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The Screwing of The Average Man

The Unnatural Gas Case

How one pipeline has run around the Supreme Court for 14 years. With new friends like Warren Magn...

by Michael Green

The Washington Monthly, November 1971, pp. 48-61

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    January 1971 Issue = 9 Articles
    1. Letters, p. 2
    2. The Ordeal of Legal Services by Taylor Branch, pp. 3-22
    3. Reserves and Guard: A More Selective Service by Adam Hochschild, pp. 23-30
    4. Blaming the Victim by William Ryan, pp. 31-36
    5. Memo of the Month, p. 37
    6. Ben Yellen's Fine Madness by Michael Kinsley, pp. 38-49
    7. FDA: The Sugar-Coated, Polyunresponsive, Indigestible Placebo by Richard Margolis, pp. 50-58
    8. [+]
      Book Review by John Rothchild, pp. 59-64 - 1 Review
      1. Boundaries by Robert Jay Lifton
    9. The Political Puzzle, pp. 65-66
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    February 1971 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-7
    2. James Marcus: Out of the Reservoir and up the River by Walter Goodman, pp. 8-22
    3. The Pain of Saying Good-By is Enough - The Anguish of Losing office by Roy Hattersley, pp. 23-25
    4. America's Time Traps:The Youth Cult, the Work Prison, the Emptiness of Age by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 26-37
    5. Memo of the Month, p. 38
    6. Ecology Denied: The Unmaking of a Majority by William H. Rodgers, Jr., pp. 39-43
    7. The Inscrutable Commitment by James C. Thomson, Jr., pp. 44-54
    8. The One-Eyed Watchdog of Congress by Richard F. Kaufman, pp. 55-60
    9. Reports, pp. 61-64
    10. The Political Puzzle., pp. 65-66
    11. Cover by Vint Lawrence
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    March 1971 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-6
    2. The Interlake Affair by Alexander Polikoff, pp. 7-17
    3. America the Featherbedded by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 18-23
    4. Memo of the Month, p. 24
    5. The Rising Profits of Public Service by Taylor Branch, pp. 25-32
    6. Political Book Award, p. 33
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      The Prince and His Courtiers, pp. 34-45 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Twilight of the Presidency by George E. Reedy
      2. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
      3. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, and Strobe Talbott, ...
    8. The Politics of Poetry by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 46-53
    9. The Political Puzzle, p. 54
    10. A Congressional Garden of Verse by Paul Dickson, pp. 55-58
    11. [+]
      The Diplomacy of Intervention and Extrication by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 59-66 - 1 Review
      1. The Lost Crusade by Chester L. Cooper
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    April 1971 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 2-3
    2. Introduction by Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., pp. 4-7
    3. Maximizing Cobra Utilization by Jeffrey Record, pp. 8-12
    4. The Vietnamization of Cambodia by Peter A. Poole, pp. 13-16
    5. No Victory Parades by Murray Polner, pp. 17-24
    6. The Burn Ward by Ronald J. Glasser, pp. 25-35
    7. Monopoly With Real Money by Charles E. Mueller, pp. 36-43
    8. America's Respectable Crime Problem by Sarah Carey, pp. 44-52
    9. Memo of the Month, pp. 53-54
    10. O. Roy Chalk: Leonardo Or Otis B. Driftwood? by John Rothchild, pp. 55-63
    11. Political Book Notes, pp. 64-66
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    May 1971 Issue = 8 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-5
    2. The Electronic Battlefield: Strangelove's Answer to War Crimes by Paul Dickson and John Rothchild, pp. 6-16
    3. The Dairy Lobby Buys the Cream of the Congress by Frank Wright, p. 17
    4. Memo of the Month, pp. 18-22
    5. Courage Without Esteem: Profiles in Whistle-Blowing by Taylor Branch, pp. 23-43
    6. Sex, Work, and Motivation in Castro's Cuba by Barry Reckord, pp. 44-53
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      Book Notes, pp. 54-55 - 9 Reviews
      1. America the Dutiful by Philip W. Quigg
      2. Blacks, Medical Schools, and Society by James L. Curtis
      3. The C-5A Scandal by Berkeley Rice
      4. The Cruel Choice by Denis Goulet
      5. High School by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
      6. Income Distribution by Jan Pen
      7. Soldiers Without Enemies by Larry L. Fabian
      8. The Southern Strategy by Reg Murphy and Hal Gulliver
      9. The Sunshine Soldiers by Peter Tauber
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      Book Review by Jamie Rosenthal, pp. 56-66 - 1 Review
      1. The Soft Revolution by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
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    June 1971 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Letters, p. 5
    2. Busting Our Mental Blocks on Drugs and Crime by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 6-19
    3. The Stories Reporters Don't Write by John Rothchild, pp. 20-27
    4. Kennedy Center: Brand Name Culture in Another Rayburn Building by Barbara Raskin and Helen Goldberg, pp. 28-36
    5. Fighting Seniority with Bigotry by Robert N. Butler, pp. 37-42
    6. The Conference Committee: Congress' Final Filter by Albert Gore#2, pp. 43-48
    7. Memo of the Month, pp. 49-50
    8. How to Make $300,000 a Year After Bankruptcy by Murray Seeger, pp. 51-54
    9. The Political Puzzle, p. 55
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      Book Review by Anthony T. Podesta, pp. 56-62 - 2 Reviews
      1. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko
      2. Daley of Chicago by William Francis Gleason
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      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 4 Reviews
      1. America, Inc. by Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen
      2. America's Black Congressmen by Maurine Christopher
      3. The Case for Participatory Democracy by C. George Benello and Dimitri Roussopoulos
      4. Revolution Next Door by Gary MacEoin
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    July 1971 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, p. 2
    2. The Case Against Foundations by Taylor Branch, pp. 3-18
    3. Publishing Conglomerated: When Profits Become Censor by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 19-26
    4. Memo of the Month, p. 27
    5. The Wild Blue Yonder Over Laos by Fred Branfman, pp. 28-44
    6. The Vested Oracles: How Industry Regulates Government by Senator Lee Metcalf, pp. 45-53
    7. The Rise of the Small State by Michael Rappeport, pp. 54-55
    8. Muskie: A Sketch From the Inside by Joseph H. Nicholson, Jr., pp. 56-62
    9. Political Puzzle, p. 63
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      Book Notes, pp. 64-66 - 4 Reviews
      1. A Citizen's Guide to Legal Rights by J. Shane Creamer
      2. The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley by Richard Hammer
      3. The Politics of City Revenue by Arnold J. Meltsner
      4. The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy by Robert W. Tucker
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    August 1971 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 2-5
    2. Cooing Down the War: The Senate's Lame Doves by John Rothchild, pp. 6-20
    3. Testimony from the War's Trigger End by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. and Mike Betzold, p. 21
    4. Memo of the Month, pp. 21-35
    5. H. R. Gross: The Conscience of Uncle Sucker by Jacques Leslie, pp. 36-44
    6. Political Puzzle, p. 45
    7. Striking Out on Your Own by Paul Dickson, pp. 46-53
    8. The International Screw Thread Commission by Jim Clark, pp. 54-56
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      Book Review by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 57-63 - 2 Reviews
      1. Man and Atom by Glenn T. Seaborg and William R. Corliss
      2. Poisoned Power by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin
    10. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 64-66 - 2 Reviews
      1. Reapportionment in the 1970s by Nelson Polsby
      2. With Justice for Some by Bruce Wasserstein and Mark J. Green
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    September 1971 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-10
    2. The Terms of Tenure by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 11-16
    3. Chronic Epistilitis by Robert Taylor, pp. 17-19
    4. Agribusiness:Overkill on the Farm by Harrison Wellford, pp. 20-39
    5. The Twilight Zone of Government by John Rothchild, pp. 40-47
    6. Memo of the Month, p. 48
    7. Nationalizing the South by Michael Rappeport, pp. 49-51
    8. Political Puzzle, p. 52
    9. Aid to Brazil: From Dungeons to Disneyland by Taylor Branch, pp. 53-61
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      Political Book Notes, pp. 62-66 - 2 Reviews
      1. Blue-collar Workers by Sar A. Levitan
      2. Toward a Rational Power Policy by Neil Fabricant and Robert M. Hallman
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    October 1971 Issue = 9 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-7
    2. Is Camelot Dead? A New Look at John Kennedy by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 8-19
    3. The Political Puzzle, p. 20
    4. Israel: Yesterday's Hero by Georgie Anne Geyer, pp. 21-32
    5. The Screwing of the Average Man by John Rothchild, pp. 33-39
    6. Not When They Did Him Like That by Ron Pommbo, pp. 40-48
    7. Memo of the Month, p. 49
    8. The Odd Couple: Ellsberg and Otepka by Taylor Branch, pp. 50-60
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      Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 19 Reviews
      1. Choice and the Politics of Allocation by David Ernest Apter
      2. Essays in International Economics by J. Marcus Fleming
      3. For Peace and Justice by Charles Chatfield
      4. The Game of the Foxes by Ladislas Farago
      5. The Great American Bomb Machine by Roger Rapoport
      6. The Injury Industry and the Remedy of No-Fault Insurance by Jeffrey O'Connell
      7. Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
      8. Managing Large Systems by Leonard R. Sayles
      9. H.L. Mencken by Douglas C. Stenerson
      10. The Police and the Public by Albert J. Reiss, Jr.
      11. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom by Noam Chomsky
      12. The Presidency by Dale Vinyard
      13. Red Man's Land/White Man's Law by Wilcomb E. Washburn
      14. Religion and the Rise of the American City by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
      15. The Rights We Have by Osmond K. Fraenkel
      16. Think Tanks by Paul Dickson
      17. The UN and the Palestinian Refugees by Edward H. Buehrig
      18. Wage Restraint by Lloyd Ulman and Robert J. Flanagan
      19. Word Politics: Verbal Strategy Among the Superpowers by Thomas M. Franck and Edward Weisband
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    November 1971 Issue = 9 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-5
    2. Tragedy in Bengal: The Role of U. S. Foreign Policy by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, pp. 6-18
    3. Party Alignment: The Biggest Shift in 40 Years by Michael Rappeport, pp. 19-21
    4. The Roosevelts: Their Personal War on Poverty by Joseph P. Lash, pp. 22-37
    5. Political Puzzle, p. 38
    6. The Wall Street Treatment by Paul Dickson, pp. 39-46
    7. Memo of the Month, p. 47
    8. The Unnatural Gas Case by Michael Green, pp. 48-61
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      Political Book Notes, pp. 62-66 - 21 Reviews
      1. Alienation and Economics by Walter A. Weisskopf
      2. The American Left by Loren Baritz
      3. Blacks in America by James McPherson
      4. Blacks in the City by Guichard Parris and Leslie Brooks
      5. Dams and Other Disasters by Arthur Ernest Morgan
      6. Face and Shadow by Judah Stampfer
      7. The Failure of Independent Liberalism, 1930-1941 by R. Alan Lawson
      8. Financing Presidential Campaigns by Delmer D. Dunn
      9. The Future of Work and Leisure by Stanley Robert Parker
      10. Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America by Reynold M. Wik
      11. If They Come in the Morning... by Angela Y. Davis and Ruchell Magee
      12. Manpower for Development by Eli Ginzberg
      13. A Name for Ourselves by Paul Potter
      14. Pan-Africanism or Communism? by George Padmore
      15. The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws by Douglas W. Rae
      16. The Politics of Riot Commissions, 1917-1970 by Anthony M. Platt
      17. Retirement in American Society by Gordon Franklin Streib
      18. Riding the Storm, 1956-1959 by Harold MacMillan
      19. Selling Death by Thomas Whiteside
      20. A Special Interest by Leonard Greenbaum
      21. Water Wasteland by David Zwick and Marcy Benstock
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