Word: formative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Town Meeting. Perot is deeply concerned that many Americans do not become involved with vital problems of the country. To help change this, he is negotiating with the TV networks for hour-long discussions of national issues. The programs will have an electronic town-meeting format: 20 minutes of impartial background and 20 minutes each for two exponents of differing viewpoints. Printed ballots will appear in newspapers for viewers to mail in, giving their responses to the debates...
After an unsuccessful attempt at a weekly newspaper (it went under while he was laid up with back trouble), Turner launched a monthly newsmagazine called Today. With a format unabashedly imitative of TIME'S, the first issue (December 1967) attacked the "royal mess" in a local school system. Then Turner charged that unnecessary delays in the county probate court were caused by "not having a well and healthy judge." (The judge resigned within weeks.) But Turner's prime target quickly became the most powerful lawyer and wheeler-dealer in the county: Martin J. Lavan...