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...compatible. President Meany, now 72, a crusty, authoritarian craft unionist, was dogmatically anti-Communist in foreign affairs and staunchly standpat about civil rights at home. As top vice president, the idealistic, garrulous Reuther, 59, onetime boy wonder of the industrial unionists, tried to nudge the labor movement into the vanguard of social reform and international bridge building. Not only has Reuther failed to get his way, it is now also obvious that he has abandoned all hope of succeeding Meany at the helm...
...NOEL (Vanguard). Mostly traditional Christmas carols sung by the silvery knife-thin voice of Joan Baez to the accompaniment of recorders, viols and the like. Not her best but still appealing and direct...
...SEARCH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by A. D. Wraight and Virginia Stern. 376 pages. Vanguard. $12.50. A pictorial investigation of the one Elizabethan poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder...
...heart of the problem, for it leaves behind the lower-income, semiliterate Negroes, notably the families that are below the Government's $3,000-a-year poverty line. This class contains 60% of all the nation's Negro youths, the very people who are in the vanguard of desire and disorder. While the income of the middle-class Negro rises, that of this great mass of Negroes is actually declining. During the 1960s, median family income for Negroes has dropped from $3,897 to $3,803 in Los Angeles' Watts, from...
...HOUSE IN ORDER by Nigel Dennis. 188 pages. Vanguard...