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...toy shelves of any large department store these days are stacked high with tactical games of war, sports and business, all with complex rules designed to reduce the element of chance and create opportunities for individual strategy. The latest additions to the list are three new political games with definite election-year appeal. In some ways, their verisimilitude to the realities of real life politics is downright cynical. The best candidate is not always the winner; sometimes it is the candidate with the most money...
Although Tate is sceptical about the poet-activist ("Our friend Shelley thought if he put those tracts he wrote in toy boats in Hyde Park, and people read them, a great revolution would take place!"), he does include social criticism as part of his responsibility as man and poet. For him, I'll Take My Stand was as much a defense of poetry as a defense of the South...
...military with anti-Americanism. He has a right to voice his opinions. But to dress up and play soldier and to brand and label is uncalled for. Edwin Newman handled the situation with tact, and rather than let Mr. Jessel pretend to march, he took away his toy drum...
When Senator Henry Martin Jackson, 59, began to toy with the idea of a candidacy last spring, he was rated as having little better than an outside chance for the vice-presidential nomination, and virtually none for No. 1. Since then, the Washington Democrat has moved up remarkably fast. There are still few shrewd politicians of either party who see Jackson as the 1972 Democratic nominee; he is barely visible in the national polls, registering only...
...everything turned out to his satisfaction. The conglomerate negotiations broke down, and CRM President John Veronis and Board Chairman Nicolas Charney quit their positions. With financial help from Louis Marx Jr., son of the toy magnate, and Dan W. Lufkin, a Wall Street broker, they bought the Norton Simon package as individuals for an estimated $5,000,000. That convinced Cousins he could get along with his new owners. "I rather like this display of gizzard," he said happily. "I can't turn away from anyone who believes in the Saturday Review as much as that...