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IssueVol. 044 Issue 012 (December 1 1980)
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Paid article24,000 TONS OF BROCCOLI.
24,000 tons of broccoli. To many people, broccoli is a vegetable with a funny name. To New Yorkers, its a vegetable with a price tag that's no joke. And for you, wherever you live, the story of...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS Serious I just finished reading your editorial, "Let's Be Serious" (November issue). I felt compelled to let you know how much it was appreciated. When I can't get a particular viewpoint...
Paid articleMEMO
MEMO A musical offering "Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or political uncertainties, we neither face...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT And now Reagan It was a landslide all right. The non-voters' party (as John Judis dubbed it in these pages a few months ago) continues its steady twenty-year march toward majority status...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Sports rally... Headline over a news story in Advertising Age (about a White House appeal for corporate backing of the Presidential Sports Award Program): "Carter Calls for Athletic...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeffrey
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON History makers Jeffrey Stein On Saturday, October 18, Jody Powell, President Carter's skillful press secretary, placed a worried telephone call to The Washington Post....
Paid articleTHE PATIENT WOMAN
Randal, Judith
The patient woman Are the obstetricians protecting her health or their turf? Judith Randal Grant Hospital, a 640-bed teaching institution in downtown Columbus, Ohio, boasts of its "commitment to...
Paid articleLAID OFF AT LYING-IN
Shuchman, Miriam
Laid off at Lying-in How Chicago's South Side iost its oniy nurse-midwives Miriam Shuchman Last winter, the only two practicing nurse-midwives on Chicago's South Side lost their delivery...
Paid articleTHE 'NEUROTIC WOMAN' SYNDROME
Kiefer, Tona
The 'neurotic woman' syndrome How drug companies feed the fantasies of the male medical establishment Tona Kiefer The frowning countenance of an anxious woman peers out at a doctor flipping the...
Paid articleTOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME
Williams, Mary
Toxic shock syndrome The disease is in the tampon industry Mary Williams MM When she woke up one Satur-mfmW day morning last March, Mr Mr Wendy, a twenty-one-year-old gymnastics coach in Madison,...
Paid articleTHE STEALTH 'SECRET'
Grambart, James
The Stealth 'secret' The industry knows it, so why shouldn't you? James Grambart At the Lockheed Corporation's "skunk works" in Burbank, California, birthplace of the U-2 spy plane that was shot...
Paid articleLETTERS ON THE ABORTION AND THE LEFT
ABORTION AND THE LEFT I wish to commend the editors for presenting both sides of this issue. Abortion is something I have struggled with for a long time. On the one hand, the political aspect of my...
Paid articleTHE POVERTY BROKERS
Collins, Joseph; Lappe, Frances Moore; Kinley, David
The poverty brokers The trickle down theory at work in the World Bank Joseph Collins, Frances Moore Lappe, and David Kinley "Perhaps more than any other institution in the world, the World Bank...
Paid articleOUR PROXY WAR IN EAST TIMOR
Harkin, Tom
Our proxy war in East Timor The U.S. abets a brutal annexation Tom HarKIN An official from Catholic Relief Services who has visited East Timor reports the starvation as "horrible—as horrible as...
Paid articleBLOOD ON THE SAHARA
Houser, George M.
Blood on the Sahara America is fighting King Hassan's war George M. Houser No roads cross the empty lands of Western Sahara, only faint tracks that cut across the desert in winding, zigzag...
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 articleMOVIES
Fallout, Festival
MOVIES Festival fallout Michael H. Seitz Throughout much of its eighteen-year history, the New York Film Festival has served as a fairly reliable barometer of trends in world filmmaking. During...
Paid articleINDIGENOUS MUSIC BACK TO BASIC MYTHS
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC Back to basic myths Nat Hentoff Ben Webster, a big man with a huge sound, used to come to town, any town, with just his horn and pick up a rhythm section for a week's work, The...
Paid articleBOOKS
Sanders, Scott
BOOKS Routes to nuclear war Scott Sanders Within half an hour from the moment you read these words, an all-out nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union could murder some...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD A CLERK'S OBJECTION
Mcginnis, Diana
THE LAST WORD A clerk's objection Diana McGinnis It was a shock when I read the headline of the Oakland Tribune on July 20: "Draft sign-up gets Supreme Court OK." For countless young men, those...
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