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...have watched 5,000 hours of TV by the time he enters first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of high school -- more time than he will spend in class. This dismayingly passive experience crowds out other, more active endeavors: playing outdoors, being with friends, reading. Marie Winn, author of the 1977 book The Plug-In Drug, gave a memorable, if rather alarmist, description of the trancelike state TV induces: "The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth (if there are any). The eyes...
Others who got high consulting fees included Richard Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, who has since died; former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke; former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn; Philip Winn, current U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; and Frederick Bush, a close associate, but no relative, of President Bush's. Jack Kemp, the President's new HUD Secretary, has ordered the program stopped until recent grants are reviewed and new approval procedures created...
...opening statements, aspiring authors jockeyed for space on courtroom benches. Joyce Johnson, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, began work on What Lisa Knew. Free-lance writer Maury Terry launched into The Dark Side of 10th Street. Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel. Marie Winn, author of a television critique, The Plug-In Drug, jotted notes for an untitled book...
...after. With the help of a Ford Foundation spin-off called the Local Initiatives Support Corp., and some local and federal money to secure the necessary loans, TEDC transformed the Pantry Pride site into Edison Plaza, a $2.1 million shopping center with thriving stores and offices, anchored by a Winn-Dixie supermarket...
...scratch-off tickets, and the state has tucked away $350 million for its schools. Not everyone enjoys the boom, however. Merchants find the growing lines of ticket buyers a headache. Their annoyance was dramatized last week, following Florida's record $55.1 million payoff, when President James Kufeldt of Winn-Dixie Stores gave the state a month's notice that his 471 supermarkets are pulling out of the games. Swarms of ticket buyers were sometimes "impairing the check-out services," he said, and Winn-Dixie just wants to stick to selling groceries...