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IssueVol. 044 Issue 010 (October 1 1980)
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Paid articleA CALL TO INACTION.
A call to inaction. Maybe Americas current slowdown in home building isn't slow enough. Maybe it should come to a dead stop—until we've done some hard thinking about the right kind of houses to...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS The draft Thank you for publishing the editorial opposing draft registration, "A Time to Say No" (August issue). If even half of the American press would demonstrate the courage and drive...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO Scribaciousness Nora Sayre, whose observations on the Republican and Democratic national conventions appear elsewhere in this issue (and who has covered the conventions for The Progressive...
Paid articleMORRIS H. RUBIN, 1911-1980
Morris h. Rubin, 1911-1980 ^f%fVorris H. Rubin, the Editor of The Progressive A ¦ from 1940 to 1973 and its Publisher until 1976, jj) died on August 8, 1980. He was sixty-nine years old, and had...
Paid articleA LONG, LONG TALK
Mayer, Milton
A long, long talk Milton Mayer You begin at the beginning and finish at the end. At the beginning, forty years ago, we were young; very young, as it seems now. He was the editor of a little...
Paid articleA DIFFERENT KIND OF LIBERAL
Lens, Sidney
A different kind of liberal Sidney Lens I first met Morris Rubin in the late 1940s. He called himself a "liberal," and that troubled me. Most liberals were running for cover, embracing the...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT Mad, mad, mad Picture this: You are the President of the United States. You have just learned of the existence of a new Kremlin directive. It announces the retargeting of Soviet strategic...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Merrill Lynch, Tinkers, Evers, and Chance... The Merrill Lynch brokerage firm was one of the bidders to purchase the Chicago White Sox. Newspeah... A recent report by the President's...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Home of the brave Jeffrey Stein Tammy Blankenship, a teen-ager from Los Angeles, was passing through a room on the White House tour early in August when she heard a...
Paid articleNO PLACE TO GO
Judis, John
NO PLACE TO GO THE STEADY RISE OF THE NON-VOTERS' PARTY JOHN JUDIS Outside Madison Square Garden, where this year's Democratic Convention was being held, vendors were doing a brisk business in...
Paid articleCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
SAYRE, NORA
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN TRIBAL RITES NORA SAYRE "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." —Henry Kissinger Detroit, July 1980 When we were...
Paid articleBEYOND NOVEMBER
Harrington, Michael
BEYOND NOVEMBER THE DEMOCRATS REMAIN THE REAL HOME OF THE LEFT MICHAEL HARRINGTON It was a convention of contradictions—the Democratic Party gathering of 1980. Party radicals who for years had...
Paid articleA VOTE NOT WASTED
COMMONER, BARRY
A VOTE NOT WASTED THE CITIZENS' PARTY BUILDS FOR A NEW POLTICS BARRY COMMONER If the 1980 election campaign reveals anything about American politics, it is that the two-party system as...
Paid articleTHE RELEVANCE OF THE IMUPOSSIBLE
McREYNOLDS, DAVID
THE RELEVANCE OF THE IMUPOSSIBLE MORE IS AT STAKE THAN THE PRESIDENCY DAVID McREYNOLDS When the Socialist Party met in convention last February and nominated me for President and Sister Diane...
Paid articleBETTER A WOLF IN WOLF'S CLOTHING
Canis, Skipper
BETTER A WOLF IN WOLF'S CLOTHING WHY I'M VOTING FOR RONALD REAGAN SKIPPER CANIS He is surrounded by a whole brigade of military men, some of whom are convinced that nuclear war is not an...
Paid articleHUCKSTERS IN THE CLASSROOM
Hucksters in the classroo How corporate America teaches Johnny to consume Fifty-one years ago, a group of educators calling themselves the Committee on Propaganda in the Schools presented some...
Paid articleDIRECTIVE FIFTY-NINE
Thaxton, Richard
Directive Fifty-nine Carter's new 'deterrence' doctrine moves us closer to the holocaust Richard Thaxton The boys on the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff in Omaha have been "going bananas,"...
Paid articleWHY I REGISTERED FOR THE DRAFT
Garlock, Christopher
Why I registered for the draft The battle is still to come Christopher Garlock There's a feeling you get when you walk into a hospital, no matter how slight the problem to be treated—a vague,...
Paid articleWHY I REFUSED TO REGISTER
Bunn, Matthew
Why I refused to register To participate is to accept Matthew Bunn The Selective Service Act states that "it shall be the duty of every male . . . between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six ......
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
The Progressive Puzzle Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letters of the clue answers spell...
Paid articleSO WHAT IF THE WATER'S NUKED?
Rosenwald, Lonnie; Gramer, Rod
So what if the water's nuked? How the Feds told Idaho to aet lost Lonnie Rosenwald and Rod Gramer The silver and blue bus rolled up to the factory fence enclosing a cluster of buildings...
Paid articleWHO OWNS THE MISSOURI?
Gebhart, Tim
Who owns the Missouri? South Dakota and the Sioux battle for a river Tim Gebhart When I was a young boy, the old men used to tell me that someday the white man, he's so cunning, he'll stop the...
Paid articleEASING THE GRIP OF BIG OIL
Frieden, Karl
Easing the grip of Big Oil The case for a public energy company Karl Frieden The fifteen-fold increase in OPEC crude oil prices during the last decade, capped by a near doubling of prices in 1979...
Paid articleMOVIES
Seitz, Michael H.
MOVIES A woman of Cuba Michael H. Seitz One of the earliest acts of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government was the establishment of the Instituto Cubano del Arte y Industria Cinematograficos...
Paid articleBOOKS
Sanders, Scott
BOOKS Humanizing society Scott Sanders HUMAN SCALE byKirkpatrickSale Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 558 pp. $15.95. ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: THE CHALLENGE OF THE 1980s by Martin Camoy and Derek...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Lerner, Mary
THE LAST WORD Sharecropper's daughter MaryLerner The red clay of the foothills of the Blue Ridge was caked on her bare feet. The hand-me-down rag she called a dress was so worn her flesh was...
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