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...ANDREW SINCLAIR...
Sense of Unease. Muckraking seems to be a cyclical phenomenon. Its classic period came between 1902 and 1912, when Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed civic corruption and business chicanery. It diminished in the 1920s, revived briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation...
Nader has busily progressed from attacking defective autos (millions of which have been recalled as a direct result of his activities) to denouncing the filth in meat-packing plants, which was still sickeningly pervasive 60 years after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Nader's list of targets expands steadily: harmful food additives, explosion-prone natural-gas pipelines, radiation emissions from color television sets, unwholesome poultry, polluted water and air, bureaucratic sloth, corporate oligopoly, laborunion corruption, Union Carbide, the Du Fonts of Delaware, California land use, the Bureau of Reclamation. Next, Nader plans to zero in on the lassitude...
...feminism. Says she: "The women's movement has made me more content with my lot. I know I'm not the only one who's complaining; I'm not nuts." Norma Johnson, 37, snares the frustration over the banality of small-town social life with Sinclair Lewis' Main Street rebel, Carol Kennicott. She has spent eight years in night classes working toward her bachelor's and master's degrees. "I got to be age 30 and thought, 'Is this all there is-the bridge and socials...
...Died. Sinclair Weeks, 78, crack Republican fund raiser who became President Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Concord, Mass. The son of a Boston financier, Weeks was a G.O.P. stalwart throughout the party's lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...