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...behavior pattern first synthesized by British Humorist Stephen Potter in his classic manual, subtitled "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" (TIME, Sept...
...Manual of Cold War. Kennan, who speaks fluent Russian, went to Moscow in 1933 with Ambassador William Bullitt (as Third Secretary) and has at various times spent five years in the Russian capital...
...coached Ambassadors W. Averell Harriman and Bedell Smith. Back in Washington, he became head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1947. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X," he wrote, in Foreign Affairs, his famous article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Destined to be the field manual of cold-war diplomacy, the article outlined the "containment" policy which has been the basis of U.S. strategy. "Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world," said Mr. X, "is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counter force at a series of constantly...
...successful scientists. Harvard-bred artists usually developed out of students with medium fleshiness and below-par muscles. The heavy but muscular students went in for the practical callings of engineering or business and generally succeeded, while lighter-bodied competitors dropped out. A few of the Harvard men sank to manual labor, but only the poorer-muscled ones stayed at that level all their lives. The better-muscled soon rose to positions where they did not depend on their muscles...
...housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...