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Provides information on the operations of several right-wing groups in the U.S. as of September 1964. Goal of the Life Line Foundation established by Texas oil billionaire H. L. Hunt; Spending of the John Birch Society by Robert Welch which is committed to fighting the Communist menace in 1963; Functions of the American Security Council of Chicago formed in 1955 by William F. Carroll; Objective of the Citizens Foreign Aid Committee of Washington.

This article presents the political condition of the United States. It is the moment when the country desperately needs a leftward movement of wide appeal, the Republican Party has become the refuge of the arid Right. Its conservative guise is a fraud. A politician does not become a creative conservative by capitalizing the first letter of the word. In the coming campaign, liberals should not be intimidated by the outworn cliché that national stability depends on the existence of two major parties, each half liberal and half reactionary.

This article reports on a recent declaration of war made by U.S. President Richard Nixon, against drug abuse. President Nixon also gave emphasis to the home front and dismissed the high incidence of drug dependency among the military in Vietnam as a disheartening but "by no means a major part of the American narcotics problem." However, this down-playing in the message to Congress was a little deceptive. The fact is that soldiers returning home are in deplorable shape from exposure to an environment in which heroin is as easy to get as aspirin or chewing gum.

Explains that the United States Congress is attempting to settle how much of Alaska's natural resources its aborigines, some 60,000 Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians are to get. Permit sought by the oil industry for construction of a pipeline from the North Slope to the Gulf of Alaska; Congress' self-assigned responsibility for giving Alaska's poor Native minority a proper reckoning.

Ordinarily, a group that called itself the Greater St. Louis Citizens Committee for Nuclear Information (CNI) would not be expected to last for any great period of time. Yet the committee now is striding vigorously into its second year. It has turned out to be an unusually happy union of scientific knowledge and civic leadership. At the outset, CNI decided it would not be an action group that is to say, it would take no position for or against testing of nuclear weapons, even though the sentiment of the organizing spirits was clearly and outspokenly against. The committee's drive to collect 50,000 baby teeth, to be analyzed for strontium-90, got headlines throughout the world press.

Talks about the educational progress of schools in St. Louis, Missouri. Efforts of school officials to raise the student level of achievement; Launch of educational programs which aim to improve the academic performances of children; Importance of the attitude and morale of parents to the education of their children.

Examines the report on open spaces submitted by Public Land Laws Review Commission Chairman Wayne Aspinall to Congress and President Richard Nixon. Length of time and amount of money consumed by Aspinall to make the report; Appraisal of land values in the Western states and Alaska; Background on the other members of the commission spearheaded by Aspinall; Controversial findings included in the report including the need to classify forests and explore and develop public lands.

Focuses on recommendation of the Cabinet Task Force of the U.S. President on oil import control. Amount paid by the U.S. each year for oil; Benefits of the preferential tariff system proposed by the task force to the U.S.

Focuses on the proposals of U.S. President Richard Nixon on natural gas. Report that in his message on energy, the President urged Congress to end the Federal Power Commission's regulation of new natural gas prices at the wellhead; Report that the oil import quota system is declared obsolete; Report that in place of quantitative restrictions, Nixon has moved to a carefully structured license fee system for imports; Views of Senator Henry Jackson on the proposal; View that Congress ought to look at the President's recommendations, some of them excellent, very carefully, especially the proposal on deregulation of natural gas.

Focuses on the U.S. foreign policy towards Vietnam during the 1970's. Rationale behind using air and naval power to prevent a communist take-over in South Vietnam; Views of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon on social and economic issues in the U.S.; Visit of Nixon with Treasury Secretary John B. Connally.