ISSUE DATE: January 27, 1969; Vol LXXIII, No 4, 1/27/69

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
COVER STORY: The Nixon Era Begins: His long days and years of waiting were finally over -- it was President Nixon now, and however beset with problems the office might be, the 37th Chief Executive entered it with an appeal to national unity -- and with every sign of confidence and even joy. (In passing, he picked up a minor distinction: like incumbents of the White House before him, he is now the only man Newsweek invariably calls "Mr.") This week's account of the onset of Mr. Nixon's Administration was reported by Senior Editor James Cannon, Henry Hubbard and Jayne Brumley, and was written by Senior Editor Peter Goldman. Staff photographer Wally McNamee contributes a color portfolio of scenes of the capital (page 23) as it awaits another changing of the guard. (Newsweek cover photo by © karsh from Rapho Guillumette.)

SOCIETY WATCHING: A lively and irreverent breed of society reporters has remade the staid old women's pages of top newspapers, producing some hard- news beats and highly readable popular sociology in the process. Watching the society-watchers watch society were Jane Whitmore in Washington and Pamela Susskind in New York. Press editor Lee Smith wrote the story.

ART AND RACE: Peggy Guggenheim showed her great collection of modern arE (see color pages) at her Uncle Solomon's Guggenheim Museum in New York last week, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Museum which mounted a controversial Harlem documentary exhibit. Senior edi- torial assistant Ann Ray Martin talked with Mrs. Guggenheim as well as with black dissidents about the shows and Art editor David Shirey wrote the stories.

LBJ'S ECONOMIC SWAN SONG: Lyndon Johnson's economic swan song last week was a proud recit- al of gains and a last hurrah for the Great Society. For the future, he offered a "tight" budget of $195.3 billion -- the biggest in history -- and another year of the 10 per cent income-tax surcharge. The un- happiest Johnson legacy for the new Nixon Administration: inflation. It could be dealt with in the classic way -- by provoking a recession -- but LBJ called that a "prescription for social disaster." More likely, the Nixon team would follow the milder Johnson strategy of slowing growth. From reports by Washington correspondent Henry T. Sim- mons, General Editor Lawrence S. Martz examines the Johnson budget and Economic Report in this week's Spotlight on Business.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Into the Nixon era (the cover).
The big problems facing the new President.
LBJ's nostalgic valedictory.
The Senate clings to the filibuster rule.
Democrats: out but not down.
The Sirhan trial: a question of degree.
chip Bohlen's last assignment.
Two faces from the Mccarthy era.
Disaster aboard the Enterprise.
New York city's poverty-fund scandal.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM:
The peace talks begin at last.
What "peace" means to the vietnamese.
INTERNATIONAL:
The Mideast: a U.S-Soviet solution?.
The dwindling importance of the Suez canal.
charles de Gaulle and the Jews.
Couve de Murville, Gaullist storm center.
England's hippie aristocrats.
Prague's human torch of dissent.
A visit to Liberia's Negro Israelites.
RELIGION: The vatican's defunct but perpetual sees; Black power in inner-city churches.
SPORTS:
Football's AFL comes of age.
Alaska's chilling snowmobile race.
LIFE AND LEISURE: House hunting for the cabinet.
PRESS: The bold new breed of society reporters.
TV-RADIO: The girls from "Laugh-In'.
MEDICINE: Making the first synthetic enzyme; TLC for miscarriages.
EDUCATION: The rhetoric of campus revolt; The swing to coed colleges.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
LBJ's "tight" budget -- $195 billion blueprint for Nixon (Spotlight on Business).
The IBM antitrust suit.
A taxpayer revolt?.
Wall Street: the market's foreign market.
The fashion buyers -- makers and breakers.
GM's fresh air of candor.
SCIENCE AND SPACE: Russia's spacewalk and linkup; Will Nixon boost NASA's waning budget?
THE COLUMNISTS:
Kenneth Crawford -- LBJ and His Critics.
Paul A. Samuelson -- Business in a Doghouse.
Stewart Alsop -- Nixon and the New Bourgeoisie.

THE ARTS:
ART:
Peggy Guggenheim's collection.
The Met's Harlem show under fire.
MOVIES:
"Pierrot le Fou": fugue for lovers.
"Three in the Attic": reckless energy.
BOOKS:
Harrison E. Salisbury's "The 900 Days".
Louis-Ferdinand celine's "Castle to Castle".
John S.D. Eisenhower's "The Bitter Woods".
MUSIC: Trouble in the cultural complexes.
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