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...five-man committee appointed to set up the meeting conferred hastily when students began to ask for an adjournment and announced that it would call another meeting next week-perhaps under a different format...
Town Meeting. Perot is deeply concerned that many Americans do not become involved with vital problems of the country. To help change this, he is negotiating with the TV networks for hour-long discussions of national issues. The programs will have an electronic town-meeting format: 20 minutes of impartial background and 20 minutes each for two exponents of differing viewpoints. Printed ballots will appear in newspapers for viewers to mail in, giving their responses to the debates...
After an unsuccessful attempt at a weekly newspaper (it went under while he was laid up with back trouble), Turner launched a monthly newsmagazine called Today. With a format unabashedly imitative of TIME'S, the first issue (December 1967) attacked the "royal mess" in a local school system. Then Turner charged that unnecessary delays in the county probate court were caused by "not having a well and healthy judge." (The judge resigned within weeks.) But Turner's prime target quickly became the most powerful lawyer and wheeler-dealer in the county: Martin J. Lavan...
Vast Gulf. In developing these priorities, the delegates demonstrated an amazing ability to cut through rhetoric to cruel reality: there are an estimated 15 million underfed Americans. In fact, the consensus statement seemed almost a victory over the conference format itself, which was encumbered with such panel topics as "Nutrition Teaching in Elementary and High Schools," and "Adults in an Affluent Society...
...format of our "workshop" resembles that of a design workshop rather than a seminar. The tutor serves as a consultant...