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...Jefferson's writing talents, he proved them two years ago in A Summary View of the Rights of British America?a trenchant and almost bellicose pamphlet reviewing the history of America in the British Empire. Some say, however, that Jefferson was only named to the committee as part of a compromise, after John Adams had nearly choked on the idea of working with Virginia's Benjamin Harrison, who was comparatively lukewarm to independence...
...concerts. Movie Star Robert Redford also joined their cause. The anti-nukes sent up to 5,000 young people a weekend on doorbell-ringing visits throughout the state. They harped on the idea that a reactor meltdown could release a cloud of radioactivity that, in the words of one pamphlet, "could contaminate hundreds of square miles, forcing you to abandon your home, bankrupting your employer and giving thousands of children thyroid cancers." Toward the end, the anti-nuclear forces tried to portray the vote as a classic confrontation between ordinary citizens and big business, which, they charged, was spending millions...
...organization. Already, in the current campaign, the P.C.I, has grabbed the initiative. The Communists were first out with a platform and a list of candidates, including six well-known Catholic laymen (TIME, May 31), a ploy that stunned the Vatican. For voters who care, there is a 63-page pamphlet explaining Berlinguer's call for a multiparty government of "democratic unity." The Communists have also produced leaflets and filmstrips on specialized subjects ranging from women's rights to the plight of Italian fishermen...
...Bern-based Third World Working Group (which lobbies in Switzerland for support of less developed countries) published Muller's report-with a few changes. Muller had criticized the industry as a whole, but the Bern activists titled their pamphlet Nestle Kills Babies. They also omitted some of Muller's qualifying remarks and included a preface that singled out Nestle for an accusation of "unethical and immoral" behavior. Nestle sued for libel, and the trial began last November in Bern. The controversy has stimulated great interest throughout Switzerland, 80,000 of whose 6½ million inhabitants are Nestle shareholders...
...dizzying speed with which news now travels, the way it is organized (or not organized), the emerging belief in the "objectivity" of news presentation and, above all, the quantity of information that is thrust at us. Where once there were several dozen news papers, plus books, correspondence and a pamphlet literature, Americans now have access to some 1,500 daily newspapers, more than 10,000 magazines, nearly 1,000 television channels and almost 8,000 radio stations. Of course, the bigger numbers reflect a bigger population-but only partly. For the fact is that in most respects the increase...