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...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...
Much of the price pressure comes from farmers themselves, who need bigger farms to make their costly equipment pay. As a result, over the last decade, the price of farm land has climbed 60% faster than farm income, thus confounding the economic axiom that the value of land depends on its profit potential. Farm prosperity-profits reached a 13-year high in 1965, and this year will surpass $15 billion-and the possibility of growing export crops under the Administration's "food for freedom" program also spur expansion...
There's an axiom in the National Football League that a rookie defensive back costs his team at least a touchdown per year. The proverb nearly came true in a topsy-turvy way for Dartmouth on Saturday; Harvard sophomore corner back Bill Cobb almost cost the Green not one touchdown...
...Hagerty, now an ABC vice president: "Speak only when the President can't speak for himself." Moyers has done so with impressive authority, thanks to Johnson's carte blanche: "My desk is your beat." When in doubt, he says, he tries to heed his father's axiom: "Tell the truth when you can, and when you can't, don't tell a lie." Though he is himself a highly competent reporter, he is not without critics. As Reedy warned him, "This is one job where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter...
...beginning, it has often been said, augurs the end. Certainly the axiom proved true of the New York World's Fair. It opened to disappointing crowds on a cold, rainy day in April 1964, with militant CORE picket lines all but blocking major avenues and hecklers disrupting President Johnson's send-off speech. Last week it closed with a frightening scene straight out of a Federico Fellini film fantasy...