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...Washington bureau of the Providence morning Journal (circ. 45,767) and evening Bulletin (145,255), Bureau Chief Frederic W. Collins got a routine offer. He was invited to appear (for $125) on a TV interview show put on by Facts Forum, a nonprofit, "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." Newsman Collins made a quick check of Facts Forum, turned down the offer and wrote a story suggesting that Facts Forum is "not all it appeared to be." The Journal-Bulletin did not let the matter drop; they assigned Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian, 33, to a two-month investigation of Facts Forum. Last...
...Oilman Hunt is so shy of publicity that he is rarely photographed and his name does not even appear in Who's Who in America. He refused to see Reporter Bagdikian, but he did talk to him over the phone and answered some written questions. As a "nonprofit national educational organization," Hunt's Facts Forum is tax exempt, and Hunt's contributions are deductible from his personal income tax. Furthermore, Facts Forum's radio-TV programs, run as a "public service," thus get more than $1,000,000 a year in nationwide free time...
...Rogers Memorial, dropped into a curio shop run by Claremore's Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray, in a nonprofit corporation to take over the collection as a public trust...
Latin America is in the midst of a "population explosion." Its people are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the populations in the rest of the world. Right now, the population of Latin America and the Caribbean islands, as tabulated by Washington's Population Reference Bureau (a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization), is some 173 million-just about the same as the U.S. and Canada together. But if present growth rates should continue until the year 2000, Latin America and the West Indies would top the U.S. plus Canada by 550 million to 250 million. Fastest-growing Latin country: Costa...
...trying for ten years to make ends meet. In the U.S., the monthly Partisan Review has been forced to cut down to six issues a year, is still constantly casting about for angels. Since they traditionally operate in the red, only the little magazines backed by universities, well-heeled nonprofit organizations or foundations have any security. This week in London, 10,000 copies of a brand-new little magazine rolled off the presses, and it not only has the backing of an organization but is also a highbrow magazine whose roots are transatlantic. The magazine: Encounter, an 80-page international...