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 Vol. 024 Issue 004 (April 1 1960)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
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PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" The Struggle for Civil Rights World headlines were focused on two parallel events in the United States during the past...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Richard L. Neuberger The sudden death of Senator Richard L. Neuberger has deprived the nation of one of its most thoughtful political figures and The Progressive of one of its most valued...
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HUBERT HORATIO HUMPHREY
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Amrine, Michael
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HUBERT HORATIO HUMPHREY by MICHAEL AMRINE This is the seventh of a series of articles exploring Presidential possibilities for 1960. Mr. Amrine, Washington correspondent, novelist, and editor for...
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IS EVERYBODY HAPPY?
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Wechsler, James A.
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One may advance a variety of diagnoses for the malaise that afflicts the politics of our time, alternately driving young men and women into the comfortable refuges of suburbia and the beatnik joints...
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THE BEATING OF BOB BEAME
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Abbott, William
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THE BEATING OF BOB BEAME by WILLIAM ABBOTT Robert Dixon Beame stared after the man who was disappearing into the stiff night air. "Fired for wanting a union!" he thought bitterly. "Here's a guy...
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STRUGGLE FOR WISCONSIN
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McMillin, Miles
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The Humphrey-Kennedy Race Struggle for Wisconsin by MILES McMILLIN Anything can happen in a state that in one brief decade can swing its choice for Senator from a LaFollette to a McCarthy to a...
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THOSE DOUBTING ASIANS
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Mears, Helen
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Those Doubting Asians by HELEN MEARS One evening recently I was at home brooding about international relations. Just before leaving on one of his good will tours President Eisenhower had made a...
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WHO DOESN'T FIGHT FOR FREEDOM?
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Mayer, Milton
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The Two Worlds Who doesn H fight for freedom? by MILTON MAYER This is the last of a series of three articles by Milton Mayer, whose recent and extended travels took him and his family not only...
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THE AFFLUENCE PEDDLERS
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Halsey, Margaret
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The Affluence Peddlers by MARGARET HALSEY We have been hearing a great deal recently about fin-tail cars and too much comfort; but for all the sermonizing there seem to be no signs of a shift in...
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON THE WAY OUT
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Berman, Daniel M.
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Capital Punishment Is on the Way Out ......................................... by DANIEL M. BERMAN Several states, notably California as a consequence of the celebrated Chessman case, have...
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THE CASE FOR DISARMAMENT
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Swomley, John Jr.
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The Case for Disarmament by JOHN SWOMLEY, JR. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's address to the United Nations last September made disarmament a subject of renewed discussion and hope. It was at a...
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CHEMICALS & CANCER
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Netboy, Anthony
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chemicals fa cancer by ANTHONY NETBOY Although widely feared, cancer, at the turn of the century, was not regarded as a major killer in the United States. In 1900, it was only seventh among the...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Fateful Decision Dear Sirs: At the time of the first Pugwash Conference of nuclear scientists, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain were the sole possessors...
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Light on Democracy
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
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Light on Democracy Political Man: How and Why Democracy Works in the Modern World, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Doubleday. 432 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Once, when we had...
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Red Retreat
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Goldbloom, Maurice J .
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Red Retreat The Decline of American Communism, by David Shannon. Har-court, Brace. 425 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Maurice J. Goldbloom There is no shortage of books on the American Communist Party....
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Schools in Trouble
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Cremin, Lawrence A.
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Schools in Trouble The Child, the Parent and the State, by James Bryant Conant. Harvard. 211 pp. $3.50. The Future of Public Education, by Myron Lieberman. Chicago. 294 pp. $5. Reviewed...
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Fiction Notes
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Schickel, Richard
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Fiction Notes by Richard Schickel It has been a dreary month in a dreary decade of fiction. Of the two dozen or so works sent me for consideration only the uncommonly small number of four survived...
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