Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times also ran a picture of Pammie Phillips, a typical housewife. "It took Pammie Phillips," said the paper, "eight days to learn she was a Times reader. She had her first real chance to read the Times while her son Sammy was occupied discovering how to put sand in his navel." Next year, presumably, it'll be Sammy's turn to be a Times reader...
...uptight head of the FBR who exhorts his faceless men (all under 5 ft.): "Kill him . . . the nation expects it ... think of your mothers." Coburn's most dangerous and ingenious pursuer, though, turns out to be an automated phone company and-the film's best real-life touch-it seems to be winning...
...planning period in between each step of the game, and this is when the TV audience gets to take part. Questions are posed by the Transanian ministers, and the political elite is asked to phone in their decisions. Transania generally follows their advice, making them active participants in a real sense. And the television viewers get almost as involved as the players: the one time when their advice was disregarded, they phoned in and demanded impeachment of their ministers...
Gordon then explained how the historical perspective restricts the possible outcomes of the game: "The situation must be analyzed with respect to what kinds of actions the real countries involved were reasonably open to take. Transania stood for Russia, New Zenith for the U.S., Nordo for India, Inland for North Korea, Outland for South Korea, and Hamil was Red China. Even though there were six teams, each with four policy choices, there actually were only ten or twelve separate possible outcomes...
Gordon defended his game by reiterating that simulation is speculative history, and that nothing can be done out of the historical perspective. In real situations there are often only a few alternatives open to the involved countries, and it is this which puts such great pressure on diplomats; in order to simulate the real situation, there must be some restraints...