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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...could play Nonplany, in which participants must act like members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Other possibilities: Generation Gap (gain points by making the adversary feel middle-aged and irrelevant), Silent Majority (you win by giving the best impression of Spiro Agnew, lose if you sound more like Eric Sevareid), Academic (up for snagging a federal consulting job, down if students smoke your cigars). There could even be Presidency, which no one could possibly win if he was once defeated for the office and then lost the governorship of California...
...Further development of raw social statistics and "social indicators." These indexes would parallel economic yardsticks, measuring such qualities of American life as the amount of opportunity and the learning produced by education. They would encourage sound research, and provide gauges of how well Government policies are working...