ISSUE DATE: July 6, 1970; Vol. LXXVI, No. 1

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COVER: THE SPIRIT OF '70. Six historians on the American Crisis.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE SPIRIT OF '70: Increasingly over the past year, America has come to think of itself as a nation in crisis. Divided by war, inflamed by racial conflict, beset by inflation, bedeviled by the disaffection of its children, the nation began to wonder whether it could long endure as more than a population and a piece of territory. Thus the crisis atmosphere-and the belief that America's current torment was unique in its 194-year history.

Was it? In this Fourth of July season-a time customarily devoted to celebrating America-the editors of Newsweek decided to depart from the magazine's regular role of reporting and analyzing the news and to seek a longer perspective on the state of the nation. Six of the country's best-known historians were asked to assess the national spirit of '70 in the context of the whole American experience.

The six contributors are men of widely divergent backgrounds and points of view. Two are men of the left: EUGENE O. GENOVESE of the University of Rochester and STAUGHTON LYND. Two are centrist liberals: RICHARD HOFSTADTER of Columbia and ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. And two are, relatively speaking, conservatives: ANDREW HACKER of Cornell and DANIEL J. BOORSTIN of the Smithsonian Institution.

National Affairs editor Edward Kosner, who coordinated the project, invited each of the six to address himself to a single set of questions: a Is America experiencing a crisis of the spirit? If so, what are its roots and symptoms? If the crisis is in fact illusory, what accounts for the widespread sense that something is going wrong?.

What are the historic parallels-if any-to the current American condition? Are its roots older than the present problems of war, race, dissent and technology? If today's mood is more acute than past psychic recessions in America, what factors make it so?.

Where is the current crisis-if there is one-leading us? Basically, do you feel that the ferment today is a sign of vigor and health or a harbinger of further turmoil and disintegration? Are we at the hour before the dawn, or are we, as Professor Hacker has suggested, at the end of the American era?.

The six responses appear in the special section be. ginning on page 19 with a prologue by Senior Editor Peter Goldman. The assessments are as various as the men who wrote them-except on the fundamental single point that America at this 194th birthday is as profoundly under challenge as it has ever been. (Newsweek cover photo by Wally McNamee. Eagle courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.).

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The spirit of '70: six historians on the American crisis" (the cover.
President Nixon's one-upmanship baffles the Senate doves.
New York's primary elections.
The fighting Indians of Alcatraz.

INTERNATIONAL:
The Mideast: amid rising tension, a US. push for peace.
Growing strains on U.S-Japanese ties.
Britain: Heath moves in.
Ecuador: from President to dictator.
Probing-and progress-in the SALT talks.
France's ambitious Servan-Schreiber.
West Germany: setback for Willy Brandt.
Joseph Stalin's new image.
THE WAR IN INDOCHINA: Cambodia: the U.S-Vietnamese presence.

SPORTS:
Tony Jacklin, golf's King of England.
Brazil's wild World Cup soccer triumph.
THE CITIES:
Crackdown on Chicago's ambulance racket.
The battle for suburban low-income housing.
THE MEDIA:
Where did Britain's pollsters go wrong?.
The New Statesman gets a new editor.
TV time for the party out of power.
Michael Dann leaves CBS for public TV.
MEDICINE:
The AMA: new directions.
Enzymes made to order.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
Shock waves from Penn Central's bankruptcy.
Wall Street: the liquidity problem.
Trade: back to protectionism?.
House-cleaning time at lOS; and some.
answers from Bernard Cornfelct.
Litton wins a $25 billion destroyer job.
EDUCATION:
Stanford loses its hard-working president.
Community colleges for all?.
LIFE AND LEISURE:
Living in a mobile-home park.
Taking a bath in a cable car.
THE COLUMNISTS:
Kenneth Crawford-The Senate Stammers.
Milton Friedman-Monetary Overheating?.
Stewart Alsop-Not Whether-How.

THE ARTS:
THEATER: Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena".
BOOKS:
Stephen B. Oates's life of John Brown.
Walker Gilmer's life of Horace Liveright.
"Two Sisters," by Gore Vidal.
MOVIES: "Myra Breckinridge": Hollywood's subcellar.
MUSIC:
"The River," a new ballet by Alvin Alley and Duke Ellington.
The songs of Dory Previn.
ART: Victor Vasarely's new art museum.

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