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When an airplane hits another airplane in flight, there are no survivors. This axiom of aeronautic safety has been demonstrated most graphically twice in the past two years: first when 128 people were killed in a collision over the Grand Canyon in June, 1956, and then last month, when an airliner and a jet trainer collided over the Nevada desert...
...individuality and actively seeks it out. Social insulation, a striving for comfortable homogeneous groups, the frank institutionalization of arbitrary and unreflective prejudices--these do not contribute to that aim. Even if the racial criterion were eliminated, the general principle of an illfounded sort of discrimination would remain as an axiom of Princeton's entire social structure...
...inquiring about diagnosis (26), present status (34) and treatment prescribed (46). Doctors have long sought simplified, standardized forms (some have even printed their own), but most insurance companies refuse to budge. Smaller companies seem particularly addicted to longer questionnaires ("The smaller the firm, the bigger the form," is an axiom in the profession). Doctors are also annoyed by some companies which, when they are unsatisfied with physicians' replies, corral neighbors to report on patients in an effort to avoid paying claims...
...hemispheric axiom has it that when a dictator falls afoul of Washington, his opponents are emboldened to try to topple him. This year, Trujillo is in bad grace with the U.S., which officially suspects that the Dominicans hired U.S. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy to carry out the airplane-kidnaping of Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez from Manhattan 16 months ago. But to Trujillo's satisfaction, the axiom has not worked. The Dominicans are as docile as ever. The educated few who know of the Galindez-Murphy case (in some instances from Puerto Rican radio broadcasts) publicly refuse...
...Ohio, five-time Governor Frank Lausche once again proved the truth of the local axiom that "nobody likes Lausche but the people" by capturing for the Democrats the state's second Senate seat, defeating a hard-working latter-day Ikeman, Senator George Bender...