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Each year TIME'S Education Program for high school students and teachers grows in scope and popularity. More than 2.5 million students took the TIME Current Affairs Test last year, and more than 6,000 teachers in U.S. and Canadian schools now make use of TIME and its classroom aids: wall charts and maps, vocabulary lists and the weekly Teachers' Guide to TIME...
...There is no rhyme or reason for it to be done, so it won't be. At night, Nixon rests." Agnew will be kept mostly out in the boondocks until he is completely sure of himself and until it is clear what attack the Democrats will use against him. Then, to take advantage of his Greek ancestry, he will be sent into ethnic neighborhoods of northern cities. Last week he spoke in such places as Oshkosh, Wis., and Paramus...
...self-respecting bureaucrat knows, it is bad form indeed to use a single, simple word when six or seven obfuscating ones will...
...Rand Dixon angrily ejected him from his office. John Schulz, 29, a fledgling lawyer from Yale who is the patriarch of Nader's neophytes, had requested a copy of a monthly FTC memorandum detailing complaints made to the commission. Dixon told him that the document was for FTC use only. After slamming his door on Schulz, Dixon threatened to bar all of Nader's investigators from the building-an unenforceable fiat, since the FTC building is legally open to the public...
Capricious Execution. Besides money, Huie makes use of a fierce persistence and an equally intense passion for the underdog. He is an aggressive, blunt-spoken reporter who makes it clear that no one is going to put anything over on him. When he does business with the sordid characters who sell him stories, he tells them: "One damn lie and the whole deal is off." And few facts in Huie's exposes have ever been disproved...