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IssueVol. 044 Issue 011 (November 1 1980)
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Paid articleTHE RECYCLING OF AMERICA
The recycling of America. Americans have been campaigning for improved roads almost one hundred years. But, surprisingly, the first active lobbyists were not manufacturers of automobiles. Not the...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Morris H. Rubin I read of Morris Rubin's death with a deep sense of loss and with a profound sense of gratitude for what he was and what he did. I am just one of many who are in his debt...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO lack of all trades For the first time in a third of a century, John McGrath's name is missing from the masthead of this magazine. He retired last month as an Associate Editor—a title that...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT Let's be serious When Leon Jaworski announced that he would head a Democrats for Reagan organization, he explained, "I'd rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate."...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
Stein, Jeffrey
NO COMMENT Shooting your wad... The South Umpqua State Bank, with offices in Roseburg, Canyonville, Glendale, and Myrtle Creek, Oregon, will give you a .240 caliber Weatherby Magnum Mark V Rifle—a...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Wirbel, Loring
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Mobilization Jeffrey Stein In the beginning, there was the War Resisters League. And the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. And the churches—especially...
Paid articleSOMEBODY IS LISTENING
Somebody is listening There's a computer on the line Loring Wirbel Two decades ago, the arrival of a new generation of computers, dependent on a single processing unit, evoked the frightening...
Paid articleLEAA: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
LEAA: mission accomplished Quietly and without fanfare, the Federal Government has called off its national war on crime—the war that was noisily proclaimed in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe...
Paid articleA CARD FOR EVERYONE
Markoff, John
A card for everyone "Where are your papers?" That chilling question, usually uttered by a police officer, is heard every day in countries around the world where national identification papers are...
Paid articleFUN AND GAMES IN SILICON VALLEY
Kahn, David
Fun and games in Silicon Valley It's getting harder to tell the toys from the real thing John Markoff The hobby shops are crowded on Saturday mornings in the busy shopping centers in and around...
Paid articleTHE PUBLIC'S SECRETS
Iii, Taylor G. Moore
The public's secrets How a Federal agency laid claim to a branch of higher mathematics David Kahn A bishop was being tried for treason in the House of Lords. He was accused of attempting to place...
Paid articleTHE MAVY'S NUMBER-CRUNCHER
Wicklein, John
The Mavy's number-cruncher Its mission: search and destroy Taylor G. Moore III Most of us think of the ocean depths as a silent world— the soup-like womb of all life on Earth. In fact, the ocean...
Paid articleHOW SWEDEN KEEPS ITS COMPUTERS HONEST
Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
How Sweden keeps its computers honest A new law helps the citizen fight back John Wicklein Last year, like most citizens of Sweden, Stig Bjerstrom filed his income tax return in February and sat...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
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 articleABORTION AND THE LEFT:
Lens, Sidney
ABORTION AND THE LEFT: The so-called Progressive's recent treatment of abortion was a perfect exercise in doublespeak. You carefully counter a pro-abortion article with a ridiculous excuse for a...
Paid articleREINDUSTRIALIZATION': PANACEA OR THREAT?
Judis, John
'Reindustrialization': panacea or threat? It looks a lot like Mussolini's corporate state Sidney Lens Afew years ago, Representative Jack Kemp, New York Republican, introduced a new term into...
Paid articleAN ANDERSON DIFFERENCE?
Seitz, Michael H.
An Anderson difference? It exists less in his program than in his effect on the outcome in November John Judis In 1976, an estimated 5 per cent of voters decided which Presidential candidate to...
Paid articleMOVIES
Roediger, David
MOVIES Tragedy in the outback Michael H. Seitz The past decade has not been an artistically fruitful period in many countries which have traditionally enjoyed the strongest national cinemas. In...
Paid articleBOOKS
Mayer, Milton
BOOKS Black Americans talking David Roediger Drylongso. The word means ordinary in black English, and the forty-one interviewees in this collection of oral reminiscences are, in all their rich...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
THE LAST WORD Resistance Milton Mayer The Washington Post, which ought to know, but doesn't necessarily, calculates that "perhaps four-fifths" of the American people are careless and perverse...
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