ISSUE DATE: October 6, 1969; Vol LXXXIV, No 14

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COVER: The Troubled American: Special Report on the White Majority.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE TROUBLED AMERICAN MAJORITY: No one can mark the precise moment when the new current began running deep in the American psyche. It surfaced in fragmentary ways -- backlashy election returns, defeated school-bond issues, angry white counterdemonstrations against unrelenting black demands, and a sullen new tone in. the talk at laundermats and corner taverns, the barber shops and beauty parlors where Richard Nixon's "forgotten Americans" gather. The white middle-class majority was rediscovering itself, totting up its discontents and beginning to reassert its political clout. But how strong was the new tide and what did it portend for the nation?

Three months ago, Newsweek's editors decided to undertake a major assessment of the shifting American mood. National Affairs editor Edward Kosner organized the effort that brought together editors and correspondents from New York and eight domestic bureaus, the resources of The Gallup Organization and the expertise of Newsweek's polling consultant, Richard M. Scammon. For this week's special survey, Gallup interviewers polled an outsize sampling of 2,165 white Americans. Los Angeles bureau chief Karl Fleming toured the nation for a personal report on what Middle America is talking about. In Washington, bureauman Richard Stout reported the view from the Capital, while a score of other correspondents around the U.S. interviewed political scientists, sociologists and local politicians -- among them, Newark's chesty Tony lmperiale, who gave reporter Toni Mathews an impromptu lesson in karate.

The resulting 32-page special report on The Troubled American includes Kosner's survey of the new mood, General Editor Lawrence S. Martz's analysis of the poll, General Editor Kenneth Auchincloss's profile of the emerging new breed of outspoken folk politicians, Fleming's report, Scammon's discussion of the national political implications of the new balance of power, and nine pages of color photographs of life in Middle America. (Newsweek cover photo by Charles Harbutt -- Magnum).

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National and International news; Art: The Lehman Mansion artworks (photos); Business: Inflation '70: and the beat goes on; Black Monday and White Friday; Movies: New York's Film Festival No 7; Books: Svetlana Alliluyeva; Jakov Lind; Music; Theatre; MORE. PLUS: THE COLUMNISTS: Paul A. Samuelson -- True Income. Stewart Alsop -- A Lesson of the '60s.
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