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...that will take two full days to play. It will give seven players practice in every phase of bank activity, will have them investing in imaginary but typical stocks. Other Abt games are Adman, Automation and one meant to give businessmen a better knowledge of a union's viewpoint by making them play labor negotiators in bargaining sessions. A few company managers have even asked Abt for games that would constructively enliven dull directors' meetings...
...best-liked foreign diplomats. Last week on a farewell visit to Washington he proposed a reduction on Ivory Coast import tariffs in return for increased U.S. purchases of Ivorian products. He was also casting about for increased U.S. capital investment in the Ivory Coast. From a U.S. viewpoint, the generous "tax holidays" the Ivory Coast is willing to grant in return for investments make the idea attractive. But there is an Ivorian benefit too: every new U.S. investor makes Houphouet-Boigny a little more independent of his French advisers...
Responding to concern over a nuclear confrontation in South Vietnam, Halperin said that the expansion of Vietnam into nuclear war was not a major Administration concern. "Form the European, Russian, and American viewpoint, we are very far from a nuclear...
During their brief rest stops, members of the walk tried to persuade hecklers to change their viewpoint about war. In response, they were hostilely disputed and often taunted. Said one teenager from Dorchester, "It [the war in Vietnam] is just like when you have a fight with a gang. They stab you and you want to stay them back...
...Penance, for example, was occasionally administered by laymen well into the Middle Ages, while up to 314 A.D. deacons rather than priests sometimes celebrated the Eucharist. Even today laymen can validly baptize when no priest is around. Thus, concludes Van Beeck, Protestant clergymen may well be, from a Catholic viewpoint, "extraordinary ministers" of the sacraments for their own churches, whose good faith, sound doctrine, and correct spiritual intentions fulfill the essential conditions for validity...