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Vol. 040 Issue 009 (September 1 1976)
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••Cover Page••
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The Politics of Conformity
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COMMENT The Politics of Conformity President Ford's most significant contribution to the Bicentennial hoopla, judging from the way it was promoted by the public relations experts on the White...
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The Word from Washington
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The halls of Congress echo an eerie silence. Gone are the gnome-like Congressional aides toting stacks of important-looking file folders through the corridors. Gone are...
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The Democrats: Winning Is the Only Thing
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SAYRE, NORA
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The Democrats: Winning Is the Only Thing NORASAYRE New York Some swore that Madison Square Garden still reeked of elephants just before it was cleansed for the Democratic festival; as one circus...
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Reflections: On a Nation that Endures
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Dinh, Tran Van
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REFLECTIONS On a Nation that Endures TRAN VAN DINH When a final history of the Vietnam war is written, it will be judged the most barbaric of all wars. It was barbaric not only because Vietnam...
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Back to Basics
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Egerton, John
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Back to Basics JOHN EGERTON Of all the institutions in American society, education is the most susceptible to trends, fads, innovations, and panaceas. Governments change leaders, but the immutable...
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Ph.D.-The New Migrant
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Spitzer, Daniel C.
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Ph.D.—The New Migrant DANIEL C. SPITZER The specter of a new species of migrant stalks our land. The new migrant's work—if he or she can find any—is seasonal, like that of the fruit-picking...
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Wasting Black Minds
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Golsan, Lucy B.
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Wasting Black Minds LUCY B. GOLSAN "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," intones the deep voice on a recent radio and television commercial designed to raise money for black colleges. A young man...
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Oil on the Campus
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Dyne, Larry Van
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Oil on the Campus LARRY VAN DYNE When the Shah of Iran visited Washington in 1949— back in those easeful days before he assumed, with a CIA boost, the time-consuming burdens of dictatorship —he...
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Tim Thompson's Private Cold War
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Viorst, Milton
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Tim Thompson's Private Cold War MILTON VIORST Kabul, Afghanistan Tim Thompson is a slight, blond, intense young man who, for a year, has been a target of a private cold war waged against him by...
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Out There in America
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Hogan, Marcus J. Albrecht, Mark Pinsky, Kris Kridel, and Paul M.
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OUT THERE IN AMERICA Labor Day in a Miners' Town St. Louis There is a famous drawing of the first Labor Day parade in New York City. The artist has recorded history—the streets packed with a...
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Almost Making It
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Mayer, Milton
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Almost Making It MILTON MAYER The disclosure that American newspapermen in communist countries have been moonlighting for the CIA, and free-lance newspapermen especially, hits me where I live....
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Europe's Central Issue: The Communists' Role
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Rossi, Mario
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Europe's Central Issue: The Communists' Role MARIO ROSSI The Italian election held in June has not resolved the problem of Communist party participation in the governments of Italy, France, and...
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The Summer Revolution
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Borland, Hal
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The Summer Revolution HAL BORLAND Bicentennial Summer: That's what we kept hearing it called, as though that made the days longer or the grass greener or the moon brighter. Here in lower New...
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Art: Spumoni Village
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McDaniel, Charles-Gene
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Spumoni Village CHARLES-GENE McDANIEL Spumoni Village does not appear on any map, and probably never will. It existed only briefly as a tangible place—a place of joy and celebration. It doubtless...
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Movies: The Future Revisited
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES The Future Revisited KENNETH TURAN For reasons that are probably best left unexamined, a man named Walt Lee has spent a good part of his life compiling a three-volume Reference Guide to...
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'Socialism and Marx Deserve Better'
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TAYLOR, RICHARD K.
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'Socialism and Marx Deserve Better' RICHARD K. TAYLOR Take the following test as a clue to your enjoyment of Michael Harrington's new book; if, like me, you score under five, your reaction will be...
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Talking Back
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McAULIFFE, KEVIN
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Talking Back THE GOOD GUYS, THE BAD GUYS, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT, by Fred W. Friendly. Random House. 269 pp. $10. KEVIN McAULIFFE When James Madison and the framers of the First Amendment...
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A Giant's World
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Rubin, Morris H.
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A Giant's World THE WORLD OF A GIANT CORPORATION, by John Woodmansee and colleagues. North Country Press, P.O. Box 12,223, Seattle, WA 98112. $1.95. MORRIS H. RUBIN Few institutions are so...
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The Legal Elite
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BERNSTEIN, BARTON J .
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The Legal Elite UNEQUAL JUSTICE, by Jerold S. Auerbach. Oxford University Press. 395 pp. $13.95. BARTON J. BERNSTEIN It is a socially useful myth, proclaimed in bar association addresses and...
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Africa's Niger
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WARRENHOWE, RUSSELL
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Africa's Niger THE STRONG BROWN GOD, by Sanche de Gramont. Houghton, Mifflin. 350 pp. $12.50. RUSSELL WARREN HOWE Africa has produced no explorers or navigators of its own, unless one counts an...
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Numb Americans
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CANTOR, DANIEL
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Numb Americans BEYOND OUR CONTROL, by Tom Engelhardt. Photographs by Peter Whitney. Riverrun Press, 2636 Regent Street, Berkeley, CA 94704.189 pp. $4.95 paperback. DANIEL CANTOR We are, it is...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly FBI: AN UNCENSORED LOOK BEHIND THE WALLS, by Sanford J. Ungar (Atlantic-Little, Brown. 682 pp. $14.95). On late-night television you can still catch the reruns of the old,...
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Letters
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LETTERS The Political Spectrum I am writing this in hopes of waking up at least The Progressive to the active independent candidacy of Eugene McCarthy for President. It is a legitimate campaign,...
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End Game: Remedies
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Llpez, Richard
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END CAME Remedies RICHARD LIPEZ Doc Fitzgerald's Laboratories (a division, since 1971, of Hurtlebutt-Snopesack International Industries of Houston and Djiboutie) has just released its midyear...
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