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 Vol. 042 Issue 002 (February 1 1978)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Comment
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Zeldin, The Editors and Lea
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COMMENT Humpty Dumptian Semantics Paul Dickson, writing in this magazine some six years ago about the quaint terminology deployed by the Pentagon to describe the actions of U.S. forces in Vietnam,...
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The Word from Washington
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Cetlein, Frank
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The Ninety-fifth Congress is out for half time, but they'll be back on the field in a few short weeks. Their performance has been much analyzed by President, press, and...
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Harmony and Dissonance in Houston
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SAYRE, NORA
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Harmony and Dissonance in Houston NORA SAYRE Jeans and girdles, sundresses, braids and teased gray hair and rippling tresses, June Allyson pageboys, a few bald male heads among the upsweeps and...
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Reflections: On the Socialist Crisis
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS On the Socialist Crisis SIDNEY LENS One hundred thirty years after Marx and Engels published their historic manifesto about the "specter" that was haunting capitalist Europe (and...
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Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
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Stillman, Don
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In southern Appalachian miners still owe their souls to the company store Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt DON STILLMAN Little beads of sweat lined the forehead of Lloyd Robinette as he...
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Worlds Apart
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Moffitt, Howard M. Wachtel and Michael
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The haves and have-nots are at odds over the blueprint for a new international economic order Worlds Apart HOWARD M. WACHTEL and MICHAEL MOFFITT In ornate boardrooms of multinational corporations...
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What Do You Do with Donald Lang?
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Simon, Scott
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What Do You Do with Donald Lang? SCOTT SIMON During the days in court, Donald Lang sits to the side of his defense lawyers and doodles — small, constricted patterns, with spidery wisps of lines...
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Ma Bell Guards Her Monopoly
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Todd, Rusty
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Ma Bell Guards Her Monopoly RUSTY TODD For a company that claims to be economically threatened, Bell Telephone isn't doing too badly. American Telephone and Telegraph — the Bell parent company —...
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Trouble on the Line
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Caillard, Frye
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Trouble on the Line FRYE GAILLARD "Watergate is a gnat compared to the Bell System." It's been three years since Southwestern Bell executive T.O. Gravitt wrote those words in a suicide note, and...
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An Airport under Siege
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Wasserman, Harvey
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Narita is the focal point of Japan's most intense environmental battle An Airport under Siege HARVEY WASSERMAN The biggest and perhaps most crucial environmental confrontation in Japanese history...
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Nuclear Tensions in Tokyo
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Gale, Roger W.
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Nuclear Tensions in Tokyo ROGER W. GALE Tokyo The Japanese government has great hopes for nuclear power as an alternative to this nation's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the government's...
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West Germany Tries McCarthyism
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Conrad, Thomas
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About 800,000 citizens have been screened under the 'Berufsverbot' decree West Germany Tries McCarthyism THOMAS CONRAD Heinrich Haeberlein finished his course-work and exams at the University of...
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John L. Lewis, with All His Warts
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Sinclair, Ward
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BOOKS John L. Lewis, with All His Warts WARD SINCLAIR JOHN L. LEWIS. A BIOGRAPHY, by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren R. Van Tine. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 640 pp. $20. It is...
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The Compelling Tube
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HOCHSCHILD, ADAM
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The Compelling Tube REMOTE CONTROL: TELEVISION AND THE MANIPULATION OF AMERICAN LIFE, by Frank Mankiewicz and Joel L. Swerdlow. Quadrangle/The New York Times Books. 352 pp. $15. ADAM...
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Love and Blood
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Egerton, John
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Love and Blood BROTHER TO A DRAGONFLY, by Will D. Campbell. Seabury Press. 268 pp. $9.95. JOHN EGERTON This is a story of brotherhood, of brotherly love. On one level, it is literal and...
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Back to Earth
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Sanders, Scott
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Back to Earth THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA: CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE, by Wendell Berry. Sierra Club Books. 228 pp. $9.95. SCOTT SANDERS When Marx complained of rural idiocy, he was expressing an...
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On Going Solar
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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On Going Solar SOLAR ENERGY IN AMERICA'S FUTURE: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT, by Stanford Research Institute. U.S. Government Printing Office 104 pp. $2 CAROL POLSGROVE The Stanford Research...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly THE WOMEN'S ROOM, by Marilyn French (Summit Books. 471 pp. $10.95). As much a documentary of the last two decades as a novel, this is an angry, vivid, meticulously detailed...
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Letters
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LETTERS Choice, not Force In response to Jean S. Hale's letter in The Progressive, December issue, the proposed Dade County ordinance barring discrimination against homosexuals would not violate...
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End Game: Synthesis
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Lipez, Richard
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END GAME Synthesis RICHARD LIPEZ "In intellectual circles, the social thinkers who were once the driving force of Democratic liberalism... have been upstaged by a group of 'neo-conservative'...
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