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 Vol. 036 Issue 011 (November 1 1972)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
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The PROGRESSIVE The Moment of Truth As you read this, millions of American voters will have arrived at that moment of truth when they not only must make a choice between Richard Nixon and George...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Notes in the News Lavelle Case Whitewash The Senate Armed Services Committee has wound up its investigation of the "unauthorized" air strikes conducted last fall and winter against North Vietnam...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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The Word from Washington "Few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate...
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POLITICS '72/McGOVERN'S ULTIMATE TEST
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WITCOVER, JULES
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POLITICS '72 THE ULTIMATE TEST FOR McGOVERN For anyone who saw George McGovern in the lonely days of 1970 and 1971, the contrast between then and now is full of irony. Then, his life was a series...
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GEORGE McGOVERN: A JEFFERSONIAN FOR OUR TIME
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Dugger, Ronnie
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GEORGE McGOVERN: A JEFFERSONIAN FOR OUR TIME RONNIE DUGGER George McGovern's record contains few surprises. That is what has caused his standing: He is a dedicated humanist of the liberal left....
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CHILE'S BUMPY ROAD TO SOCIALISM
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Goodsell, James Nelson
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CHILE'S BUMPY ROAD TO SOCIALISM JAMES NELSON GOODSELL Santiago Two years into his six-year presidency, Salvador Allen-de is in serious trouble. There is no mistaking the signs. The Chilean...
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SWEDEN'S QUEST FOR EQUALITY
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Dickson, Paul
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SWEDEN'S QUEST FOR EQUALITY PAUL DICKSON Zealous cliches to the contrary, Sweden is no Utopia. However, as a nation it has come to grips with the fundamental problems of hunger, unemployment,...
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THE POLITICS OF ABORTION
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D., Warren M. Hem, M.
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THE POLITICS OF ABORTION WARREN M. HERN, M.D. A year ago, New York City Councilwoman Carol Greitzer told the annual meeting of the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), of...
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PRESIDENTS AND THE PRESS
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Rivers, William L.
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PRESIDENTS AND THE PRESS WILLIAM L. RIVERS Knowledge wilt forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular...
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM
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Turan, Kenneth
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM KENNETH TURAN The youngest of the visual arts, film persists in acting its age. Like a know-it-all teenager in its relentless, humorless enthusiasm to be forever contemporary,...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Take Heart, McGovernites I have just come across some interesting political poll findings that may be of special interest to readers of The Progressive. Haynes Johnson,...
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THE MYSTIQUE OF BIGNESS
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ADAMS, WALTER
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BOOKS THE MYSTIQUE OF BIGNESS WALTER ADAMS In an industrial democracy, William O. Douglas warned, power that controls the economy should be decentralized. "It should be scattered into many hands...
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HEMLOCK'S LOADED PENCIL
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Knoll, Erwin
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HEMLOCK'S LOADED PENCIL Iherblock's state of the union, by Herbert Block. Simon and Schuster. 224 pp. $6.95. reviewed by Erwin Knoll You couldn't meet a nicer man than Herbert Block —...
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DAVIES' WORLDLY VIEW
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Young, Marilyn B.
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DAVIES' WORLDLY VIEW dragon by the tail, by John Paton Davies, Jr. W.W. Norton. 431 pp. $10. reviewed by Marilyn B. Young The frozen decade, 1950-1960, has begun fully and finally to thaw. Thus...
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LEGACY FROM OUR PAST
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Chametzky, Jules
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LEGACY FROM OUR PAST the dream and the deal: the federal writers' project, 19351943, by Jerre Mangione. Little, Brown. 416 pp. $12.50. reviewed by Jules Chametzky Jerre Mangione,...
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BUSING BUGABOOS
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Gillespie, David E.
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BUSING BUGABOOS busing & backlash, by Lillian B. Rubin. University of California Press. 255 pp. $7.95. reviewed by David E. Gillespie Historians of the Twenty-first Century may be curious to...
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THE CHANCES OF CHANGE
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Santoni, Ronald E.
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THE CHANCES OF CHANGE counterrevolution and revolt, by Herbert Marcuse. Beacon Press. 138 pp. $7.50. reviewed by Ronald E. Santoni Herbert Marcuse's new book is packed. Sentence after sentence...
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PAPERBACK PLUMS
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JEFFERS, ROBINSON
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PAPERBACK PLUMS And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens . . . —Robinson Jeffers Paperback protest shows no signs of sighing out. Some...
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