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...their advisors: he can't discover the process by which they determine their opening positions or even faithfully describe their forces, since no one really knows what they have. America's open approach to the nuclear negotiating table allowed Talbott to write the best nuclear handbook for the layman, to conduct the most exhaustive research available on the nuclear negotiating process, and to one-sidedly trash the Reagan Administration's approach. This mixture of good information and slanted analysis makes Deadly Gambits worthless, and even dangerous, as a guideline for the U.S. government and the American voter...
...difficulty in taking stock of this work is the intrinsic inaccessibility of psychiatry to the layman. Who really knows what can be in the mind of a child? Our understanding of the difficulty of knowing this, knowing this in a real sense, causes us to sympathize with the efforts, however clumsy, to get closer to an understanding of the bomb's psychological impact. The danger is in generalizing from this inadequate research and using this research to further a political agenda which allows its adherents to make often-outrageous moral claims upon the citizenry...
...certified knowledge, one may feel a tendency to distrust experts of all sorts, and experience a nagging itch to start questioning authority. A reader may even suspect that his opinion is worth just as much as that of any horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
BLACK BEARS-bordick singled. Lashua grounded into a fielder's choice. Layman struck out. Lashua stole second. Paul singled, scoring Lashua. Paul reaching third on an error. Reynolds singled, scoring paul. Bernardo struck out. Two runs, three hits, one left, one error...
BLACK BEARS-Kare and McInnis singled, kane stopping at second. Hackett bunted the runners over. Bordick singled, scoring Kane, McInnis stopping at third. Lashua grounded to the pitcher. Layman flied to center. One run, three hits, two left...