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...Asians hope that a stability of sorts will be brought about by what Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam describes as a "fourhanded poker game." He means a balance of interests between the four major powers that will cancel out the dominance of any single nation. For example, Asian diplomats envision an abiding U.S. interest in the area that will continue to compete with Japan's economic power. They see the growing Soviet trade and naval presence as a counterbalance to China...
...call from his wife interrupts a budding liaison. The parents join a fic- titious society, S.P.F.C. (Society for Parents of Fugitive Children), experiment with marijuana and make even bigger asses of themselves. The daughter arrives home that night to see her parents, stoned on weed and booze, playing strip poker with another couple from the S.P.F.C. So it goes, one uninspired variation after another...
...Government major. Bernhard plans to return home and do social work after graduation. "That's if I can stay out of the draft." he explained. "I may not know how to play poker, but coming up number two in the lottery is just not coming through with all the cards...
...merger plan oppose it because they feel Radcliffe has won no significant concessions from Harvard. Economic security is not enough, they say, to justify the destruction of Radcliffe as a separate institution. As Deborah Batts '68, former president of RUS, put it: "This is the last poker game Radcliffe will play with Harvard -if they don't drive a hard bargain now, they never will. I don't think Radcliffe girls will get anything out of this plan. But they will give up Radcliffe's flexibility and personableness for an impersonal bureaucracy...
George E. Allen, lawyer, raconteur and poker-playing intimate of Presidents (F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower), has made some money in the stock market over the years. Not, however, on any inside tips from his friends. His secret: Allen's Law of Politico-Market Cycles...