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CHESSMANSHIP. The late Stephen Potter, Field Martial of Gamesmanship, conceived this classic chess ploy before Bobby Fischer pushed his first pawn. Challenged, the Summer Gamesman makes three random moves and resigns...
When Robert Downey, Army private first class, was tossed into the stockade after one of his three courts-martial in as many years, he won a reprieve for one day only. The Yankees had come to Okinawa to play some exhibition games, and Downey had the reputation of being a good fastballer. He pitched three innings. Then Yogi Berra stepped up to bat, swatted one into the ocean, and Downey was back in stir...
...politeness on the part of the previously hostile East German border guards. Instead of their martial jackboots, the guards have changed to civilian-style shoes. There was a reassuring absence of submachine guns...
...this non-play, Gore Vidal rather hysterically strafes some of his pet skunks. In order of defamation, their names are Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and William F. Buckley Jr. Nixon is submitted to a kind of kangaroo court-martial, but Vidal is not interested in a dialogue of viewpoints. Instead, he offers a nonstop diatribe, vitriolic and at times caustically amusing. Nixon is so one-sided that it has the curious effect of creating a certain sympathy for its leading character...
...high, and so has the balance of payments surplus. Tourism will set new records this year despite inadequate hotel space, and a massive suspension bridge is being built across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Social life in the cities is gay, albeit a trifle restricted. Ankara hostesses, aware that under martial law no one is allowed on the city's streets after the 1:30 a.m. curfew, always make certain that their parties end before that time...