Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carefully avoiding any suggestion that his suggested nonprofit network should be Government controlled, Lippmann argued that its virtue would be its freedom to produce "not what will be most popular, but what is good." TV violence, degeneracy and crime, said he, would be replaced by "effective news reporting, good art and civilized entertainment...
...means rich, polite Bachelor Richard Kao, 30, is a sort of industrial scholar. He has a Ph.D. in economics (University of Illinois) and another under way in mathematics at U.C.L.A. An alumnus of Santa Monica's famed nonprofit Rand Corp., he now works for a similar "think palace," the Planning Research Corp. in Los Angeles. To a man of Kao's training, Newsboy Abdel's quick mind was obvious. "His goal is good," mused Kao. "He wants to be an educated...
Hooked. The pickings are fat because the U.S. has no national control of education, and sparse state control (only 18 states and the District of Columbia regulate degree giving). In one of 13 states that tolerate "nonprofit" colleges without a charter or license, the typical mill's campus is a small-town post-office box. For $150 and up, the mill sells such degrees as Doctor of Divinity in Metaphysics, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, "Master Herbalsits" (sic). The signatories are such lustrous personages as "Archbishop John...
...postwar commercial publishing. Soaring costs have fostered the hit psychology of the Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting to attract first-rate editors and designers...
...National Geographic Society, which finances scientific discovery, prints maps, and publishes the National Geographic Magazine, is the least exclusive, farthest flung and most improbable nonprofit publishing corporation in the world. Last year it sponsored an expedition to South America in search of the world's largest ant (longer than 1 in.), underwrote a dozen other scientific projects around the globe, printed 17.5 million maps, and gained 125,000 members, to bring total circulation to 2,440,000. The Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken...