Word: wisdoms
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Davis' grudge with the N.F.L. is historic. He coached the Oakland Raiders from 1963 through 1965, when the upstart American Football League appointed him its commissioner. Once he began romancing the N.F.L.'s star quarterbacks, the Establishment came around to the wisdom of merger. Whether or not he was more capable than Pete Rozelle, Davis became the odd commissioner out, and a man does not go from czar back to coach. Al took his place in the owner's box, but the game plans continue to be smudged with his fingerprints. Now and then, he also enjoys...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS is another area where the Californian has made a sharp break from the past, both in policy and in conventional wisdom. In this portion of the museum, scholars will for the first time get a glimpse at valuable documentation showing that the United States actually owned the Panama Canal (contrary to the 1903 treaty) and that North and South Vietnam had been two separate countries for centuries (despite volumes of history books and years when both were ruled by the same government, excepting periods of Chinese and French colonization). Bolstering the United States strategic forces...
December is supposed to be cold, sure, but temperatures on the order of last week's record breakers (-52° in Wisdom, Mont.; -14° in Indianapolis; 0° in Atlanta) are unseasonably, unreasonably cold. Readings in the Central Plains have been 36° below normal. Not since record keeping began had there been December days so cold in Chicago (-25°), New Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed...
Early on, it was decided to forgo an emergency furnace, and some Massachusetts legislators question the wisdom of that decision. (A similar 20-story office in Toronto has taken the timid approach, with a steam-heat backup.) But Site Architect Spiros Pantazi brushes off all fears...
...halting, charming English, learned painstakingly in front of a television set and at the foot of the Fonz. As he explains, "I watched Happy Days every time and Three's Company over and over. In any language, nobody cannot figure out Three's Company." This is the wisdom that passes understanding...