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...least, they're on their way. Back in the early '60s, when Robert MacNamara was trying to run the Defense Department the same way he had run the Ford Motor Company--at a profit--"computer simulations" of wartime situations were all the rage. The generals and admirals and Cabinet members would huddle together with groups of high-power academics--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty here, always comes to mind as the prime example--and then they would all play high-voltage computer games to test out any theories they had managed to devise. But then one day, some...
...lose a great deal of their appeal when some of the contestants decide to play for keeps. That is exactly what could happen when the Pentagon brass realize they do not have to fool around with numbers anymore, because all of assudden they have the boys back in uniform. MacNamara and Bundy may be gone, but no one has to tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff what to do with their neat battle plans and shiny weapon systems. They already know that war is good business; they are just waiting for everyone else to agree with them again...
...necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort of corn-goddess." Of her marriage to Dylan, Caitlin wrote in Leftover Life to Kill, "We lived almost separate lives, though physically close...
Luis Escobar will speak on "The Borrowing and External Debt of the Developing Countries" at the Center for International Affairs from 4-6 p.m. He's a economist from the World Bank, Bob MacNamara's club which, a few years ago, cut-off credit to Allende's government in Chile. Escobar should be fairly interesting as he has done some credible research in the area...
Lamented Selectman Martin H. MacNamara: "Apathy has crawled back into the system." Said local P.T.A. Representative Edward Mclntyre: "We should have invited Billy Carter." But for at least one Clintonian, what loomed largest was a possible reproach from on high. Said he: "I just hope Jimmy doesn't find out." On Thursday Clinton tried again, and this time drew 650. One reason: the local newspaper's warning that "TV will be there even...