Correspondents' Corresgonaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Eyes on China VIENTIANE—The thaw in Sino-American...
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THE PENTAGON PAPERS AND HISTORICAL HINDSIGHT BY JOHN P. ROCHE THE REAL PROBLEM created by publication of excerpts from the Pentagon's history of our involvement in Vietnam lies not so much in the...
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Education Report VOUCHERS & PUBLIC EDUCATION BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Poverty programs put very little money into the hands of the poor because middle-class hands are so much more gifted at grasping...
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States of the Union LEARNING ABOUT ASIA BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS WHILE CONGRESS was appropriating another $30 billion for the war in Vietnam, the Board of Education in my town was trying futilely...
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Writers & Writing PLUMBING THE HEIGHTS BY ISA KAPP MANY READERS will come to Mary McCarthy's new novel after decades of admiration for her wit, for her determination to become involved (though...
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The Limits of Technology Overskill: The Decline of Technology in Modern Civilization By Eugene S. Schwartz Quadrangle. 338 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by James Palmer Contributor, "Cosmopolitan,"...
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Imperialist Legacy_ Scramble for Africa: The Great Trek to the Boer War By Anthony Nutting Dutton. 454 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by George Woodcock Editor, "Canadian Literature"; author, "Canada and...
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Defrocking the Klan White Terror: The KuKlux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction By Allen W. Trelease Harper & Row. 557 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Hans L. Trefousse Professor of History,...
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On Screen DANGER FROM BELOW BY JOHN SIMON The Hellstrom Chronicle is a documentary of the lives of various insects—chiefly ants, bees, termites, wasps, moths, butterflies, mayflies, spiders and...
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On Stage COMEDY AND THE DIVINE BY HARRIS GREEN LENNY BRUCE is vindicated by the untroubled success of Tom O'Horgan's latest skin show, Lenny, a phantasmagoric biography that suggests a musical...
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Dear Editor Brandt at Home It is understandable, of course, that West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's conservative opponents should take to accusing him of "neglect of domestic problems"...
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