Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider this scenario: The people are thrown together against their wills, trapped in colossal, modernistic buildings on a landscape devoid of trees. The lights are always lit. Pavement stretches everywhere. Cars and buses and trains and aircraft are useless; there is no way out. No darkness. No silence. No beds. No escape from an endless series of broadcast announcements, no avoiding the silly, circular games of other people's children. There are queues for food, queues for asking questions, queues for liquor-and finally queues for nothing, because there is nothing left. Then there is only boredom...
Packaged and Shipped. Perhaps it will all begin with a simple and foreseeable act of God-say a heavy snowstorm in New York City. There, last week, at the world's largest international airport, the scenario came true. Even at its best, an airport terminal seems inhuman-a monstrous machine disguised as a building and designed to process people and baggage. To the machine, there is no difference between men, women, children, suitcases, pets. All are collected, screened according to route, classified by status, divided into units of the right size, packaged in aircraft-and shipped. When 17 inches...
This Catch-68 scenario might have been hilarious as fiction, but it did not amuse the court's presiding admirals. As Rear Admiral Marshall White told Johnson: "You had a contingency plan to use forces that did not exist." His face flushing, Johnson admitted that this was so. He noted, however, that even if he had had the ships and planes at his disposal, he could not have dispatched them until a request had filtered up through the Air Force and Navy chains of command to the Pentagon and, presumably, the White House...
Some Soviet thinkers have even begun to play with scenario building, the concept that Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute and others have used so effectively. Arbatov himself, however, dismisses comparisons between his group and U.S. "think tanks." As one of his assistants explained: "We are dialecticians, not formal logicians...
...handiest frontier, while the Westerner waited 24 hours, then reported to his embassy or the local police that his passport had been "lost" or "stolen." Huivenaar promised his victims that temporary documents permitting them to go home would be is sued without question. But all too often the scenario would go awry...