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Vol. 035 Issue 009 (September 1 1971)
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Limping from Crisis to Crisis
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The PROGRESSIVE "you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" Limping from Crisis to Crisis When readers of The New Yorker used to complain that the mag- azine was not so good...
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Notes in the News
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Notes in the News The Corporate Dole While the Nixon Administration, Congress, state and local officials, and much of the public at large are wring- ing their hands about the mounting costs of...
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The Word From Washington
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The Word from Washington Will he or won't he? Will President Nixon retain Spiro Agnew as his run- ning-mate in 1972, or will he dump him in favor of some more palat- able Vice Presidential...
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The Meaning of Nixon's China Coup
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Karnow, Stanley
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THE MEANING OF NIXON'S CHINA COUP by STANLEY KARNOW Early in the evening of July 15, only a few hours before President Nixon dramatically annnounced his in- tended visit to China, the head of the...
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The High Cost of Secrecy
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FULBRIGHT, SENATOR J. W.
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THE HIGH COST OF SECRECY by SENATOR J.W. FULBRIGHT The term "credibility gap," which we have heard so frequently in recent years, is a tame euphemism for a deep malady of our society. The mal-...
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In The Course of Human Events
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Font, Louis P.
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'In the course of human events...' by LOUIS P. FONT On July 9, 1776, by order of Gen- eral of the Army George Wash- ington, the Declaration of Indepen- dence was read to soldiers assembled on...
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Monitoring Media: Who Shall Guard The Guards?
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Rivers, William L.
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MONITORING MEDIA 'Who Shall Guard the Guards?' by WILLIAM L. RIVERS It is ironic that just when the mass media have won important vic- tories over their historic adversary, government, they...
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The Politics of Vietnam
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Mitgang, Herbert
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THE POLITICS OF VIETNAM by HERBERT MITGANG Washington, D.C. Will Vietnam be an issue in the 1972 Presidential primaries, con- ventions, and election? Although President Nixon and the...
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The Grace of God in Spain
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Mayer, Milton
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THE GRACE OF GOD IN SPAIN by MILTON MAYER Alicante, Spain If I was going to see Harry—and I was—I was going to have to see him in Spain. Harry cares not who makes a country's laws, let him...
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Blacks in College: The Most Exciting Around
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Steif, William
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BLACKS IN COLLEGE: 'the most exciting thing around' by WILLIAM STEIF Elias Blake is tall, black, and bright. He directs the Institute for Services to Education, a Washington- based...
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James Michener's Knent State: A Study of Distortion
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Roberts, Joe Eszterhas and Michael
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James Michener's Kent State A STUDY IN DISTORTION by JOE ESZTERHAS and MICHAEL ROBERTS One year after that long burst of gunfire at Kent State University, the circumstances of the shooting...
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When Artist Protest
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Werner, Alfred
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WHEN ARTISTS PROTEST by ALFRED WERNER MODERN Western art can be clas- sified under two headings. One consists of objects without an overt purpose except that of expressing the artist's extremely...
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The People's Forum
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM The Pentagon Papers Dear Sirs: Congratulations to both The Progres- sive arid Erwin Knoll for his August issue article, "What We Know Now." It is the most succinct study...
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'The Nearness of Armageddon'
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Falk, Richard A.
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'The Nearness of Armageddon' by RICHARD A. FALK Justice William O. Douglas is one of the few public figures in the United States who qualifies as a hero of our times. Almost as an imprimatur of...
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Empires and Mao
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Ness, Peter Van
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Empires and Mao China and Russia: the 'Great Game,' by O. Edmund Clubb. Colum- bia University Press. 578 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Peter Van Ness O. Edmund Clubb, veteran of twen- ty years'...
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Hapless Haiti
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Goodsell, James Nelson
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Hapless Haiti Haiti : The Politics of Squalor, by Robert I. Rotberg with Christopher K. Clague. Houghton Mifflin. 456 pp. $10. Reviewed by James Nelson Goodsell There is a timeliness about...
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Tools of Learning
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Pendleton, Elsa
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Tools for Learning What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt. Dutton. 318 pp. $6.95. This Book Is About Schools, edited by Satu Repo. Pantheon. 457 pp. $7.95. The Soft Revolution, by Neil Post- man and...
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On the Wing
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Hugnes, Catherine
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On the Wing Birds of America, by Mary McCar- thy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 344 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Catharine Hughes Why is it, I wonder, that Mary McCarthy—in essays, in inter- views,...
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