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Setting up an axiom for herself, she decided never to stay at home and be depressed about not working. Instead she would go to the vast Manhattan offices of the M.C.A. talent agency and be depressed there. "I would put on my most Villagey clothes-and cry loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked...
...axiom was one reason that lean, lively Rupert C. Thompson Jr., 58, accepted an invitation seven years ago to succeed Royal Little as head of Rhode Island's vast Textron Inc. Whenever bankers run a company, so went the axiom, the company goes to pot; Thompson, who had spent 28 years in New England banking, wanted to prove that it isn't so. As chairman, he completed Textron's move out of low-profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines...
Thanks to greater use of fertilizer, in combination with better seeds and pesticides, an acre that yielded 46 bu. of corn in the 1950s is now good for 64 bu. To demonstrate their axiom that $1 worth of fertilizer adds $3 in crop value, salesmen like to plant test plots along heavily trafficked highways in farm areas. Says Marketing Director J. P. Ekberg of Olin Mathieson, which operates the world's biggest fertilizer plant just outside Houston: "When the corn is twice as high as the corn growing next to it by the Fourth of July, people can easily...
...football axiom, based on a wealth of empirical evidence, says that a team cannot score when it does not have the ball. It follows that a team which consistently manages to lose the ball after it takes possession will have trouble winning many games...
This examination of his policies, suggests why, to many Americans, Republican and Democrat alike, Goldwater seems as radical as Norman Thomas. His fundamental axiom comes straight from 18th and 19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times...