Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Grand Prix of Monaco for Formula 1 racing cars, at Monte Carlo, and the Masters Surfing championships, at Redondo Beach, Calif...
Bringing the idea of federal aid a step further, Walter Heller, former chief of the Council of Economic Advisers, has suggested filling the states' chief need-money-by rebating a percentage of federal income taxes under a formula that would give the poorer states a bigger share. Many experts challenge this plan, insisting that it would be better to cut federal taxes and let the states do their own collecting. Says former Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, a onetime governor of North Carolina: "A plan like Heller's would come nearer to sapping the remaining initiative of the states...
...resorts, Downtowner Corp. zeroed in on the all-but-forgotten traveling salesman for its bread-and-butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year (v. 64% for hotels) Downtowner Corp. rang up sales of $15,300,000, or 37% over...
...Andress in a feckless adaptation of Jules Verne's The Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman, Director Philippe de Broca overbids to repeat the success of his hilarious mock-action thriller, That Man from Rio. The trouble is that Director de Broca's imitation of his own winning formula is not a whit better than anyone else's, and a good deal worse than some...
...House of Representatives made it apparent fairly early that it found the automatic Federal payment formula in the Administration bill unacceptable. Administration forces finally worked out the compromise Multer Bill, which was essentially the Senate bill without the automatic Federal payment. It was less than home rule advocates wanted, but it seemed likely to pass and differences over the Federal payment could be worked out in conference...