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This serious approach reflects the high cost of the sport. "The surest way to make a small fortune in road racing is to start out with a large one," Aronson maintains, and the figures bear him out. A good Formula Ford will run about $8000, and a driver will have to spend at least that much during the seven-month season for maintenance, travel costs and entry fees...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Weekend Racer Aims for the Grand Prix Trail | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

...those who believe that prison is the surest antidote to crime, the news last week was good. It gave others pause, however, when Corrections magazine reported that as 1976 began, 249,538 people were behind bars in the U.S. - the highest number of federal and state inmates in history. The total has been rising slowly since 1967, when it stood at 195,000, and last year's jump of 24,000 was the largest on record. Every state showed a rise except California, whose prison population dropped 20% because of new parole guidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Increasing the Lockup | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...perhaps the surest measure of Ford's new confidence is that he is finally learning how to exploit the fact that he is, after all, an incumbent President. Except for occasional forays into the primary states, he intends to stay in Washington and make news there, setting himself apart from all the other candidates. "He's the only one making the hard decisions," says an aide. "Nobody else is closing military bases or calling for a rise in Social Security taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Drawing the Battle Lines | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

About the surest way to get your name in the foreign press these days, or so it seems, is to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: Dangerous Wrecking Operation | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...such a spectacle. The institution intentionally fosters that community sense, for these are future donors to the legendary immense Harvard fortune; such important assets must be nurtured. Fostering the sense of belonging, that feeling of having found one's niche, is the best assurance of student concern, and the surest way to make that concern appear reciprocal...

Author: By Monica Mcclendon, | Title: Riding on the Back of The University's Bus | 11/25/1975 | See Source »

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