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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual fascination with the details of large-scale war--missiles, megatons, pre-emptive strikes, typhoid, tidal waves, firestorms--is not so out of place. For one thing, nearly all the players at Logos have equally strange obsessions outside of football. For another, Gary's own is shared by Major Staley, who teaches "Aspects of Modern War" in the Air ROTC program. And as Gary tells the story of the team's season (which peaks at the big game with West Centrex Biotechnical), it becomes evident that the Logos College football team--and the entire school--is dogged by encroaching madness...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: "It's Only A Game, But It's the Only Game" | 6/14/1972 | See Source »

With almost catatonic coolness, Gary recalls the season mainly in brief episodes, told without emotion as though he does not understand their significance. As he tells the history of that year, it seems as though one of the nuclear board-games he plays with Lieutenant Staley may come to life and flash the whole struggling crew to atoms in the puff of a mushroom cloud...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: "It's Only A Game, But It's the Only Game" | 6/14/1972 | See Source »

...Kennedy dispatched advisors to Vietnam, adopting the recommendations of General Maxwell Taylor and Stanford economist Eugene Staley. U.S. advisors would arm the South Vietnamese army and help them with three objectives...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...Kennedy dispatched advisors to Vietnam, adopting the recommendations of General Maxwell Taylor and Stanford economist Eugene Staley. U. S. advisors would arm the South Vietnamese army and help them with three objectives...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Kennedy dispatched advisors to Vietnam, adopting the recommendations of General Maxwell Taylor and Stanford economist Eugene Staley. U. S. advisors would arm the South Vietnamese army and help them with three objectives...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: From the Vietnamese We'll Have to Learn To Create a Society In Which To Live | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

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