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Unlike Monopoly, which gets parlor fun out of make-believe real estate transactions, Manchester cannot be bought at the nearest toy store. It is produced, under contract, for various business, government and educational institutions by Abt Associates, a 20 month-old fledgling in the Rand-type "think factory" research field. Headed by Clark Abt, 37, former advanced-systems manager at Raytheon, the Cambridge, Mass., company undertakes all sorts of computer projects, but it has made its biggest splash so far in the business of devising serious games. Its first contract was a game for the Defense Department that was aimed...
...ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
...motorist in Surrey claimed that Roberts held him up and stole his sandwiches. Fifty armed bobbies combed through Dagenham when a bus conductress reported that a passenger had dropped a pistol (which turned out to be a toy). Singer Alfred Hancock, 46, was arrested five times in one day because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling...
...wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers in his possession when the FBI arrested him in June. Yet toy-store badges could be, and sometimes were, used just as effectively as real badges. Apparently the victims were so racked by feelings of guilt that few of them had enough self-possession to challenge the blackmailers...
...Assumptions. Privity was the traditional idea that there had to be a direct relationship between two parties before there could be an "implied warranty"-or a breach of it. If a man bought a toy that later exploded in his child's face, he had a breach-ofwarranty action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach...