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Ripples & Barrel Rolls. Two years ago, when Hickey first came to St. Louis U., he inherited a team of St. Louis boys (all his first-team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley...
...advice to the Democrats, 59 million votes, he says, is about what the vote goal should be if potentialities are seen in historical perspective. More voters means more voters from the lower income groups which means more votes for the Democratic Party. That logic seems to be an axiom in Democratic Party circles nowadays, although it has been statistically checked only in Santa Cruz County in California by a couple of Stanford professors...
...Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over, "why not open the Opera House ... to operettas such as Porgy and Bess, Show Boat, Oklahoma! . . . There's [a] fundamental axiom of show business the Met . . . continues to overlook-a dark house doesn't make money...
...what other name could good Democrats plump for? They did not forget the ancient political axiom: you can't beat somebody with nobody. Before they ditched Truman, they had to get a new band wagon rolling. And that was a risky business. Chicago's canny little Jake Arvey was the first front-ranker willing to take the risk. "Come convention time," announced Boss Arvey, "I will vote for ... a man who can be elected. I hope General Eisenhower becomes available...
...week, both the "Cocos" and the Gaullists were against him. Their motives were different, but both attacked the centrist government to win popularity and power (Paris wiseacres predicted that De Gaulle would make his bid in March or April). The strange political bedfellowship was caused by the old political axiom that you can always catch a vote by attacking higher taxes...