ARE YOU PLAYING THE GAMES BY THE RULES IN WASHINGTON?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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requires a good deal of preparation. ..'`point somebody to ' animportant post,. ?'. adept, finding themselves accident
The Washington Post,'the Star, the letting all the columnists -speculate tally back-to back with Margie, Mc.
Now York Times, Time Newsweek, on what this appointment will mean, Namara only after a decent interval.
the New P.epublic, Look, Harper's and.':; ,.then months later appointing- some- 1:. THERE'S ONE more game which
Jiamparts are required reading, but it ?, body else. '
? .has only become popular recently
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OLD-FASHIONED parlor games, Georgetown terrace at the cocktail THEN THERE'S the continually;
according to actress Phyllis Newman, hour, rcmE]:s the Manchester Guard- '!? played Washington game of Who:,
are currently the rage among the tan bus b'-nn somewhat unflattcrino :Matters. For. this game one must bo.;
fashionable folk in Manhattan, about the handling of the Flamingo '.on 'one's toes,' quick-witted, and ut?:
No one is asked until.after dinner,' '. : Republic crisis by the CIA. .terly lacking in self-consciousness.
,because "dinner is so dissipating," I'My clear fallow," Cord will say,It consists in walking into a party,;
..and games, are played, like hiding ? , '; with a significant puff on his pipe, "I,:, and deciding Instantly, before you,
.,wedding rings and pieces of spaghetti assun' c. you have seen Yevtuchenko's 'even have your first. drink, who in:
masterwork on this subject in the 1. ~.,,:the room Is important to you for' -
around the living-room.
Well, here in Washington it. is very Trans-crinncan Review, 'Phenomen- ; :.!,?, business, social, or any other reasons.'
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itperson
that one is invited. to play ism versus Pantheism.' Otherwise; withou UeiIs ettingstobothat
formal games, though I have heard there is no use addressing yourself
'that charades are sometimes played..,' to this topic, don't you agree?" ' Newspaper people'rarely win this`
at Hickory Hill. There is .a simple -~ . One stroke, and he's won:` The via" '.' game, because the temptation to
reason for this, which is.. that `we 'tim admits defeat by inquiring how'.+` make connections with the objects
.'play so many informal before, dur? ?`. ?.his children are, and whether he's of their daily efforts proves irresist??
ing, and after dinner, we haven't ,played any tennis lately. ti. able after five minutes of chatting,
time for the other kind. witn an old friend who's not impor?_
WE HAVE ALL learned to -en o
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Quote, which to be played properly, , As suggesting that he's going to ap? ' as hostesses are generally. more
though. I'm beginning to take his view, '111-r. a iauiuu uub, says ti w D ? ; '?:, 1111b. nn,uur YV. vacuACL' is WV "II-
X: I'm sure' you saw Galbraith in the . ' hear Teddy wants to be the one to -;disputed champion at this game, liav'
New ' Yorlc ? Review'. of Books. A little `? run in '^2, and he feels if Bobby runs + ?ing read the books by Philip Geyer
piib, perhopsr but to the point. ?.` in 't38, then people will confuse {' tin, by.Rowland Evans and Roberti
Y: Not as much as Cyril Connolly tbcu,." ?!.:i'Ndvak, and by Charles Bartlett and;
in Encounter. The British have such a?? Nonsense,". says' B. "At the Harri- :.Ted Weintal, all before they were.;.
flair for this sort of thing. f .mans' last night, I. heard Bobby has published. ' -
X:. 0h, he didn't- pinpoint the prob.
i already asked Teddy to be his Sec .?'" It is'not known how she obtained
;lam half as well as Arthur Schlesinger
,
in. Playboy. rotary of State, unless Steve Smith all the manuscripts, but her repute.,
'By introducing Playboy, X has left "wants the job." tion Is so established that Sen. Clair
with absolutelyalothing to say, and. A is effectively silenced, because'' borne Pell last week sent her an ad-
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therefore won the round. The object, .':? what -you heard is a 'good deal less "...vance copy of his new book on trans-
today, t thought. + '' ' ;'I hear Bobby and Teddy are hay- before. their publication.
,s ilnporLant to add optionals. Here's a This is, translated, in Washington rx but which seems to be here to stay
typical round.: living-rooms, into the game of Who ,;That's the one about who's read
X: Lippmann was right 'on target :Knows What.
which books 'by Washington authors
of the game is to keep topping your
opponent until he is LQ\rced to change"
the gonversalion.. ? !
The most arustic practitioner. of
.-i raty who-Was recently revealed to
j have been running student ',activi-
ties elf these years for the CIA. come r;gh~ out of the horse's mouth. 'about Washington is that here, you
Let us suppose that some innocent' Py the way, why is it horses are generally get i dinner with your1'
.,.creaturecoming, upon Cord. on a sup]%osedta be so commwucative? games, as well.
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One of our favorite games is called . ' the `President's favorite game
which tt ~.? Women who wish to make a splash
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Lorraine Cooper's dinner the other ` It's all a .lot more fun, and a lot,,
cvc, i; g, the word was that we're -more fun than hiding a wedding ring';
_ .CWT in 9' ~tss a a u1 ,' -.n_ cr s Piero kf Fu-se' .^ i 3a arc's Lvw,::
?va: t . rmuda," ; ou'IL be taken lag room, whatever Phyllis Newman
ju,L as :seriously as if the rumor had : says. And tho wonderful thing
If you can say, for instance, "At ' .'an}' 'of his other friends.