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...statements have more power to depress the average U.S. businessman, beset as he is by a daily avalanche of forms, reports and correspondence, than the late "Engine Charlie" Wilson's axiom that "nothing takes place in the world of government or business that is not motivated by a piece of paper." Every repetition of this dictum, however, brings a beatific smile to the face of bulky, deliberate Milferd Aaron Spayd, 61, of Dayton, Ohio. Thanks to U.S. industry's ever deeper entrapment in paperwork, Spayd's Standard Register Co. has surged from onetime bankruptcy to buoyant prosperity...
...conference-table combat waged over the past nine months, Joxe consistently maintained a leisurely manner. Unlike many French diplomats, he believes in frankness, is fond of quoting Aristide Briand's axiom: "When circumstances are really important, one must say the same thing to everybody." He refused to give way on the key issues: continued French ownership of Sahara oil and stringent guarantees for Algeria's European minority. The first round of talks broke up last June after only three weeks; a second conference, in July, foundered after only eight days. When the Algerians cried that "the debate...
...turn would undoubtedly get a more respectful hearing for his uncompromising stand if in a year of fighting, his U.S.-equipped army had not been badly whipped by the much smaller Russian-equipped Pathet Lao. A U.S. official gave his version of General Walter Bedell Smith's diplomatic axiom: "You don't win at the conference table what you've lost on the battlefield...
...Beaurevers; the magistrate, influenced by Beaurevers' power, is all for clapping the girl in jail, case unheard. But his young assistant (William Shatner), fired with ideals of justice, insists on investigating. What ensues, in judicial quarters of dilapidated grandeur, is an intimately candid inquiry based on the French axiom that discussion is the better part of indiscretion. It turns out that the Beaurevers belong to a low-fidelity set. Husband Benjamin (Walter Matthau) has been frolicking with Josefa himself after banking hours, and Wife Dominique (Louise Troy) has been slipping with her husband's best friend. The question...
...suite. The annual radio and television World Series sponsorship costs the Gillette Co., the world's largest razor-blade manufacturer, a flat $3,000,000, whether the series goes four or seven games. "You root for anyone you want for the first game,'' is a Gillette axiom. "After that, you root for the underdog so that Gillette can get its full seven games worth of advertising...