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...hand, we discuss the issues and then vote for the candidate who will do the most for the nation as a whole. Some live in political society daily as they build critical judgments reading the newspapers some are political citizens only every two or four years in the election booth and some do not have enough political education or moral uphousing ever to take part...
While someone like Walter Cronkite has said that his prominence often prevented him from leaving the anchor booth to report stories from the field. Koppel says that he doesn't worry about the effects of his increased exposure and celebrated status. U.S. News and World Report, for instance recently named him one of the nation's 30 most influential individuals...
Cranbrook's first great achievement was the 350-acre campus itself, which includes four schools, an institute of science and a museum. The complex was founded by Detroit Newspaper Magnate George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, both philanthropists and aesthetes under the spell of the arts and crafts movement that was launched in England in the 1880s, inspired by the work of the designer-poet William Morris. They enlisted a kindred spirit-Eliel Saarinen, then Finland's leading architect-to serve as Cranbrook's designer, president and guiding force. Saarinen's stately, romantic...
...phones themselves, which never used to break down, now break down? And nobody will fix them, unless you dismantle them and send them-by mail!-to some repair shop in West Nowhere. And the prices keep going up: 25? or even 30?, soon, for a local call from a booth...
...would be thrown into chaos, and the nation would soon stand helpless before its enemies. Ronald Reagan may not even know this man's name, since the two have met only a few times in conferences. Dan Rather would probably not recognize him if they shared a phone booth...