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The magazine's size and influence grew dramatically over these years. Moving to monthly production, combined subscriptions and newsstand sales increased from just under 100,000 at the end of 1966 to nearly 250,000 in 1968, a figure more than double that of the liberal weekly,
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The founding location was an office space at 1182 Chestnut Street, Menlo Park, California. Edward Keating and his wife Helen (nÊe English) personally financed the magazine. The early magazine included pieces by
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asked for a report, and files were gathered on many of the editors and writers. According to a book published in 2008, it was the first time the CIA had targeted a US publication, a violation of the
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wrote "The Politics of Orgasm". The male editorial board first laughed at Lydon's proposed article, but she persisted. Upon publication, the article sparked widespread discussion of the
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would continue his advocacy of black nationalism until his return to America from exile; from then on, Cleaver identified himself as a conservative Republican and Mormon.
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operate at a heavy financial loss during the last years of the 1960s, with its operating deficit topping $ 500,000 a year in both 1967 and 1968.
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and a temporary cessation of production followed. The magazine's temporary shift to a biweekly format and an expensive trip to cover the
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became a co-founder and executive director of the Center for Cuban Studies, and the founder and curator of the Cuban Art Space gallery.
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was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the
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In June 1972, the magazine printed the wiring schematics necessary to create a mute box (a variant of the
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led to financial instability, as did a drop in subscriptions. With a reduced budget and a smaller staff,
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One of the magazine's most controversial covers depicted the hands of four of its editors holding
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Beginning in 1966, American authorities began investigating the magazine's funding, suspecting
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Despite its impressive circulation figures, high production and promotional costs made
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A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America
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Pepper, William F. (January 1967). "The Children of Vietnam - Photographs and Text".
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If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade: An Essential Memoir of a Lunatic Decade
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acknowledged "The Politics of Orgasm" as "one of our great articles."
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political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day,
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James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
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later represented the radical Catholic perspective with the books
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The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
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James F. Colaianni (August 1966). "Napalm: A Smalltown Diary".
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Several former staffers went on to found their own magazines.
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to oppose the war publicly for the first time, and he offered
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in that conflict. "The Children of Vietnam", a January 1967
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Defunct political magazines published in the United States
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List of underground newspapers of the 1960s counterculture
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wrote the first national article denouncing the US use of
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Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
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for Magazine Reporting. In August 1966, managing editor
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was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated.
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Burns, Jeffrey M. (June 1990). "No Longer Emerging:
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for what is widely regarded as the first example of
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"NSA and the CIA". 591:magazine who later started working for the 577:The magazine is mentioned in the 1999 film 305:also covered conspiracy theories about the 1282: 1246:. Vol. 6, no. 4. pp. 33–42. 1235: 828: 786: 759: 747: 707: 695: 683: 671: 1076: 934: 357:. The CIA failed to find communist ties. 1250: 1117: 1041: 719: 627: 1216: 994: 278:revealed links between the CIA and the 1388: 1369:New York Times Sunday Review of Books, 1261: 1147: 970: 921: 915: 882: 855: 813: 16:1962-75 American political publication 1301: 1173: 981: 979: 924:"Back When Ramparts Did the Storming" 894: 867: 571: 1401:1975 disestablishments in California 1283:Richardson, Peter (18 August 2009). 652: 650: 518:, was a senior correspondent in the 349:financial connections. 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Index

Warren Hinckle
James F. Colaianni
Edward Michael Keating
Edward Michael Keating
Menlo Park, California
OCLC
24204009
New Left
Edward Michael Keating Sr.
Menlo Park, California
Catholic
Thomas Merton
John Howard Griffin
Warren Hinckle
San Francisco
Colombo Building
Robert Scheer
managing editor
opponent of the Vietnam War
Michigan State University Group
CIA
George Polk Award
James F. Colaianni
napalm
photo-essay
William F. Pepper
Martin Luther King Jr.
National Student Association
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty

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