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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he says has been for too long a liberal tilt to the agency's efforts. "I am determined," he says, "that our USIA overseas libraries will be ideologically balanced on the liberal and conservative sides. I will say something that may sound dangerous-the majority of books written tend to be written by people on the liberal side because they are more articulate. People like Schlesinger and Galbraith. But our libraries must express-clearly and openly-both sides." Finding writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted...
Mandel, who lives in Brussels and edits the militantly leftist weekly La Gauche (circ. 5,000), has written a number of books. His most recent is a two-volume work titled Marxist Economic Theory. Critics both in the U.S. and abroad have praised the book's fresh, undoctrinaire approach to Marxism, and the Economist felt that "no student can afford to ignore this very important work." Mandel's ideas may clash with American beliefs, but there is something absurd in the whole Mc-Carran Act notion that the U.S. must be protected from dangerous alien contamination by keeping...
...motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...
...freelance writer who, to complete his research, had to get a $1,000 grant from a foundation. Seymour M. Hersh, 32, had been a police reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau, a Pentagon reporter for A.P. and a press secretary for Eugene McCarthy. Hersh had written a book on chemical and biological warfare, and he was working on another about the Pentagon when one of his contacts called him in Washington around...
...mild-mannered minister, has a new record out, a book of poetry due out in January and three offers to star in situation comedies. Alan Sues, who presides as Uncle Al ("the kiddies' pal") and the sports announcer who minces his words, has a book forthcoming and has written a movie ("A silent movie -it's great"). Ruth Buzzi, the hair-nettled nemesis of Arte Johnson's Dirty Old Man, went to Europe to tape a guest appearance on the John Davidson Show, ended up doing six, with Davidson trying to sign her on as a regular...