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 Vol. 036 Issue 010 (October 1 1972)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 FOUR MORE YEARS?
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The PROGRESSIVE Four More Years? It is an ancient axiom of American Presidential politics that you cannot fool all the people all the time, but if you manage to fool them once, it's good for four...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Notes in the News For This We Kill Biggest Raids of Offensive Hit North Viets. Variations of that headline have been appearing with depressing regularity since last May, when President Nixon sent...
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FORTY MONTHS OF FAILURE
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Elder, Joseph W.
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orty Months of Failure Forty months ago Henry Kissinger told five of us—directors of the American Friends Service Committee—who met with him at a closed-door session in the White House that he and...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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The Word from Washington "I didn't realize there'd be all this hullabaloo when I got back," says Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. He has just returned from North Vietnam,...
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POLITICS '72/LURE FOR CATHOLICS
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Curran, Robert
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POLITICS '72 LURE FOR CATHOLICS During the 1960 Presidential campaign, a pundit facetiously asked John Kennedy, "Do you think a Protestant can be elected President in 1960?" Rarely bested by...
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FRIEND NIXON
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Mayer, Milton
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FRIEND NIXON MILTON MAYER We writing hacks used to say that the ideal title for a Reader's Digest piece would be "Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Dog." In the "Checkers" speech of the 1952...
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BLOCK'S LAW: 'IF IT'S GOOD, THEY'LL STOP MAKING IT'
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Block, Herbert
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BLOCK'S LAW: 'If it's good, they'll stop making it' HERBERT BLOCK If our environmental fate is sealed, it will probably be in triple-reinforced packaging. Everything has been carefully contained...
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THE NIXON COURT: JUST ONE MORE VOTE
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Schardt, Arlie
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THE NIXON COURT: JUST ONE MORE VOTE ARLIE SCHARDT "/ am proud of the appointments I have made to the courts and particularly to the Supreme Court. I pledge again tonight, as I did four years ago,...
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HOW THE RUSSIANS WON IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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McGrory, Mary
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HOW THE RUSSIANS WON IN THE MIDDLE EAST MARY McGRORY The big diplomatic ripoff of the century has just occurred. In Egypt, the Russians stole George Aiken's six-year-old idea for Vietnam: say the...
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THE NIXON FORMULA FOR CRIPPLING REGULATORS
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Reinemer, Vic
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THE NIXON FORMULA FOR CRIPPLING REGULATORS VIC REINEMER Years of politicking by the natural gas industry paid off handsomely several months ago. On August 2, the Federal Power Commission took...
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OCTOBER: AN HOUR OF TRIUMPH
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Borland, Hal
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OCTOBER: AN HOUR OF TRIUMPH HAL BORLAND It is always dangerous to draw large conclusions from minor events, so I will merely point out that the harvest moon, the first full moon of autumn, this...
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THE REBELLION OF BLUE COLLAR YOUTH
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Levison, Andrew
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THE REBELLION OF BLUE COLLAR YOUTH ANDREW LEVISON Lewis is a twenty-four-year-old factory worker with the greased hair and white T-shirt that are cliches of blue collar youth. When he quit his...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE McGOVERN
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Spock, Benjamin
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'we will welcome you ...' AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE McGOVERN BENJAMIN SPOCK Dear Senator McGovern : Wherever I go campaigning for the Peoples Party, somebody asks "But why don't you support...
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THE RETURN OF WALKIE
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Werner, Alfred
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E RETURN OF WALKIE ALFRED WERNER "The only real life is the life of fame." Artists may not be familiar with this Sanskrit proverb, but they act on it nevertheless. They will do almost anything to...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'A Flow of Garbage' The Progressive has rendered a public service in publishing "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Jeremy Rifkin and Erwin Knoll in its September issue. Votes and...
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THE PRESIDENCY AND POWER
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Knoll, Erwin
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BOOKS THE PRESIDENCY AND POWER ERWIN KNOLL The country would be in much better shape, Eugene McCarthy observed during his 1968 campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, if its...
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ALL ABOUT NADER
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Henning, Joel F.
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ALL ABOUT NADER nader: the people's lawyer, by Robert F. Buckhorn. Prentice-Hall. 310 pp. $6.95. citizen nader, by Charles McCarry. Saturday Review Press. 335 pp. $7.95. the investigation...
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FREE SCHOOLS FOR WHAT!
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Altbach, Philip G.
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FREE SCHOOLS FOR WHAT! Ifree schools, by Jonathan Kozol. Houghton Mifflin. 146 pp. $4.95. reviewed by Philip G. Altbach At last, a practical, critical, and analytic book by a friend of the free...
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ENGINEERS AND ECOLOGY
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Sears, Paul B.
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ENGINEERS AND ECOLOGY Idams and other disasters. a century of the army corps of engineers in civil works, by Arthur E. Morgan. Porter Sargent. 422 pp. $7.50. reviewed by Paul B. Sears Engineering...
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