Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breed of campaign management firms. For a fat fee -into six figures for a major statewide contest-the freelance image polishers will take over as much of the administrative work and thinking as the candidate will allow and pay for. They will handle his advertising, fund raising, research, direct mailings, speechwriting, and just about everything else short of representing his district after election. These backroom brains seldom meet the people, rely instead on elaborate research and computers to determine what the voters want to hear...
...lost on any politician. Senator Robert Kennedy candidly admits that he would rather appear for 30 seconds on an evening news program than be written up in every newspaper in the world. "President Johnson," says White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers bluntly, "feels that television offers him the most direct, straightforward and personal way to communicate with the people. It is not someone else's attitude or interpretation of what the President said. It's the purest form of communication, and I think the most desirable...
...ground that American judges lack power to discipline police and news media until a case comes to trial. For one thing, the Constitution's separation of governmental powers limits the judicial branch in controlling police, who belong to the executive branch. For another, the First Amendment precludes "direct controls of the news media by a governmental scheme of legislation or judicial regulation." The solution, argues Medina, is for "the judicial establishment to put its own house in order...
...PLANE CONTROL. U.S. forces in Viet Nam will get Litton Industries' computers to direct combat missions. With the aid of radar and display screens, airborne computers will show pilots precisely where to go, signal corrections if they stray off course. A command control plane will carry a computer no bigger than a big dictionary that will keep track of all planes in a strike; a similar computer could control the air traffic at a big-city airport...
...roughly match the money available from all private sources. The colleges this year are offering $170 million in scholarships, $40 million in loans and $140 million in part-time jobs. State scholarship aid amounts to another $90 million, and some states also guarantee student loans at low interest rates. Direct loans from private agencies generally are more expensive; college officials warn that some special private funds charge "exorbitant interest" on college loans...