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IssueVol. 037 Issue 004 (April 1 1973)
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Paid articleTurning Back The Clock
COMMENT TURNING BACK THE CLOCK In 1923, Calvin Coolidge observed that the business of America is business. Now, a half century later, that cramped concept of the role of government has been...
Paid articleThe Word From Washington
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The subtle (and not-so-subtle) racism that pervaded official American attitudes throughout the Vietnam war—see the frequent references in the Pentagon Papers—persists into...
Paid articleHow It All Began
Halberstam, David
HOW IT ALL BEGAN DAVID HALBERSTAM In his recent book, "The Best and the Brightest," Mr. Halberstam shows how men of reason and high purpose were trapped by a pattern of events which led them, in...
Paid articleOil: Our Private Government
Stern, Laurence
Oil Our Private Government LAURENCE STERN The Lewis Flagg Affair The deed was done in one of those obscure back wards of the Federal bureaucracy, the Oil Import Appeals Board. The subject (or...
Paid articleOil: How It Raids The Treasury
Stern, Philip M.
Oil How It Raids the Treasury PHILIP M. STERN Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, of Dallas, Texas, starting with a borrowed $50 for a broken-down oil-drilling rig, managed, with the help of Lady Luck (and...
Paid articleOil: Capitalism Betrayed In Its Own Camp
Harris", "Fred, R.
Oil Capitalism Betrayed in Its Own Camp FRED R. HARRIS Some Indian tribes once used petroleum as a medicine. And when I was young, we put kerosene—"coal oil," we called it—on cuts and scratches...
Paid articleHomecoming In Vienna
Knoll, Erwin
HOMECOMING IN VIENNA ERWIN KNOLL This is mainly about two very important oranges that I bought at an outdoor fruit-stand in Vienna on January 20, 1973. The oranges were important, of course, only...
Paid articleThe Key To Peace In Vietnam
Dinh, Tran Van
THE KEY TO PEACE IN VIETNAM TRAN VAN DINH The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. . . . Henry A. Kissinger in Foreign Affairs, January, 1969 The...
Paid articleAnticipatory Socialism
Mayer, Milton
ANTICIPATORY SOCIALISM MILTON MAYER I have it from usually—hell, invariably—reliable sources that the ripoff (known among the kids as Anticipatory Socialism) has not subsided with the subsidence...
Paid articleWhitehead? Who'S Whitehead?
Duscha, Julius
WHITEHEAD? WHO'S WHITEHEAD? JULIUS DUSCHA In little more than two years as the controversial director of the Nixon Administration's Office of Telecommunications Policy, and with absolutely no...
Paid articleAre The Radicals Ruining Berkeley?
Duscha, Steve
ARE THE RADICALS RUINING BERKELEY? STEVE DUSCHA Berkeley The radical "takeover" of Berkeley is two years old this April, and the city is still trying to decide what to make of it. Radicals have...
Paid articleThe Way It Was
THE WAY IT WAS Beginning with this issue, The Progressive will publish flashbacks to articles and editorials written during its sixty-four-year history—whenever space permits. We have tampered with...
Paid articleCompany Town At FDA
White, Michael Jacobson and Robert
COMPANY TOWN AT FDA MICHAEL JACOBSON and ROBERT WHITE Dr. Edwin Goldenthal spent last summer in the Stafford (Virginia) county jail. Goldenthal was formerly Deputy Director in the Food and Drug...
Paid articleRacialism In Black Africa
Robertson, Phillip Whitten and Ian
RACIALISM IN BLACK AFRICA PHILLIP WHITTEN and IAN ROBERTSON For Africa, the late Fifties and the Sixties were an era of excitement and promise. In dozens of countries, people who for generations...
Paid articleLetters
UTTERS 'Stab in the Back' Rerun It is reported (The New York Times, February 4) that subsequent to the signing of the cease-fire a number of Administration spokesmen have publicly and strongly...
Paid articleMalcolm X And History
Peeks, Edward
BOOKS Malcolm X and History the death and life of malcolm x, by Peter Goldman. Harper & Row. 438 pp. $8.95. world's great men of color, by J. A. Rogers. Macmillan. Vols. I and II, 431 and 564...
Paid articleInsights On Our Times
Mitgang, Herbert
Insights on Our Times sixties going on seventies, by Nora Sayre. Arbor House. 419 pp. $9.95. disturbers of the peace, by Col-man McCarthy. Houghton Mifflin. 208 pp. $5.95. reviewed by Herbert...
Paid articleExploited Islands
Conconi, Charles N.
Exploited Islands RAPE OF THE AMERICAN VIRGINS, by Edward A. O'Neill. Praeger Publishers. 216 pp. $6.95. reviewed by Charles N. Conconi On January 15, 1973, the fifteen-man Virgin Islands...
Paid articleCivil Rights Politics
Griffith, Robert
Civil Rights Politics the politics of civil rights in the truman administration, by William C. Berman. Ohio State University Press. 261 pp. $8. reviewed by Robert Griffith The greatest challenge...
Paid articleRole Of The Eggheads
Altbach, Philip G.
Role of the Eggheads the intellectuals and the powers and other essays, by Edward Shils. University of Chicago Press. 481 pp. $12.50. reviewed by Philip G. Altbach Without question, sociologist...
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