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...that most papers devote so little space to foreign affairs is that murders, sports, and local scandals sell more papers--and the editors are responsible to their advertisers. Although Reston recognizes this problem, he never really deals with it. The fact is that newspapers, like any other commodity, must cater to the whims of the consumer--and the consumers are more interested in sensational stories than in background material. Reston's only response to this logic, in essence. Is that the papers owe an extensive coverage of foreign affairs to their most intelligent readership...
...psychiatrists are going to cater to all of Harvard, they will have to learn to be more open minded; they will have to make their definition of sickness a little more elastic. They will, in effect, have to become a little more...
Never has federal money been more available to communities-and seldom has the source been harder to crack. Five separate agencies subsidize sewage treatment, three programs cater to the needs of deaf children, 30 aid training for teachers. Confusion about where to get what has brought forth so many catalogues that the Administration is preparing a Catalogue of Catalogues...
...trips and wide-ranging student exchange programs, and holds an annual National Student Congress to debate a few domestic issues and countless international questions ranging from "Whither Africa?" to "How Now, Chairman Mao?" The association was founded in 1947 by 24 American campus leaders, including White House Aide Douglass Cater, then a recent Harvard graduate, after a trip to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague, where lavishly financed Communist groups stole the show; one of their organizers was Komsomol Leader Aleksandr Shelepin, who was later to head the Soviet internal security agency...
...later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That act, says White House Aide Douglass Cater, "has Gardner's fingerprints all over...