Word: processes
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...Used. For better or worse, television has become an established part of the democratic process-a fact of life in the U.S. that is not lost on any politician. Senator Robert Kennedy candidly admits that he would rather appear for 30 seconds on an evening news program than be written up in every newspaper in the world. "President Johnson," says White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers bluntly, "feels that television offers him the most direct, straightforward and personal way to communicate with the people. It is not someone else's attitude or interpretation of what the President said...
...murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, TV news demonstrated its tireless capability and versatility. For millions upon millions, the President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government's use of a recorder taped to the back of another "spy." On these cases hang not only the defendants' fate but also Government use of informers and electronic eavesdropping-practices that raise complicated issues of due process as well as privacy...
...resigning in order to avoid any suggestion of impropriety in his sitting on Justice Department cases. Thus far, President Johnson has appointed only Justice Abe Fortas; the odds are that he will soon be called on to fill other vacancies-and perhaps create a considerably different court in the process...
This unhappy process, says Eble, begins with parents who fail to realize that "learning begins in delight and flourishes in wonder," and who fret so much over their children's education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...