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 Vol. 043 Issue 007 (July 1 1979)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Billboards William Steif is certainly correct about the lack of zealousness by politicians and bureaucrats in enforcing the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, as he points out in "The...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT SALT: On to the dark ages The Middle Ages, as Barbara Tuchman reminds us in A Distant Mirror, her epic book about the calamitous Fourteenth Century, were a time of ferocity and agony,...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Question of the day Edward Grothus, a former nuclear weapons laboratory worker who now operates a curio shop in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has designed and is marketing a Department of...
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OFF THE TRACK
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Baldwin, Deborah
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Off the track How America lost a sane transportation system Deborah Baldwin The small suburb where I grew up wouldn't be half the size it is today if it hadn't been for the old New Haven...
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BEAUTY-CONTEST POLITICS
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Lens, Sidney
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REFLECTIONS Beauty-contest politics Sidney Lens Here we go again. The quadrennial race for the Presidency has begun, and each week brings news of another hopeful. For the next sixteen months or...
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NAGASAKI'S OTHER VICTIMS
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Soloman, Norman
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Nagasaki's other victims The growing radiation toll among GIs who helped clean up Norman Solomon The atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki are beginning to take their toll among the...
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FARMERS ON THE LINE
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Wasserman, Harvey
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Farmers on the line The Minnesota powerline fight may foreshadow a larger struggle Harvey Wasserman The flat, fertile, middle-American farmland of western Minnesota has become a battlefield in...
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IN DEFENSE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
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In defense of the First Amendment Excerpts from friend-of-the court briefs in The Progressive's prior restraint case Editor's Note: On March 26,1979, Federal District Judge Robert W. Warren...
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MEDIA LOBBYISTS: AN UNREPORTED STORY
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Brown, Dick; Antigone, Susan; Cowan, Richard; Duhl, Ron; Gaunt, Jeremy
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Media lobbyists: an unreported story The battle for news control is seldom in the news Dick Brown, Susan Antigone, Richard Cowan, Ron Duhl, and Jeremy Gaunt Aquiet war of influence is being...
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AN INDEPENDENT MAN'
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Moores, Lew
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'An independent man' The county jail couldn't hold him Lew Moores When the Reverend Maurice McCrackin failed to appear before a grand jury on January 19, deputies from the Hamilton County...
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THE FOOD FORTIFICATION FRAUD
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Jacobson, Michael
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The food fortification fraud There's gold in them thar vitamins Michael Jacobson "Recent research indicates that more and more mothers everywhere are aware of the need for vitamin and mineral...
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A TRACE OF FOOD
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Mayer, Milton
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A trace of food The anatomy of an English muffin Milton Mayer As is our wont, and our want, Ms. Baby Mayer and I were breaking bread together. You could hear the bread breaking because it was...
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FOUL BALL
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BUELL, JOHN
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Foul ball The umpires called a strike, then the owners threw a curve John Buell Since the advent of the "instant replay," baseball has given us a second national pastime — the sport of...
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THE WAY WE SAW IT
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THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
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MOVIES
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Turan, Kenneth
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MOVIES Armies of the night Kenneth Turan The latest word-of-mouth sensation in the film community is not a four-hour drama from one of those terribly earnest Third World nations. The movie that...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS The rise of media empires Daniel Schorr THE POWERS THAT BE by David Halberstam Alfred A. Knopf. 771 pp. $15. Several years ago David Halberstam decided to write a book about a television...
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THE LAST WORD
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Roane, Stephen
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THE LAST WORD Encounter with a G-man Stephen Roane When I was young and the blood ran hot (but did not sufficiently irrigate the brain) I became a Trotskyite. We Trotskyites had the reputation,...
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