Washington-USA THE COATTAIL ELECTIONS BY ANDREW MOLLISON Washington This year's Senate and House elections are adding several new twists to the American institution of political coattails....
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Poker Rights "That does it! " exploded Pagliacci, and he flung his three 10s at Othello, whose little straight had just taken the big pot. Sweeping in the chips,...
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THIRD WORLD REPORT-II A Wager in West Africa BY WILLIAM MCCORD This article is the second in an intermittent series that will compare the achievements of liberal and authoritarian Third World...
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The Dismal Science BIG IS UGY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Continental Illinois and the Financial Corporation of America bailouts, although different in nature, have one glaringly obvious lesson...
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Writers & Writing INNOCENCE ABROAD BY BARRY GEWEN Although Jonathan Kwitny scarcely mentions Jeane J. Kirkpatrick by name, his Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World (Congdon&Weed,...
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Belated Justice Josephine Herbst By Elinor Longer Atlantic/Little Brown. 374pp. $19.95. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Biographer and critic; author, "Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda...
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Trial and Error The Haymarket Tragedy By Paul Avrich Princeton. 535 pp. $29.50. Reviewed by George Woodcock Author, "Anarchism," "The Writer and Politics" The May 4,1886, Haymarket bombing in...
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Mixed Achievement Hubert Humphrey By Carl Solberg Norton. 572 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Only one statute has Hubert Humphrey's name attached to it: the Humphrey-Hawkins...
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On Screen DEATH IN A TIN CANISTER BY DAPHNE MERKIN I doubt that anyone has figured out why one piece of summer fluff manages to stick around for ages, while another floats off into the ether,...
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Dear Editor Anti'Semitism Having long been an admirer of Richard J. Margolis' "States of the Union" column, I read his piece on "The Big Lie in Iowa" (NL, August 6) with great dismay, even...
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