Word: formula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common sense had proved too much for Dr. William McCord, director of the Medical College Complex and a stubborn opponent of union recognition. Governor Robert McNair had long been demanding a peaceful conclusion. The local business community wanted an agreement, and the Nixon Administration sought to produce an acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former Republican chairman of South Carolina. The details...
...alter the court's direction significantly. In Brown and Gideon, the court spoke with a unanimous voice. Just one Justice dissented from the ruling that ordered an end to prayers and Bible reading in the public schools and the one that upheld the one-man, one-vote formula in Reynolds...
...away both suitors, though he did agree to design the engine for Fiat's Dino Spider sports car. Since then, however, the prancing black horse of Modena, the longstanding insignia of Ferrari, has worn few winner's laurels. So far this year, Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production of about 700 handmade cars a year - which sell for an average $12,000 each in Italy-can no longer sustain the rising cost of racing...
...improvising white students ("Let's take a hostage!") he accuses of being more neurotic than the blacks, who, he says, had limited but precise objectives. He chides students for being in love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they set up is a committee...
...many U.S. orchestras, one potential pattern for the future is the success formula of the former Minneapolis Symphony. In 1966, at the time of its $2,000,000 Ford grant, a study was made of anticipated income and costs for the next five years. The directors decided that by 1971 the symphony needed to raise a minimum of $10 million, if it was to have a chance of coming out on top. But how? First, the organization's name was changed to the Minnesota Orchestra. More than just a semantic gimmick, that symbolized the orchestra's intention...