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...Manners is both pithy and practical. Under the heading When You and Your Ex Are Invited to the Same Party, she quotes a friend: "If we wanted to go to parties together, we'd still be married." In fact, Ford tactics often reflect the celebrated advice of Mr. Punch to a young person contemplating marriage: "Don't." Charlotte's web of don'ts includes, with some reservations: rigid enforcement of "house rules" for weekend guests; bedroom segregation of unmarried lovers; gossiping about mutual friends and former loved ones; serving drugs at a party...
...brushfire war and the lightning intervention. But it has requested draft registration anyway under the influence of a doctrine it calls "the one-and-a-half war theory," tested in 1978 in the largest simulation of a world war ever. The computer assumed a global one-two punch from the Soviet Union: a move into some secondary theater of war--like, say, the Persian Gulf--pinning down America's most mobile and effective forces, followed by a massive assault in Western Europe. This half-war followed by all-out war apparently scared Pentagon analysts, who found American military manpower...
...disaster of Iowa has shot through his campaign--softening up the tough old man and leaving him wide open for a knockout punch. But Iowa may not have turned out the way it did if Reagan had stepped on the brakes, mingled with the crowds more often, and at the very least, stopped speeding long enough to participate in the Republican debate in Des Moines in January...
Bush's New Hampshire nemesis is irascible, archconservative William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. Though the state's largest daily has lost some of its clout, it still packs a powerful below-the-belt punch. Scarcely an edition goes by without Loeb's patting Reagan on the back while he attacks Kennedy and Bush. Contending in a frontpage article that ex-CIA agents are working in Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed...
...mayor threw open the doors of City Hall and Cantabrigians gathered inside yesterday to sip punch and munch Danish pastry, all to mark the birthday of General George Washington...