Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, of course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world...
Being President is the job of putting together the correct ideas, the correct instincts, the correct talents, the correct people and the correct actions. From that comes purpose and force. Carter has not yet found his formula...
...books, Gorey piles hackneyed literary convention upon hackneyed literary convention to reach a gruesome black-humor conclusion. Stylized drawings of upper crust twerps develop into tiny portraitures of weirdly haunted people. But this time the script does not fit the Gorey formula. Although everyone looks straight out of a Gorey story, you cannot sink your teeth into the paper-thin characters. And unlike his books, you cannot flip through this play. You just have to sit there, watching boring characters witlessly enacting a plot whose ending you already know...
...cars can do it if the drivers cannot. Custom-built for $15,000 apiece, they are three-quarter-size versions of the Formula 1 racer, powered by 28-h.p. Wankel rotary engines capable of 67 m.p.h. on the open road. The brightly colored Fiberglas bodies are mounted on tubular-frame chassis; spun-aluminum wheels carry oversize Goodyear racing-slick tires. They have automatic transmission and quick-ratio steering; brakes are front-wheel disc and rear-wheel drum. The cars are almost impossible to roll over...
...appeal of mini-Grand Prix racing, says Malibu Vice President Dan Morris, is "total escape. It lets you get away from it all. When that green light goes on, you're not thinking about anything else." The formula appeals equally to love-troubled teen-agers and businessmen with the blahs. One Malibu regular is an 86-year-old retiree; another is a prominent psychiatrist who drives up in his own Shelby G.T. The holder of the Northridge speed record is Joe Granatelli, 23, nephew of the great Andy and son of ex-Driver Vince Granatelli. Says he: "My father...