Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though both Harvard and Radcliffe at that time made scholarship awards according to the same formula, Radcliffe's per-student scholarship endowment was less than Harvard...
...main task of the conference is to find some formula for transferring power from Rhodesia's white minority to the black majority. But at week's end the delegates were still unable to agree on the relatively simple matter of setting a formal date for independence (Rhodesia technically is still a British colony). The black nationalists were demanding independence in twelve months; the whites insisted that 23 months were necessary. Both sides had rejected Chairman Ivor Richard's compromise proposal of a 15-month transition. Meanwhile, Smith had flown back to Salisbury on Nov. 3, declaring...
Chosen Route. In this account of his own autumnal days on Martha's Vineyard, Hough, with great skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation...
...Workers' demonstrations in 1956 and 1970 had even brought down the reigning party chiefs in Warsaw. This time, the present Polish party boss, Edward Gierek, survived the riots by immediately rolling back prices. Still, lingering discontent in Poland, tied to a worsening economic crisis, has produced the classic formula for rebellion. TIME Correspondent Henry Muller recently visited Poland to gauge the public mood as the nation entered what threatens to be a long turbulent winter. His report...
...chased each other -hare and hound in the fragile cockpits of Grand Prix racing cars-across four continents, ten months, 15 highspeed races. One of them, Niki Lauda, the reigning champion of Formula I, had nearly given his life to the quest in a flaming crash at Germany's treacherous Nürburgring course. The other, James Hunt, racing's brash and rising star, had invested his considerable zest in the discipline needed to hone his talents. Only three points separated them-Lauda leading-in the contest for the World Driving Championship when they came to the final...