbook. Claire ends up married to an unflighty sort with a child ascamper at her skirts. Everybody feels much better, and all because they were patient and tolerant and understanding with one another...
Official drug rules, as specified in the Handbook for Students, state that the University will take "severe disciplinary action" in cases involving "the sale and traffic of drugs" or "danger to the Harvard community...
After each chapter, the authors put together short "style quotient tests," so that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...