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IssueVol. 041 Issue 010 (October 1 1977)
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Paid articleThe Spies Who Hate Us
Randal, The Editors and Harvey Wasserman, Harry C. Boyte, and Judith
COMMENT The Spies Who Hate Us Dear Bill, the letter begins, / regret taking so long to supply you with my thoughts on the problems which you raised when I saw you last. Rather than attempt to...
Paid articleWe Simply Sit… and Wait….'
Knoll, Erwin
'We Simply Sit.. .and Wait____' ERWIN KNOLL The Progressive devoted a dozen pages of its January 1977 issue to an article entitled "Behind Bars" — a detailed examination of conditions in the...
Paid articleThe Word from Washington
Getlein, Frank
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON In the old days, reporters used to fry eggs on the steps of City Hall to show how hot it was, and that was the summer's news. They were spared that culinary expedition this...
Paid articleHealth Care: The Problem Is Profits
D., Bernard Winter, M.
Health Care: The Problem Is Profits BERNARD WINTER, M.D. How can we have a "health-care crisis" in America when we spend such a massive portion of our private and public resources on health? Even...
Paid articleWorkplace Hazards: No Women Need Apply
McGhee, Dorothy
Workplace Hazards: No Women Need Apply DOROTHY McGHEE Vicky Read, twenty-two, was working at the Beaver County Hospital for the elderly, not far from her home in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Her...
Paid articleThe No-Win War against Cancer
Huebner, Albert L.
The No-Win War against Cancer ALBERT L. HUEB.NER The planned construction of a cancer hospital and research institute at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center has...
Paid articleThe Want is Willing
Mayer, Milton
The Want Is Willing It is 10:30 P.M. At 10:30 P.M. four weeks ago today — "How long has it been?" — "Four weeks ago today." — "Is it any better?" — "No, it's worse." — At 10:30 P.M. four weeks ago...
Paid articleThe Sorry State of the Labor Press
NADER, RALPH
Union newspapers could have an awesome impact/ but most just serve up in-house puffery The Sorry State of the Labor Press RALPH NADER Imagine two newspapers which reach more readers than either...
Paid articleReflections: On the Uses of Science
Day, Samuel H. Jr.
REFLECTIONS On the Uses of Science SAMUEL H. DAY JR. Alvin Weinberg, the noted physicist who heads the Institute for Energy Analysis at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, struck a responsive chord among many...
Paid articleA Question of Fault
Cottle, Thomas J.
A Question of Fault Thomas J. Cottle London Polly Davies is the smallest girl in her class; she always has been. She is thirteen now, but her height makes people think she is ten or eleven. It...
Paid articleThe Arms Race: A Primer
Lens, Sidney
A basic Q-and-A on survival in the nuclear age The Arms Race: A Primer SIDNEY LENS Q: Every President of the United States since Harry Truman has maintained that this nation's nuclear arsenal...
Paid articleSummer Fun with Karl and Fred
Poss, Stanley
Revolutionary aesthetics and other solemn doings in a California Girl Scout camp Summer Fun with Karl and Fred STANLEY POSS Reification. Petty bourgeois. Hegemony. Hypostatisation. Cooptation....
Paid articleAround the World
Holland, Jules Stewart, Bernard Wideman, Kai Bird, and Max
AROUND THE i WORLD Leftist Ground Swell in Spain Madrid Spain has consigned the memory of the June election to a dusty corner more remote than the recollection of Francisco Franco, the man who...
Paid articleBankers Milk the Third World
Stein, Jonathan Aronson and Elliot Jr.
Bankers Milk the Third World JONATHAN ARONSON and ELLIOT STEIN JR. A strange new international alliance is taking shape — an alliance made not of love and amity but of money and necessity. Those...
Paid articleLetter from the Valley
Borland, Hal
Letter from the Valley HAL BORLAND Dear Mary: Skip the idea of a September piece this time around. No go. September will just have to get along without my help, and I have a hunch it will be a...
Paid articleOnus for the Cold War
Bernstein, Barton J.
Onus for the Cold War BARTON j. BERNSTEIN Daniel Yergin, who has a recent doctorate from Cambridge University and is now a research fellow at Harvard, has sensitively crafted a moderately...
Paid articleRacism in Sway
Egerton, John
Racism in Sway A CHANCE TO LEARN:A HISTORY OF RACE AND EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, by Meyer Weinberg. Cambridge University Press. 480 pp. $27.50 hardcover; $6.95 paperback. JOHN EGERTON It...
Paid articleA People's History
True, Michael
A People's History THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE: ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES, edited by Robert Cooney and Helen Michalowski. Peace Press, 3828 Willat Avenue, Culver City, CA 90230. 240 pp....
Paid articleUp to Man
GRANT, WILLIAM
Up to Man OUT OF CHAOS, by Louis J. Halle. Houghton Mifflin. 657 pp. $20. WILLIAM GRANT In an era of increasingly fragmented and technical knowledge, Louis J. Halle aspires to the Renaissance...
Paid articleInsider on Chile
Schesch, Adam
Insider on Chile ALLENDE'S CHILE: AN INSIDE VIEW, by Edward Boorstein. International Publishers. 288 pp. $12.50 hardcover; $4.25 paperback. ADAM SCHESCH It is now four years since the overthrow...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly SEVEN WOMEN: PORTRAITS FROM THE AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION, by Judith Nies (Viking Press. 206 pp. $8.95). Sarah Grimke, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mother Jones, Charlotte...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Play It Again Here's looking at Richard Lipez, whose articles are a sight for sore eyes, a breath of fresh air, and the light at the end of the tunnel (no inference being made to his...
Paid articleEnd Game: Brothers in the News
Lipez, Richard
END GAME Brothers in the News RICHARD LIPEZ The Sunday feature pages of Izvestia are jam-packed this week with fresh news of the irresistible antics of Leonid Brezhnev's kooky kid brother,...
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