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Vol. 030 Issue 006 (June 1 1966)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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RETREAT AT HOME
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PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" Retreat at Home "President Johnson has repeatedly reaffirmed to Congress and the country the position he proclaimed in his...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Notes in the News A Dangerous Course Two ominous words—"no sanctuary" —can fly the American people at supersonic speed right over the brink into a war with China and possibly World War III. That...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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The Word from Washington We have been wallowing in self-pity this spring, and the blame rests with that Anonymous Associate of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, whose thankless task it...
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THE OTHER WAR: A FRONTLINE REPORT
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Johnson, Haynes
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The Other War: A Frontline Report by HAYNES JOHNSON "Poverty, as the army of experts likes ·*· to remind us, is a phenomenon of many dimensions. It is also one truth: poverty is always personal....
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A WEEK IN SAIGON
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Muste, A. J.
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A Week in Saigon by A. J. MUSTE Punch of London recently published a cartoon which was reproduced in The New York Times of May 1, 1966. It shows a huge wall across the upper part of which is...
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THE CONTAINMENT OF IDEAS
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Lasch, Robert
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Pulitzer Prize Editorial The Containment of Ideas by ROBERT LASCH The Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing went this year to Robert Lasch, editor of the editorial page of the St....
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THE NEW LEFT-AND THE OLD
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Lens, Sidney
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The New Left—and the Old by SIDNEY LENS Tn april of last year, when the Students for a Democratic Society had mobilized 25,000 young people from around the country for a demonstration in...
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THE PROFESSOR'S PROBLEM
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Mayer, Milton
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The Professor's Problem by MILTON MAYER ? am now engaged in grading my students prime, choice, good, commercial or unfit for human consumption. Among them are my unmarried male students between...
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CALIFORNIA'S CRAZY CAMPAIGN
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Hager, Philip
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CALIFORNIAS CRAZY CAMPAIGN by PHILIP HAGER The man in the shiny gray suit stood before a restless crowd of college students waving signs of support or opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam. As the...
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LIBERALS AND FOREIGN POLICY
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
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LIBERALS and FOREIGN POLICY by JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH This article is adapted from Mr. Galbraith's keynote address before the nineteenth annual convention of Americans for Democratic Action in...
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BEYOND DE GAULLE
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Barry, Joseph
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Beyond DeGaulle by JOSEPH BARRY Paris " A re you consulting us," President Charles de Gaulle asked Dean Acheson, who had been speeded to Paris by President Kennedy during the Cuban missile...
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THE RIGHT TO DIE
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Greenberg, Selig
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The Right to Die by SELIG GREENBERG Qhould a new right—the right to ^ die—be added to the triad of "inalienable rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? This crucial and prickly...
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SO LONG, PENELOPE
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Serwer, Arnold
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So Long, Penelope by ARNOLD SERWER "Homer is not a very good writer. He should rewrite the Odyssey with more up-to-date incidents." —A child's comment to Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Insist on Action Dear Sirs: Readers of The Progressive are doubtless aware of the important breakthroughs that recently have been made in the Delano, California, grape...
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The Water Crisis
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Nelson, Senator Gaylord
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BOOKS The Water Crisis Death of the Sweet Waters, by Donald E. Carr. W. W. Norton. 257 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Senator Gaylord Nelson Tf anyone still doubts the cries of alarm sounded by...
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Sense on Vietnam
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Wick, Joseph E.
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Sense on Vietnam Peace in Vietnam: A New Approach in Southeast Asia, a report prepared for the american friends service committee. Hill and Wang. 112 pp. Cloth, $3. Paper, 95 cents. Vietnam:...
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Race and Rights
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Osofsky, Gilbert
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Race and Rights From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s, by Arthur I. Waskow. Doubleday. 380 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Gilbert Osofsky T^he year of 1919 was one of radical hell in America....
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Death on Wheels
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Page, Joseph A.
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Death on Wheels Unsafe at Any Speed: The De-signed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, by Ralph Nader. Grossman. 365 pp. $5.95. Safety Last: An Indictment of the Auto Industry, by Jeffrey...
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Hemingway Alone
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Dienstfrey, Harris
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Hemingway Alone Papa Hemingway, by A. E. Hotch-ner. Random House. 304 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Harris Dienstfrey AÅ. Hotchner met Hemingway • in 1948, when Hotchner, on the staff of Cosmopolitan...
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Macabre Wit
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Johnson, Lucy
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Macabre Wit Mother Night, by Kurt Vormegut, Jr. Harper & Row. 202 pp. $4.95. Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 222 pp. $5. Reviewed by Lucy Johnson TVThile Vladimir Nabokov's...
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Paperback Plums
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Paperback Plums "TVeeply seated in the human heart ^ is the liking for gardens and gardening. It is the purest of human pleasures, said Francis Bacon. Here are some paperbacks with advice and...
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