THE Commonweal week by week SURFACE CALM E VER since the war in Indochina ended three months ago there has been a sort of peace throughout the world. Aside from a few individual acts of...
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Mend s-France "NOTHING LESS THAN A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE IS NEEDED TO PREVENT THE COUNTRY FROM BECOMING A MINOR POWER.'" ROBERT BARRAT T HERE have been many accusations made against M....
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FROM GERMANY A Sunday in East Berlin DONAT O'DONNELL ~r'~HE People's Police are on the Watch," de| c l a r e s a slogan at the subway station in the - L Alexanderplatz, from which I emerged...
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LABOR UNITY News from Two Fronts I T isn't often that you get two shipments of good news on the same day. But on the same day the papers reported from the AFL convention in Los Angeles and the...
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THE STAGE THE BOY FRIEND A MEDITERRANEAN sun shines on "The Boy Friend," and from the terrace of the Villa Caprice, Madame Dubonnet's finishing school for girls (girls, you understand, are...
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THE SCREEN PRETTIEST TINSEL ON THE TREE T HERE are times when "Woman's World" will remind you of "Executive Suite." Both are chockf-uU of stars and both have to do with the search for a new...
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COMMUNICATIONS "SCIENCE AND SECURITY" Uniondale, N.Y. T O the Editors: With regard to Mr. Francis E. O'Meara's letter [Oct. 8] concerning my article on "Science and Security" [August 27] let me...
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COST & CULTURE The Problem of the Paper-Backs CECIL HEMLEY I F culture is, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "the best that has been thought and said," then the paper reprints have made culture...
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BOOKS An Idealist's Vision of Our Contemporary Distress IN THE NAME OF SANITY. By Lewis Mumford. Harcourt, Brace. $3.75. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, Jr. M R. Mumford is filled with what he himself...
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