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IssueVol. 045 Issue 006 (June 1 1981)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Eviscerated Congratulations on the May issue, which was one hardhitting, well-researched article after another. Special kudos for authors Medsger, Bonner, Le-win, Mulligan, Talbot, and...
Paid articleComment
COMMENT Our endangered species Biologists have determined that the bald eagles and brown pelicans which inhabit the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge along Florida's Atlantic coast suffered...
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NO COMMENT A touch of class... From The Washington Posfs account of the wedding that united Maureen Reagan and Dennis Re-vell: "According to guests, Judge Rittenband quoted from Byron, Shelley,...
Paid articleThe Word from Washington
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The silent treatment Jeffrey Stein The common assumption here is that news travels outward from Washington and New York. News that originates elsewhere usually doesn't...
Paid articleMURDER OF THE SUNSET LIMITED
MURDER OF THE SUNSET LIMITED WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT TRAINS OF AMERICA? FRANK BROWNING Four men gathered above a Sacramento hardware store in 1860 to listen to a California dream. The dreamer...
Paid articleTHE PENTAGON IN THE IVORY TOWER
Burkholder, Steve
The Pentagon in the ivory tower One more time, the universities sell out Steve Burkholder In the winter of 1977, a University of Wisconsin meteorologist dispatched a letter to the U.S. Army...
Paid articleSOCIAL SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL CONTROL by feanie Wylie
Wylie, Jeanie
Social science for social control A study nearing completion at the University of Michigan shows the ways in which the social sciences, no less than the physical sciences and mathematics, can be...
Paid articleTHE CHANCELLOR GOES TO WASHINGTON
Lepkowski, Wil
The chancellor goes to Washington One morning in April, a lineup of high university officials answered a call from the House Armed Services Committee to make its case for more military money. The...
Paid articlePORTRAITS FROM EL SALVADOR
Kienitz, Michael
Portraits from [I Salvador PiiotosandtextbyMicliaelKiEiiiti The plane from Miami to El Salvador touched down just as the sun dipped behind a screen of palm trees and the March sky began to grow...
Paid articleTHE POSTPONED DEPRESSION
Lens, Sidney
The postponed depression Reaganomics continues a process that Roosevelt's New Deal interrupted Sidney Lens President Reagan's severest critics, no less than his most ardent admirers, like to...
Paid articleEVEN IN BASEBALL, THE GAME IS GIVE-BACKS
Jacobs, Barry
Even in baseball, the game is give-backs Briefcase in hand, Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, climbed the concrete dugout steps of Miami Stadium...
Paid articleAPPALACHIAN ABSENTEE LANDLORDS
Egerton, John
They met in a rented revival tent on a mountaintop meadow— close to 300 frustrated individuals with divergent interests but one common determination: to change once and for all the continuing...
Paid articleSTRANGERS IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY
Sender, Henny
Strangers in the mother country The orphans of the British Empire Henny Sender Among the more bizarre masterpieces in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is Tippu's Tiger, "a life-sized...
Paid articlePuzzle
Rathvon, Emily Cox and 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 and its author. The first letters of the...
Paid articleIndigenous Music
Hentoff, Nat
ENOUS MUSIC 'Do your starving gracefully' NatHentoff It was a union rally, a few years ago, and the workers were low. Their employer was a publishing house, Simon and Schuster; and although it...
Paid articleMovies
Seitz, Michael H.
MOVIES Sixties people Michael H. Seitz The Return of the Secaucus Seven depicts a weekend reunion, occurring just a year or so ago, of a group of late 1960s movement activists. They are all now...
Paid articleThe critical energy debate
Sanders, Scott
BOOKS The critical energy debate ENERGY/WAR: BREAKING THE NUCLEAR LINK by Amory B. and L. Hunter Lovins Friends of the Earth. 161 pp. $10. Scott Sanders How we acquire energy— whether from...
Paid articleGreeneland
Greene, Graham
Greeneland WAYS OF ESCAPE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Graham Greene Simon and Schuster. 320 pp. $12.95. "This book," Graham Greene insists, "has not been a self-portrait." Ways of Escape is actually a...
Paid articleA judge's role
Coffin, Frank M.
A judge's role THE WAYS Or A JUDGE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FEDERAL APPELLATE BENCH by Frank M. Coffin Houghton Mifflin. 273 pp. $10.95. Readers of The Progressive no doubt remember the struggle to...
Paid articleBeyond violence
Sharp, Gene
Beyond violence SOCIAL POWER AND POLITICAL FREEDOM by Gene Sharp Porter Sargent. 440 pp. $15.95 hardcover. $8.95 paperback. Walking through the streets of Hiroshima in 1946, a Japanese soldier...
Paid articleVintage Mencken
Galligan, Edward L.
Vintage Mencken A CHOICE OF DAYS byH. L. Mencken Edited by Edward L. Galligan Alfred A. Knopf. 337 pp. $12.95. ON MENCKEN Edited by John Dorsey Alfred A. Knopf. 313 pp. $15. To observe the...
Paid articleBooks briefly
Books briefly A collection of protest Peace Is Our Profession, edited by Jan Berry (East River Anthology, 75 Gates Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey 07042. 320 pp. $5.95). In his introduction, Jan...
Paid articleTHE MART
_ASSOCIATIONS_ ECOLOGISM POLITICAL PARTY (USA), 1801 E. Wilshire, Fullerton, CA 92631._ BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY. Information; PR, RD1, Box 409, Coopersburg, PA 18036._ THE SOCIETY OF...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD ON THE WORK ETHIC
Galbraith, John Kenneth
THE LAST WORD The work ethic: It works best for those who work least John Kenneth Galbraith The last few months have been greatly enriched, in a manner of speaking, by a discussion of the work...
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