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Coach Darrell Royal, 39, of the University of Texas is the kind of man who looks both ways before crossing a oneway street. The forward pass, he insists, is strictly for masochists. "When you throw the ball, four things can happen -and only one of them is good." The best offense, he says, is a good defense: "If the other team can't score on you, you can't lose. You can tie, but you can't lose." Royal's Longhorns content themselves with grinding out bite-sized chunks of yardage, and to make sure that...
...have never been against conciliation of the Buddhists. I am only against oneway conciliation...
...asking you to agree with me, but I do ask that there be some understanding of us as we attempt to understand your position. This is not a oneway street, ladies and gentlemen...
roiled taxpayers, drove some motorists into paroxysms of fury by putting in oneway streets ("Look, sonny," bawled one oldtimer to a cop who stopped him. "I've been driving this way on this street for 20 years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop me now!"). On downtown street corners, Barnes instituted the scramble plan (first tried in Vancouver, B.C. in the late '30s), in which all traffic lights turn red and the pedestrians are permitted to cross every which way till the lights switch back to normal red-and-green sequence. The plan was instantly labeled...
...forbade foreign shareholders to sell out to South Africans, prohibited South Africans from buying stock abroad. Since no sane foreign investor is likely to risk his money in the future on such a oneway street, South African industry will now have to rely solely on the nation's already pinched capital market for new funds. The announcement came only two weeks after South Africa had inserted a lavish, 24-page booklet into the Sunday New York Times, advertising its "favorable investment climate" and pointing out the bargains available, since "stocks have reached new highs on every exchange...