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...kvestion," he continued, "reduces to a zimple two-person-zero-sum-catastrophe, in which there are three possibilities, X, Y...
...Y) The sky doesn't fall--not a catastrophe...
Three-Way Trade. Sometimes the fish baits the hook himself. While working in Washington on the U.S. budget, for example, Harvard Economist X runs into Minnesota Economist Y, who reports that Stanford Economist Z is sick of "dull" Palo Alto. Presto, X is on the phone to a close Yale friend, who jumps at the chance to sabotage those "upstart Californians." Yale grabs Stanford's Z-precisely what Z himself hoped for when he told Minnesota's Y his troubles. In return, thin-blooded Y may well quit frosty Minnesota to take over...
...specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming...
Harold C. Martin is a graduate of Hartwick College, Oneonta, N. Y. and received his Ph.D at Harvard in 1954. He is a member of both the Radcliffe and Harvard Committees one Admissions and Scholarships, the Committee on Teaching as a Career, the Bureau of Study Counsel and the Board of Freshman Advisors at Harvard...