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Blow to Keynes. Washington officials are increasingly worried that the spiral in state and local spending diminishes their ability to manipulate the economy with Keynesian tools, and that there is little they can do about it. When state and local spending passes federal spending for goods and services-which it will unquestionably do as soon as the Viet Nam war is over-the economic leverage of the federal budget, tax and monetary policies will be automatically reduced...
Nothing looks beautiful at birth. Camp's pass to Thompson was airborne for maybe all of 5 or 6 yds. It was thrown underhand and wobbled precariously end over end-because the overhand spiral was the result of still another accident, which did not occur for 30 more years. Nobody knows for sure who happened onto it first. All at once, half a dozen players started throwing corkscrews, grasping the ball by its laces and rifling it through the air. But it took another 60 years and a horde of exceptional athletes to pull the cork completely...
...space of 3½ sec., the average time it takes a strong defensive lineman to penetrate a passer's protective pocket. When he got his time down to 3½ sec., he began trying for 3 sec. Then Terry practiced varying the speed of his spiral: "When a man is wide open," he explained, "there is no sense barreling it in there. But when the defensive man is close enough to grab the ball, you can't allow for any floaters." He also memorized Seymour's habits, the timing of his cuts and fakes, so perfectly that...
...Paris during la belle époque make decades melt away-particularly in a smoky, golden café scene reminiscent of Lautrec, with portly naiads up to their chins in gym suits and a matronly stripper dismantling her corsetry on an overhead swing. Also visible behind the potted palms and spiral staircases is Director Peter Glenville, impersonating Playwright Feydeau. Glenville as Feydeau wears a wise, conspiratorial expression, presumably to suggest that middle-class morality can be terribly droll. But Glenville as Glenville hasn't the faintest idea of how to get the fun on film...
...football is not exactly an inexact science. Every pass that Baltimore's Johnny Unitas throws is sure to be a perfect spiral, and everybody knows who is going to carry the ball when the Green Bay Packers need a yard or two: Jimmy Taylor, of course. Each team employs the same basic formations and the same plays. "Execution" is everything. Watching the pros play ball is like watching a diamond cutter at work...