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 Vol. 034 Issue 005 (May 1 1970)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Gray Society
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PROGRESSIVE "YOU shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" The Gray Society Some years ago, Saul D. Alinsky, who pioneered in organizing power blocs among the poor, wrote a...
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NOTES in the NEWS
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NOTES in the NEWS The Widening War There is something depressingly familiar about the rapidly unfolding sequence of events in Southeast Asia. While Secretary of State William Rogers assures the...
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The Word from Washington
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The Word from Washington Before Judge G. Harrold Carswell slips back into the richly deserved obscurity from which President Nixon tried, unfortunately, to rescue him, it ought to be acknowledged...
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New Left vs. New Right:The False Choice
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Wechsler, James A.
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New Left vs. New Right: The False Choice by JAMES A. WECHSLER Tt seems a long time ago since we heard a newly elected President of the United States named Richard M. Nixon proclaim a gospel of...
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The Meaning of the Chicago Trial
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Chapman, William
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The Meaning of the Chicago Trial by WILLIAM CHAPMAN There are moments in any adventure when something happens to illuminate and place in perspective that which has gone before. It may be some...
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The Slimmest Hand in Town
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MAYNARD, ROBERT C.
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The Despair of Young Blacks The Slimmest Hand in Town by ROBERT C. MAYNARD Language is a series of communication modes. Certainly black people rely on styles of expression that differ sharply...
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Who Stole the Peace Dividend?'
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Knoll, Erwin
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Who Stole the Peace Dividend?' by ERWIN KNOLL President Nixon's proposed Federal budget for the fiscal year starting next July 1 is a 611-page document, supplemented by a 1095-page appendix and a...
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The Pill and the Public's Right to Know
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Mintz, Morton
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The Pill and the Public's Right to Know by MORTON MINTZ Touring the recent hearings on The Pill, spokesmen for population control organizations charged that vast numbers of women were being scared...
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Against Sin
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Mayer, Milton
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Against Sin by MILTON MAYER "TT'ollow not a multitude to do evil," is what the Lord God Jehovah told my ancestor Jeremiah. I make bold to cut it down to, "Follow not a multitude." If the Silent...
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CUBA Notes on a Revolution
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HOCHSCHILD, ADAM
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CUBA Notes on a Revolution by ADAM HOCHSCHILD Havana The first thing that surprises you is that no one is uptight about symbols of the old order. My room key says, "Havana Hilton. Drop in...
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Our Wide Open Spaces
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WYANT, WILLIAM K. Jr.
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Public Lands at Stake Our Wide Open Spaces by WILLIAM K. WYANT, JR. The Public Land Law Review Commission, set up by Congress in 1964, is working frantically these days to finish a report that...
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An Hour in Wonderland
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LAMPERTI, JOHN
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An Hour in Wonderland by JOHN LAMPERTI "The question is" said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Hump-ty Dumpty, "which is to be...
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No One Hears Our Silence'
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STEINER, STAN
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Report from Arizona 'No One Hears Our Silence' by STAN STEINER Silence has come to the vineyards in the desert. A season of solstice. The old vines are as twisted as the bones of black...
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Jet Smoke:Conquest by Camouflage
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HOWARD, WILLIAM E.
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Jet Smoke: Conquest by Camouflage by WILLIAM E. HOWARD The strategy for President Nixon's war on pollution has been cast, and his problem now is to win some battles. Sewer cleaners need to show a...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'The Crisis of Survival' Dear Sirs: Once again, The Progressive has performed a major service in devoting an issue to a problem of paramount importance. I refer to the April...
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Only on Tap
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Feld, Bernard T.
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BOOKS Only on Tap The Great Weapons Heresy, by Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. Houghton Mifflin. 275 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Bernard T. Feld J. Robert Oppenheimer is well on the way to being enshrined as...
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Why Blame History?
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O'Neill, William L
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Why Blame History? The Uncompleted Past, by Martin Duberman. Random House. 374 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Martin Duberman is a good man who has worried about the right things all...
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Schools to Learn in
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Berube, Maurice R.
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Schools to Learn in Radical School Reform, edited by Ronald and Beatrice Gross. Simon & Schuster. 350 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Maurice R. Berube This is an admirable book. If anyone exists in...
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The Whole Child
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Pendleton, Elsa
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The Whole Child The Lives of Children, by George Dennison. Random House. 308 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Elsa Pendleton For many young parents, the search for the right school (or the correct...
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'Our Crazy Species'
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Hughes, Catharine
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'Our Crazy Species' Mr. Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow. Viking Press. 313 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Catharine Hughes God may or may not be in His Heaven, but obviously all is not right with Mr....
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