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IssueVol. 012 Issue 007 (July 1 1979)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS . Is Mr. Leonid I. Brezhnev,* 72, sliding through dotage and about to give himself up to the worms? Is this loveable bear of a man, who not long ago took the diabolical Nixon...
Paid articleEditorial / A Parable
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL A PARABLE X now have secured in my safe-deposit box a most important document of our time, the May-June 1979 issue of Harvard'Magazine, the magazine of the Harvard alumni association. It...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Electric Windmills / D.O.E. Ad Lib / Troopers (Storm Variety)
Bethell, Tom
CAPIT0L IDEAS ELECTRIC WINDMILLS/D.O.E. AD LIB/TROOPERS (STORM VARIETY) by Tom Bethell X stopped my car beside the Mall, because I was curious about the overflight appearance of some quaint little...
Paid articleThe Tom Wolfe Interview
Bethell, Tom
Tom Bethell THE TOM WOLFE INTERVIEW Astronauts, test pilots, the uncritical willingness to face danger, the Right Stuff, reporting, essay-writing, the ''new journalism," and more from America's...
Paid articleMarx's Lust
Starr, Roger
Roger Starr MARX'S LUST He coveted power and his housekeeper. Many years ago a boarding school headmaster prepared me for Saul Pa-dover's "intimate" book about the life of Karl Marx.* My...
Paid articleIllegal Aliens: Visitors from the Third World
Abrams, Elliott
Elliott Abrams ILLEGAL ALIENS VISITORS FROM THE THIRD WORLD The non-one hundred percent Americans. Nothing has received so much comment with so little thought as the Illegal Alien Crisis. John...
Paid articleCriminals & Liberals
Bishop, Joseph W. Jr.
Joseph W. Bishop, Jr. CRIMINALS & LIBERALS Are liberals by nature infatuated with criminals or has society made them that way ? It is probable that the first crime followed the first law by not...
Paid articleCarter's Dog-Keeper
TheoLippman Jr.
Theo Lippman,Jr. CARTER'S DOG-KEEPER James Fallows'' The Passionless Presidency' '-a joke that everyone missed. My favorite reporting on the White House is Dog Days at the White House: The...
Paid articleWheelchairs and Bedpans: Canada onthe Move
Manor, F.S.
F.S. Manor WHEELCHAIRS AND BEDPANS CANADA ON THE MOVE Where medical care is ' 'free,'' life is cheap. It can safely be assumed that most Canadians support some system of publicly financed medical...
Paid articleCall Me Ahab
Nollson, John
John Nollson CALL ME AHAB Captain Ahab stood expressionless on the quarterdeck of the Pequod as the crew brought her smartly about. Since entering the mouth of,the Potomac River, about 110 miles...
Paid articleThe Talkies /Alien and Winter Kills
Yagoda, Ben
ALIEN AND WINTER KILLS Alien does to animals what Invasion of the Body Snatchers did to plants. The title character, which manages to elbow its way aboard the spaceship Nostromo on its return to...
Paid articleSouth Africa: War, Revolution or Peace? / U.S. Foreign Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gann, L.H.; Duignan, Peter; Price, Robert M.
BOOK REVIEWS These two monographs go well together. They agree on nothing of substance yet share a modesty of purpose. Professors Gann and Duignan write "not... to offer a set of alternative...
Paid articleThe Human Factor
Greene, Graham
THE HUMAN FACTOR Graham Greene Avon Books / $2.50 Karl O 'Lessker Fiscal prudence dictates that the purchase of some books we want to read be delayed till they appear in mass-market paperback...
Paid articleBakke, Defunis, and Minority Admissions: The Quest for Equal Opportunity
Sindler, Allan P.
BAKKE, DEFUNIS, AND MINORITY ADMISSIONS: THE QUEST FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Allan P. Sindler / Longman / $12.50 Jeremy Rabkin Is there anything left to say about the Bakke case? Even before the...
Paid articleThe Secret Betrayal: 1944-1947
Tolstoy, Nikolai
BAKKE, DEFUNIS, AND MINORITY ADMISSIONS: THE QUEST FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Allan P. Sindler / Longman / $12.50 Jeremy Rabkin Is there anything left to say about the Bakke case? Even before the...
Paid articleBefore the Sabbath
Hoffer, Eric
BEFORE THE SABBATH Eric Hoffer Harper & Row / $7.95 William Gavin Eric Hoffer has been overpraised and undervalued, ignored and lionized for the wrong reasons, admired for intellectual virtues he...
Paid articleCan Government Go Bankrupt?
Rose, Richard; Peters, Guy
CAN GOVERNMENT GO BANKRUPT? Richard Rose & Guy Peters / Basic Books / $12.50 Alan Reynolds National governments can't literally go bankrupt, but they can bankrupt a lot of their citizens. When...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Mother Jones Mr. Adam Hochschild practicing personal therapy on page five of the very latest issue of Mother Jones, the bed-wetters' Bible: Aside from the new-parent leaves, we try...
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