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THERE was more than a little skepticism last spring when U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the Soviets "have a new swing-wing bomber under development" with "intercontinental range capability." Cynics pooh-poohed the "Big Swinger" as a propaganda ploy for the Air Force, which was trying to convince Congress that the U.S. should go ahead with the development of its own swing-wing supersonic bomber, the B1. But the doubts have proved unjustified. The new Soviet strategic bomber, officially designated "Backfire" by NATO, has been spotted and tracked during a number of test flights from the Ramenskoye...
...item, she was following what has become a kind of minor tradition: the use of TIME's name or style to make a fictional point. Authors of movies, plays and novels have worked TIME stories into their plots to show, for instance, that a character has arrived. That ploy was used in the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday and in the current motion picture Who Is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those to things about me? The device is neither new nor unique to American writers; Graham Greene, the British author, used it ten years ago in describing...
Psychopolitical Ploy. Many conservative Republicans who abhor controls would welcome decisive measures instead of soothing words. The best evidence suggests that Nixon and his advisers believe that their economic course is right and that things will eventually improve. But the suspicion that their public optimism is a psychopolitical ploy will not go away. Said Nancy Travis, a secretary in Santa Monica: "The Administration is so worried about being reelected, it's immobilized. They seem to be afraid of alienating anybody." The result could be alienating almost everybody...
...Dinh Diem, declared himself a candidate, and 28 Assemblymen just as suddenly endorsed him, thus leaving an insufficient number to validate Ky's candidacy. Even before the filing deadline passed, Tarn dropped from the race. Few observers believe the Tam candidacy was anything other than a Thieu ploy to block...
...Dartmouth History Professor Jonathan Mirsky leaped into the water. He was desperately trying to deliver to the Chinese a gift from a group of Maoist Japanese students. The patrol boat veered away. That was the closest Mirsky had got to China in 13 years of studying it. His ploy was the most bizarre in a long series of attempts by American students of China to make some sort of contact with the People's Republic. Two weeks ago, however, the first group of serious U.S. China scholars to visit the mainland since the Communist takeover in 1949 emerged from...