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...Presidents have done that. They made public service an adventure. You go back now and read some of the things they said, and the content doesn't matter so much as the attitude. When I was a professor, I didn't mind too much if my students forgot the details. What was important was that they got a sense of what really mattered. Then they could teach themselves...
...late '30s, much of what Wells had predicted had come true. A world already in future shock either forgot him or patronized him. Cruelly, Lytton Strachey snobbishly noted: "I stopped thinking about Wells the moment he became a thinker." Not everyone did, however. As late as 1969, Michael Crichton took the basic gimmick from The War of the Worlds and turned it into the bestseller The Andromeda Strain. For millions of people, one Wellsian prediction, as headlined in the New York American in 1933, has yet to lose its Chill: H.G. WELLS VISIONS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN THE CLUTCHES...
...classic encounter that would shape their future relationship. While a student at Santa Barbara, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in her 1950 campaign against Nixon for a seat in the U.S. Senate. "There was an absent-minded professor who knew I was in politics and forgot the rest," says Tuck. "He asked me to advance a Nixon visit." With that opportunity, Tuck's career of pranksterism was launched. He hired a big auditorium, invited only a handful of people and introduced the candidate with a long-winded, soporific speech. Finally turning to Nixon, Tuck asked...
...written, and the dream of becoming a professional fighter. Dixon had a few pro-fights in Chicago. He was Joe Louis's sparring partner for a time, and one year, he won the Golden Gloves Championship. After a while, he started "drinking, and hanging out," and he soon forgot all about his boxing career...
...blue-chip stock in show business. The company's revenues have soared, from $116.6 million to $329 million, and so have profits, from $ 12.4 million to a record $40 million. In fearing that the Disney empire would founder after the death of its founding genius, the financial fellows forgot to reckon on one thing: the continuing presence of Walt Disney...