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Simultaneously, high White House and Pentagon officials periodically met for Strangelovian "Sigma Games" in the Pentagon. There, McGeorge Bundy, General Earle Wheeler and General Curtis LeMay, among others, devised ploy and counterploy for a bombing scenario with equally negative results. After 21 years of air strikes in the North, a follow-up survey by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze proved the predictions correct; but it was another year before the bombing was stopped. RUSSIAN SNUB. American diplomats tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to secure Soviet assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message...
...many social circumstances not being on time can be a very useful ploy. With a dramatically ostentatious late arrival, a person can virtually guarantee that he will be noticed by other guests or colleagues. It is hard to make a grand entrance if you are the first to arrive. Conversely, lateness can be used as a cover-up for shyness. A bashful latecomer may hope that he will not be noticed, slipping into the room quietly, like a guilty Ariel, and hiding himself in the crowd. There are other advantages as well. Since most parties have dull beginnings, the late...
...cutting started two weeks ago when the Belgian government ordered its state-controlled Sabena airlines to adopt a new "student fare" of $220 round trip between New York and Brussels. The action, an ingenious ploy to lure passengers to Sabena, has brought price competition to the cartelized International Air Transport Association. Like all members of IATA, Sabena is not normally permitted to raise or lower fares unilaterally-except in response to government orders. The rules also permit other airlines that fly the same routes to adopt similar prices in order to compete. Pan Am, the only U.S. carrier with direct...
Agro-fraud was conceived by sharpies intelligent enough to understand the Common Market's crazily complex and loophole-perforated farm regulations. The ploy involves one or both of two operations: illegally claiming the subsidies paid by the EEC on exports of farm products to countries outside the Six, and dodging the EEC's stiff tariffs on imports. The subsidies* and tariffs are intended to equalize Common Market commodity prices with world prices, which are generally lower. In agro-fraud, the trick is to move products across borders under the wrong label...
...another country, responsible to a different constituency, Martin King perhaps would have been less vulnerable to Hoover's ploy, but he was in puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King...