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This grim Beverly Hills hyperbole is the characteristic verbal coin of a man who is the quintessence of movie-industry cynicism and success. Bill Dozier, 60, started in Hollywood in 1935 as an agent for Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, and has since been a top production executive at several movie studios and the executive producer of several TV programs, including You Are There, Studio One and Batman. Such is his reputation for plain talk that one-fifth of the registrants in his Monday-night course are not U.C.L.A. undergraduates but Hollywood directors, producers and pressagents...
...Nero (A.D. 54-68) after they ran into-but failed to recognize-their balance of payments problems. Founded on plunder, Rome as an empire lacked the manufacturing, agriculture and commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also the wherewithal to resist barbarians at its borders...
...with McCarthy all week, while Boston Bureau Chief Christopher Cory reported on the New Hampshire primary. Chicago Bureau Chief Loye Miller went to Minnesota to gather background material on McCarthy, and Correspondents Richard Saltonstall and John Stacks covered the story in Washington. Over on the Kennedy side of the coin were the Washington Bureau's Hugh Sidey, Neil MacNeil and Bonnie Angelo (who also filed on Mrs. McCarthy...
Flip of the Coin...
...loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice that occasionally the waiters cordon the room off, let the girls dash in for a quick peek...