Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical defect. Even then, abortions require unanimous approval by a hospital panel of three doctors. North Carolina has followed suit, but does not require panels. California's new law is similar to Colorado's but bars abortion of potentially defective children. In varying degrees, the same formula is up for debate in at least ten other state legislatures...
...unlimited" championship in a surplus Navy Grumman Bearcat, wrenching his way around an eight-mile course at 396 m.p.h. And there were the purists, like 54-year-old Bill Falck of Warwick, N.Y., who screamed around a 2.5-mile course at 202 m.p.h. to win the Formula I competition. In airplane racing, the difference between the pros and the purists is that purists, like Falck, build their own planes...
...formula for a contemporary spy thriller almost always starts off with a supply of beautiful, pliant women. Crafty agents of a world conspiracy have to put in an appearance, and then, in varying combinations, there are likely to be urban vignettes from Copenhagen to Washington to Havana, stolen state papers, harried Red defectors, ominous confrontations between great powers. Finally, a suave but implacable intelligence officer can be counted on to save the West from its own follies...
...Financier Jay Gould for $346,000. "Gentlemen," Pulitzer told his new staff, "heretofore you have all been living in the parlor and taking baths every day. Now you are all walking down the Bowery." The World started championing the workingman and the newly arrived immigrants. It was a surefire formula. In three months, circulation doubled to 40,000. Within three years, the World was the biggest paper in New York and one of the two or three most important in the nation...
With Relevant Data. What this means, argues Pike, is that man today is forced to create his own creeds and dogmas on the empirical basis of what can be proved factually. In line with his formula, he suggests that faith should start not with speculations about God but with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum...