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...explain to the committee the peculiar, almost unique government of the city of Los Angeles: a bewildering entanglement of jurisdictions that intertwine with county and state and deprive the mayor of authority over most of the city's major functions. The subcommittee, which obviously had not done its homework in certain vital aspects of Los Angeles government, was not interested. As soon as Yorty had finished his opening statement, its members turned to the problem of Los Angeles' disadvantaged minorities and what Yorty was doing about them. Kennedy and Ribicoff zeroed in with question after question, frequently demanding...
...pictures, has studied the editing, dubbing and scoring processes, has even sat in on a contract-haggling session in the William Morris talent agency. Between rubbernecking tours, he has picked some of the best and least complacent brains in the business-George Stevens Sr., Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet. His homework has included not only the autobiography of Jack Warner but / Lost It at the Movies, Critic Pauline Kael's bristling broadside on what is wrong with Hollywood. (Valenti underlined the most compelling passages with a yellow felt-tip pen for future reference...
...Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...
...their openness to new ideas, parents have some firm objections to a few proposals that are being talked about. They reject a longer school day to reduce homework, summer vacations shortened to four weeks, standard tests in all U.S. high schools, and use of "pass" or "fail" grading...
...have been good fortune. Perhaps as a result Reston has never believed he had all the answers-or even, to listen to him, any of the answers. His first rule in gathering information is not to pretend to know a subject when he doesn't. "I do my homework on what the problems are," he says, "and then keep asking questions about the solutions...