Word: formulae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitch for LaLanne's elastic exercise rope ($4), one of the 30 health and beauty products that he peddles. As testimony to the benefits of such items as Jack LaLanne's Toasted Soya Snack Crackers and Jack LaLanne's One-Plus-One Vitamin and Mineral Formula, he introduces his wife Elaine. "When I met her," he says, "she was a bean pole living on coffee and cigarettes. I rebuilt her to my own specifications-35-26-35-and man alive, just look...
...that the U.S. would call off the bombing "when this will lead promptly to productive discussions. We, of course, assume that while discussions proceed, North Viet Nam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation." Last week the President seemed more yielding in one phase of the formula and more adamant in another. Instead of asking assurance that the talks would be "productive," he asked only for "reasonable hopes that they would be productive." The hardening seemed to come on military reciprocity. "The other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past...
Regardless of the wording, the Administration insisted afterward that there had been no change of position and that there would be none. "We've run out of moves," said one high official. "The San Antonio formula is it, as far as we are concerned." Whatever the real import of Hanoi's intensified diplomatic campaign, one side benefit from the Communist viewpoint is the increased pressure it puts on Washington. United Nations Secretary General U Thant chimed in once again and put responsibility for getting talks started on the U.S. The Soviet Union condemned Johnson's "unwillingness...
None of the Arab leaders shows any desire to become a Russian satellite. In fact, Nasser and some other leaders would like to find a saving formula by which they could re-establish relations with the U.S. and thus resume their balancing act between Russians and Americans. Washington has so far seen fit not to respond to such hints, but the time must come when, if it does not want the Russians to tighten their hold on Arabia irretrievably, the U.S. must try to restore American influence in the area...
Instead, the fact that North Americans alone possess the power to establish overall Peace Corps policy here strengthens their determinations to develop this country according to the formula which they assume made the United States great. The integers of that formula are community development, civic responsibility, personal hygiene. So they often try to impose their own North American structures--the mothers club, the Boy Scout troop--onto communities which have for generations been highly structured according to their own culture. They try to impose the idea of civic loyalty that one finds in stable middleclass American towns onto rapidly growing...