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The article presents the traumatic experience of the author with a U.S. government agency, Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR). The author was invited by IPAR to come to the Institute house for a period of two or three days, and there talk with members of its staff, participate in a series of experiments and psychological tests, and meet and interact with a number of other persons selected on a similar basis. Theoretically, this invasion of the sanctity of the person, this analysis of the sources of creativity and non-conformity, could be put to the most vicious uses.

It is gradually getting around that a special kind of regional renaissance has been under way in San Francisco, California ever since the war. In the past ten years the anarchists have become more anarchistic, the bohemians more bohemian, the city has come to play an even more capital role. The social base of the city is made up of migratory agricultural workers, seamen, longshoremen, other categories with a high degree of mobility-independent and skeptical. The article focuses on various social aspects of the city.

The article presents the author's views on U.S. politics in the early 1960's. Politicians John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are both, judged by the values of our society. Critics of Nixon may not like the way he was launched on his career, but there is a difference between a committee of conservative, even reactionary, businessmen and a smoke-filled back room of brothel keepers, numbers operators and ward heelers. Do Kennedy and Nixon represent contending power blocs of American capitalists? The Electoral College does not "really" elect the President, but it is most important today to realize that the party conventions did not "really" nominate Kennedy and Nixon either.

The article discusses the revolt of the youth in the U.S. society. In talking about the revolt of youth one should never forget that one is dealing with a new concept. For thousands of years nobody cared what youth were doing. They weren't news. Today they are striking back. That is news. Nobody else is striking back. It has become only too apparent that one can no longer afford the old catch-as-catch-can morality with which civilization has muddled through to 1960. Sloth, rascality, predatory dishonesty, evasion, bluster, no longer work. The machinery has become too delicate, too complicated, too world-encompassing. Maybe it was once true, a hundred and fifty years ago, that the sum total of the immoral actions of selfish men produced a social good.

Seven hundred capitalists is a lot of capitalists to see at once. They are members of the blue-serge and gray-flannel and pin-stripe international, just like the people in the corridors of the U.N. or in any professional, technical or administrative convention the world over, including the other side of the Iron Curtain. The so-called free world seems to be divided pretty clearly into three groups. First are the United States of America, Canada and Australia, the other predominantly white or white-governed Dominions, Latin America and, to a much lesser degree, Great Britain itself.

Henry Miller is a really popular writer, a writer of, for, and by real people. In other countries, he is read, not just by highbrows, or by the wider public that reads novels, but by the people who, in the United States, read comic books. In the United States, he has been kept away from a popular public and his great novels have been banned. The people Henry Miller writes about, read him. They read him because he gives them something they cannot find elsewhere in print. It may not he precisely !the real world, but it is nearer to it than most other writing, and it is certainly nearer than most so-called realistic writing.

A conference camp on the forested shore of Monterey Bay operated by the California State Parks under the auspices of the Letters and Science Extension, Special Programs of the University of California, and under the general management of Herbert Hill, Labor Secretary of the NAACP, was held on the Afro-American writer. About 200 people attended as audience. The three program's that raised a genuine literary response from the audience were the poetry readings by Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones, and Arna Bontemps talk on the Harlem Renaissance.

Debates on the Great Debate between U.S. presidential candidates Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon has proven to be a lot more controversial than the debate itself. There is a widespread feeling among journalists and other people in communications that it marks some sort of landmark. The American Presidency does not represent a compact political group of any sort, but a coalition. Both candidates are running full tilt against Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev.

The article reports on the book "Original Narratives of Early American History," by J. Franklin. The book has been brought out by the American Historical Association, in the years before the first war. The original publishers turned them over to Barnes and Noble Inc. sometime between the wars, and in due course they went out of print and have been rather difficult to obtain for a long time. They start out with the Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, and run down to the Spanish in California at the beginning of the eighteenth century. New England, Virginia, the Midwest, Carolina, the Southwest, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York. each major province of American exploration and settlement is represented by the earliest available narratives.

As the Republican headquarters in the Fairmont Hotel began to take shape, it looked at first as though that was the way it was going to be--television cables all over the lobby, Pepsicola girls in bottle-top bathing suits, stunts and flashlight bulbs going off in all directions. The author feels that this convention was not just the combined brains of the best advertising agencies of the United States. It was a reflection of something all these people believe as a patent fact. As far as this Administration is concerned, the business community does not manipulate the government, it is the government.

Presents letters to the editor referencing topics and articles published in the previous issues. Criticism of the oppressive and totalitarian industrial policy that German dictator Adolf Hitler adopted to do away with the unemployment; Appraisal of Consumers' Cooperatives which were effective in holding down retail food and commodity prices; Criticizes the U.S. government for giving more importance to the questions of war that those related to social security, programs and relief.