Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus they find themselves in a vicious circle. In this situation, there is more and more talk of the need to find a formula to end the war. Some suggest a bombing halt to test whether, as United Nations Secretary-General U Thant maintains, Hanoi really will show up at the negotiating table in a matter of days. Others propose the establishment of a joint command to give the U.S. greater leverage over the erratic South Vietnamese army. But one U.S. officer argues: "We've got to make sure that when we walk out of here some...
Good News. The show's producers like to say that the format follows an old trusted formula-something old and new, borrowed and blue. But Laugh-In has something far better than formula jokes: topical satire that is biting without being bitter...
...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...
Sport-Cola achieves that distinction by foregoing the extra dose of caffeine that most cola makers add to the tiny quantity present in kola nuts. In name and formula both, the beverage is aimed primarily at the 80 million U.S. youths under 20, who account for almost half of cola-drink consumption. Says Canada Dry President David J. Mahoney: "We're giving the consumer one more choice...
...aloof campaign style is a calculated gamble. Despite the odds against him in the opinion polls, Romney's aggressive courtship is obviously beginning to win some supporters. Where Nixon treats Viet Nam in gingerly generalities, Romney has lately hammered out at least a comprehensible if debatable formula calling for "neutralization" of the two Viet Nams, Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the Michigander's war views are beginning to intersect more and more with those of Democratic Peace Candidate Eugene McCarthy. "The pattern of public deception over Viet Nam has not receded in the last 5½ months," Romney...