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...Maxim. Morrison's medicine has attracted industry to New Orleans, prompted private capital to construct 25 major buildings in eleven years, raised property values in once dilapidated areas from 95? a square foot to $25. But it has done something even more important. Morrison next year is an odds-on favorite to win a fourth term, is being talked about as a potential governor of Louisiana or U.S. Senator. His success demonstrates a political maxim that last-hurrahing wardheelers across the U.S. are rapidly learning: a hard-nosed, hard-pushed program of municipal reconstruction can do more than patronage...
...generations this maxim said much of what there was to say about marriage in the male-dominated world of China. But in line with the universal Communist policy of liberating the underdog the better to enslave him (or her) later, the first reform enacted into law by China's Communist masters was directed at marriage...
...thought a few moments, then said quietly: "I don't think that is it." To the President's way of thinking, clamor on Capitol Hill illustrated a simple maxim: "American politics is a history of a clash of ideas." But he was not averse to voicing some clashing budget-area sentiments of his own: "We have got to adapt the great principles of the Constitution to the inescapable industrial and economic conditions of our time, and make certain that our country is secure, and our people participate in the progress of our economy...
...mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal to a tiptoe world...