Abstract
It is hypothesized that a very small number of people constitute the attentive world affairs public. The Minnesota World Affairs Center, like other educational groups on world affairs, needs methods of efficiently identifying foreign policy opinion makers in their communities. The Minnesota Center therefore compiled lists of individuals residing in Minnesota towns and cities outside the Twin City area who read leading journals of public affairs, belong to world affairs organizations, and have attended world affairs meetings. A computer sorted out the individuals whose names appeared more than once on these lists. Conference and meeting invitations to the individuals so selected yielded a good early response.
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