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April 3, 1965

The New Yorker cover for April 3, 1965

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fiction

Orphans’ Progress

Mavis Gallant

Fiction, from 1965: The children did not know that they were living under what would later be called “unsheltered conditions.” They didn’t know that they were uneducated, and dirty, and in danger.

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THE TAX

John Brooks

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SAND AND WIND AND WAVES.

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