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...fastest-growing sectors in U.S. education. It began when he reflected that many of his fellow students were not interested in a degree but paid hefty fees for credit. "So I thought, gee, set up a film school that was just for information???quick, and no credit," he says. Friends suggested adding a pottery class and a course on surviving the ordeal of job interviews...
...manageable; it could be comprehended through short cuts, and if that was impossible, then through hard, serious effort. TIME fitted that perception. It was a short cut, a gadget of knowledge. But it was also more. The very invention of the newsmagazine?with its orderly rubrics, its organization of information???symbolized the conviction that people could grasp the world and make sense of it. TIME was didactic. Parentheses were filled with statistics about height, weight, area, population. "Learned footnotes" sprouted at the bottoms of pages. But at the start, articles were short, often mere "items," snippets and extracts from other...
Fundamental to the Service's operations is what it calls "protective research"?the evaluation and handling of potential threats to the President's safety. Each year the Service looks into some 200,000 bits of information???including 1,000 out-and-out threats?that are somehow linked to presidential security. About 4,000 suspects are interviewed, some 300 people posing potential danger are located, and some 60 arrests are made. The Service also continually updates its master list of 38,000 people who, in the words of Director H. Stuart Knight, "have a propensity for violence...
...took all that seriously." Eisenhower admitted that only at the last minute did he and Nixon's wife and daughters learn the details of the former President's incriminating June 23, 1972 taped cover-up conversations. Only three days before he told the nation, Nixon gave his family the information???in effect, a confession that he had been lying to them for months. Nonetheless, Eisenhower still regards his father-in-law as a "natural resource" who ought to run for office once again, perhaps for the Senate...
...functions, practices, and the economic force it exerts in the affairs of the country is surprisingly small among those persons not in some way connected with the business itself. . . . There is only one cure for such a condition and that is the nation-wide dis- semination of facts and information??? facts and information obviously accurate...