June 1969
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Articles
The Right of Abortion
Chicago's Blackstone Rangers (II)
Last month Mr. McPherson described how a group of black Chicago street gangs evolved into the controversial "Ranger Nation," funded by the Poverty Program, investigated by the Senate, and hunted by the police. Here he completes his report and explains why—as a onetime Chicago policeman puts it—the Rangers "started as kids, but with all the pressures, they don't even know themselves now."
Hardbound Vaudeville
Daddy Strikes Back
Don Juan Out of Hell
The Norman Vincent Peale of the Left
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Youngest Ambassador
The Same Only Different
Ratman's Notebooks
The Throwaway Children
The Child Savers
Ronald Firbank
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Cosima Wagner
The Black Death
Yvette Guilbert
Midpoint and Other Poems
Collected Essays
Thelwell's Book of Leisure
Australia
Canadian North
Black Studies: Trouble Ahead
The universities owe to black America what they owe to white America: an atmosphere of freedom and dissent for the pursuit of higher learning. So says a thoughtful historian, who warns that the legitimate and constructive tasks of black studies programs can be subverted by indifference to principle or political cynicism.
Washington
Out of Three or Four in a Room
The Kitchen
International Conflict for Beginners
How sophisticated was America’s diplomatic handling of the Pueblo crisis? What were the strategic options, and how do they relate to the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance plane in early April?
Seven Double Dactyls
Berkeley in the Age of Innocence
In a loving look backward, the Harvard economics professor and author of The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State recollects college days of a benignity long gone. The essay was written for a book being edited by Irving Stone and to he published by Doubleday later this year to mark the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley.
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
The Mother of Good Fortune
