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IssueVol. 047 Issue 005 (May 1 1983)
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Paid articleThey Phone by Night
They Phone by Night The desperate character whose fierce mug-shots adorn the T-shirt ad on the back cover of this issue is named Kevin Donleavy. His friends call him Peach. He is not a fugitive...
Paid articleLetters
Deficit Spending Your comment, "In Praise of Deficit Spending" (March issue), was sound if unconventional wisdom. In perspective, last year's deficit is puny in comparison with those of the World...
Paid articleThe Biggest Lie
The Biggest Lie In the mid-1960s, as the United States slogged deeper and deeper into the dismal swamp of its Indochina adventure, it gradually became apparent that the Johnson Administration had...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
Headline Wisdom From the front page of The Wall Street Journal. DOWN AND OUT/ IDLE MILLS, A DEARTH OF H O P E A R E FEATURES OF OHIO'S STEEL TOWNS/UNEMPLOYED A R E IN DESPAIR AS THEIR BENEFITS E N D...
Paid articleLife in the Pigsty
Jones, Arthur
Life in the Pigsty The Reagan Administration is searching for a candidate with impeccable credentials to fill a post at the highest political level. Let's call the candidate Strange. The White...
Paid articleThe Pope's Preoccupations
MacEoin, Gary
The Pope's Preoccupations Pope John Paul IPs recent whirlwind visit to Central America had some positive aspects. One was his unscheduled stop at the tomb of the most prominent victim of El...
Paid articleDATELINES
The Texas Syndrome FORT WORTH .TEXAS Charles Atchison of Azle, Texas, never thought he would be a whistleblower—at least not in 1979, when he signed on with the Houston-based Brown & Root, Inc.,...
Paid articleThe Japanese Model
JUNKERMAN, JOHN
The Japanese Model Twelve-year-old Tsuyoshi looks up from his fan magazine—he's been reading about Journey, his favorite rock-'n'-roll band—and interjects into our after-dinner cofiversation,...
Paid articleCan Green Grow?
SWEET, WILLIAM
Can Green Grow A new kind of politics takes root in German soil. By William Sweet As soon as the leaders of the West German Greens learned they had won twenty-seven seats in the March 6...
Paid articleFree Speech
Hentoff, Nat
Free Speech The price is going up BY NATHENT OFF " 'Here's this morning's New York Sewer!' cried one. 'Here's this morning's New York Stabber! Here's the New York Family Spy! . . . Here's all...
Paid articleHIGH PITCH HIGH VOLUME
ZEITUN, MARILYN
HIGH PITCH HIGH VOLUME Millions fall prey to hearing-aid hustlers BY MARILYN ZEITUN Four years ago, Eleanor Smith of Los Angeles answered a newspapaper advertisement placed by the Beltone...
Paid articleWhen Mining G?ants Walk the Land
SPANEL, ANN
When Mining G?ants Walk the Land Defiance can confound the best-laid corporate plans BY ANN SPANEL They oughta put that guy in jail," said Maas Maassen, an eightyfour- year-old farmer in Sioux...
Paid articleADNAUSEAM
Peck, Keenen
ADNAJSEAM BY KEENEN PECK The nation's second-largest advertiser is not Sears, Roebuck & Company, as the trade statistics indicate, nor is it General Foods, General Motors, or McDonald's. The...
Paid articleTuning Out Black History
Hentoff, Nat
Tuning Out Black History Frank Martin of the Island Trees school board on Long Island was the leader of the seemingly endless and losing battle to expel nine books from his district's libraries....
Paid articleBritannia Waives the Rules
Seitz, Michael H.
Britannia Waives the Rules The once proud British movie industry has been deep in the doldrums for more than a decade. Several of the best filmmakers have left for Hollywood, and much of the...
Paid article'The Wrong Kind of Readers'
Bagdikian, Ben H.
'The Wrong Kind of Readers' The fail and rise of The New Yorker Nothing in American publishing approaches the profitable heresies of The New Yorker magazine. In an era when magazine editors...
Paid articleWoman of the World
Davidon, Ann Morrissett
Woman of the World BUYING THE NIGHT FLIGHT by Ge?rgie Anne Geyer Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. 337 pp. $16.95. by Ann Morrissett Davidon After a peripatetic decade as a foreign...
Paid articleTruman Step by Step
Hechler, Ken
Truman Step by Step WORKING WITH TRUMAN by Ken Hechler G.P. Putnam's Sons. 318 pp. $16.95 Harry S. Truman was the last U . S . President to practice pretelevision politics. That meant he was...
Paid articleFeeling the Unfeelable
Powers, Thomas
Feeling the Unfeelable THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT WAR by Thomas Powers Alfred A . Knopf. 155 pp. $10.95. Several years before Jonathan Schell aroused Americans with his exegesis on nuclear war,...
Paid articleThe Have-nots
Auletta, Ken
The Have-nots THE UNDERCLASS by Ken Auletta Random House. 366 pp. $17.50. THE NEW CLASS WAR: REAGAN'S ATTACK ON THE WELFARE STATE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A....
Paid articleThe Last Days
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Last Days DEADEYEDICK by Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte Press. 240 pp. $14.95. We are approaching the end of a literary movement, and its decline is evident in Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel,...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly Lives in Letters TOUCHSTONES by Patricia Frazer Lamb and Kathryn Joyce Hohlwein Harper & Row. 330 pp. $14.95. The two women met at the University of Utah in the early 1950s,...
Paid articleREPORT CARD
Doenges, Judy
What's Your Beef? RETURN TO THE JUNGLE: HOW THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION IS IMPERILING THE NATION'S MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION PROGRAM by Kathleen Hughes Center for Study of Responsive Law,...
Paid articlePuzzle
Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry
Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letters of the clue answers spell out the name of the quote's author. Clues are in the...
Paid articleThe Last Word
Mayer, Milton
An Aged Deadhead t was the end of the wretched '60s and I was the speaker at a Quaker college in southern Indiana. I expected an audience of half a dozen—the students had done away with...
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