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IssueVol. 041 Issue 011 (November 1 1977)
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Paid articleEmployment: How Full Is 'Full'?
COMMENT Employment: How Full Is 'Full'? When Professor Herbert Stein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Nixon and Ford, he was an able and effective spokesman...
Paid articleThe Word from Washington
Getlein, Frank
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON For us unrehabilitated Watergate junkies, the week after Labor Day was old home week. Every night we could turn on the tube and there they all were again, scheming,...
Paid articleMust We Try for Blackout III?
Wicklein, John
Must We Try for Blackout III? JOHN WICKLEIN New York did not go black the night of July 13 because God smote Consolidated Edison with lightning. New York collapsed because, ever since Blackout I...
Paid articleBlack Progress' Myth and Ghetto Reality
Dreyfuss, Joel
'Black Progress' Myth and Ghetto Reality JOEL DREYFUSS It took a power blackout and the looting of New York City for America to rediscover its ghettos. The sense of deja vu was strong, a replay of...
Paid articleReflections: On Nationalism
Rossen, John
REFLECTIONS On Nationalism JOHN ROSSEN Among American intellectuals and progressives it has long been conventional wisdom that the twin evils of nationalism and patriotism are responsible for...
Paid articleHiroshima Echo
Kelsey, William C.
Hiroshima Echo WILLIAM G. KELSEY Hiroshima Peace Park is beautiful, especially during the cherry blossom season. One can relax, watch the reflection of trees in the canals, and almost forget that...
Paid articleForeign Agents in Our Midst
HANRAHAN, JOHN
Chile's DINA, Korea's KCIA, and Iran's SAVAK operate with impunity in the United States Foreign Agents in Our Midst JOHN D. HANRAHAN Thousands of alien residents of the United States and many...
Paid articleThe Letelier-Moffitt Mystery
Stein, Jeffrey
Mounting evidence suggests that Cuban exiles did the Chilean junta's dirty work The Letelier-Moffitt Mystery JEFFREY STEIN She sold the house in Bethesda and moved into the smaller one in...
Paid articleA Dollar for Dorothy
Mayer, Milton
A Dollar for Dorothy MILTON MAYER It's time I sent Dorothy another dollar. A dollar to Dorothy gets me 100 issues of The Catholic Worker. The Worker is published nine times a year, so a dollar is...
Paid articleOut There in America
Haslanger, Barry Jacobs, Kevin McAuliffe, Carol Polsgrove, and Phil
OUT THERE IN AMERICA 'He Didn't Know Half____' Durham, North Carolina Walking home from work on the evening of January 12, 1977, William Junior Spence stepped into the woods to urinate and found...
Paid articleAlcohol for Gasoline
Schinto, Jeanne
Oil companies and auto manufacturers resist a cheap and effective alternative fuel Alcohol for Gasoline JEANNE SCHINTO U.S. energy policymakers claim to be developing alternative fuels for the...
Paid articleMovies: 1900
Turan, Kenneth
MOVIES 1900 KENNETH TURAN Everyone should have a hobby, and mine is 1900. Not the year, silly, but the film by Bernardo Bertolucci. Ordinarily, one film wouldn't make much of a hobby, but not...
Paid articleChanting the Rituals of War
Young, Marilyn B.
Chanting the Rituals of War MARILYN B. YOUNG Philip Caputo's book, A Rumor of War, has been widely praised for its honesty, its power, and the truth it can teach us about Vietnam. Both the book...
Paid articleThey Left the Party
Davidon, Ann Morrissett
They Left the Party A FINE OLD CONFLICT, by Jessica Mitford. Alfred A. Knopf. 333 pp. $10. A RADICAL LIFE, by Vera Buch Weisbord. Indiana University Press. 323 pp. $15. ANN MORRISSETT...
Paid articleLives in Crisis
Rubenstein, Roberta
Lives in Crisis DANIEL MARTIN, by John Fowles. Little, Brown. 629 pp. $12.95. THE ICE AGE, by Margaret Drabble. Alfred A. Knopf. 295 pp. $8.95. ROBERTA RUBENSTEIN During one of many observations...
Paid articleThird World Ferment
MacEoin, Gary
Third World Ferment REVOLUTION IN THE THIRD WORLD: MYTHS AND PROSPECTS, by Gerard Chaliand. The Viking Press. 195 pp. $11.95. GARY MacEOIN As in his earlier books, Gerard Chaliand in Revolution...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly VISIONS OF UTOPIA: NASHOBA, RUGBY, RUSKIN, AND THE 'NEW COMMUNITIES' IN TENNESSEE'S PAST, by John Egerton (University of Tennessee Press, 95 pp. $3.50 paperback). This is a history of...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Radioactive Wastes Lois Wickstrom's letter in the September Progressive concerning ionization smoke detectors seemed to miss the point of McKinley C. Olson's article on smoke detectors in...
Paid articleEnd Game: Where Is It?
Lipez, Richard
END GAME Where Is It? RICHARD LIPEZ I knew when I accepted the assignment it would be a queer one, one of those puzzlers that leads from a question to a paradox to a blind alley and then back...
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