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Vol. 035 Issue 010 (October 1 1971)
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••Contents••
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The Tragic Vietnamese Farce
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The Tragic Vietnamese Farce The South Vietnamese farce which the governments in Saigon and Washington are pleased to call an "election" is scheduled to take place a few days after this issue of...
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Notes In The News
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Notes In The News Busing & Balderdash A cousin of Richard M. Nixon, rem- iniscing about his illustrious relative's childhood, once told a Life magazine interviewer that young Richard "didn't...
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The Word From Washington
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The Word from Washington Picking up the newspapers in our customary early-morning haze, we feel our eyes jumping nervously from the headlines to the date at the top of the front page. It is...
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Are The Democrats Serious About Reform?
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Glass, Andrew J.
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ARE THE DEMOCRATICS SERIOUS ABOUT REFORM? by ANDREW J. GLASS The Devil was sick—the Devil a monk would be. . . . A prosaic American counterpart to this old English rhyme might be: When...
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Thre Great Pension Fraud
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Nader, Ralf
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THE GREAT PENSION FRAUD BY RALPH NADER About 34,000 private pension plans, with combined assets totaling some $137 billion, are now in operation in the United States. Never in history has such a...
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Nixon's Old Economic Policy
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Eisner, Robert
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NIXON'S OLD ECONOMIC POLICY by ROBERT EISNER After maintaining a do-nothing, "prosperity-is-just-around-the-cor- ner" policy as long as it politically dared, the Nixon Administration finally did...
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A Brand New 'Missile Gap'
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Knoll, Erwin
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A BRAND NEW 'MISSILE GAP' by ERWIN KNOLL On Saturday, August 14, while President Nixon was putting the final touches to a "new economic pol- icy" designed, as he was to tell the na- tion the...
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A Bold Program For Clean Water
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Abzug, Bella S.
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A Bold Program for Clean Water by BELLA S. ABZUG Our nation's waters—our most pre- cious natural resource—are rap- idly being transformed into a vast, ran- cid sewer. Scarcely an uncontaminated...
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October And The Options
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Borland, Hal
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OCTOBER and the Options by Hal BORLAND Ever since the first deciduous tree •"-^ rose from the primeval ooze and there were birds and beasts to live in the woodland, there has been an an- nual...
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The Sorrows Of The Rich
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Mayer, Milton
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THE SORROWS OF THE RICH by MILTON MAYER London Where was Moses when the lights went out?— Down in the basement eating sauerkraut. —Ancient chantey The lights went out the...
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The New Blitz Againts Conservation
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WYANT, WILLIAM K. Jr.
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THE NEW BLITZ AGAINTS CONSERVATION by WILLIAM K. WYANT The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so. . . And all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row. —Through the Looking...
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Financial Crisis On The Capus
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Bullough, Vern L.
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Financial Crisis on the Campus by VERN L. BULLOUGH The halls of Academe are under fi- nancial siege these days. A recent survey by the Association of American Colleges of some 554 institutions...
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The People's Forum
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Vietnam an Issue Dear Sirs: I was much relieved to read Herbert Mitgang's September issue article, "The Politics of Vietnam." The fact is that I had become alarmed at the...
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America's Woes in the Sixties
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Meyer, Karl E.
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America's Woes in the Sixties by KARL E. MEYER It is one of the ironies of the 1960s in America that the decade saw a re- vival of passionate belief in Marxism, though its events confounded any...
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As a Scot Sees Us
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WHITMAN, CHARLES
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As a Scot Sees Us The Trouble with Americans, by Alexander Campbell. Praeger. 215 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Charles Whitman Only one thing will make Alexan- der Campbell's book obsolete:...
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Declining Britain
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KNAPPMAN, EDWARD W.
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Declining Britain Run It Down the Flagpole: Brit- ain in the Sixties, by Bernard Levin. Atheneum. 451 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Edward W. Knappman Excluding nations defeated in war, ^ Great...
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Exiles in Canada
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Weiner, Bernard
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Exiles in Canada The New Exiles: American War Re sisters in Canada, by Roger Neville Williams. Liveright. 401 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Bernard Weiner At a gruesome cost, the American J-*- war on...
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While Time Permits
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Rogers, Tommy W.
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While Time Permits Environment and Man, by Richard H. Wagner. W. W. Norton. 491 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Tommy W. Rogers The sudden awareness of ecological problems has resulted in efforts...
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The Hungry Brain
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Lahr, Anthea
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The Hungry Brain The Mind of Man, by Nigel Galder. The Viking Press. 288 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Anthea Lahr This is a wonderful book. It com- pletely transcends the dead frogs, test tubes,...
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Witty Scholarship
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Dick, Bernard F.
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Witty Scholarship Shakespeare's Lives, by S. Schoen- baum. Oxford University Press. 838 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Bernard F. Dick When a massive study of Shake- speare begins, "He died in...
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