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April 1966

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
6-16	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from January 1966: Letter By Jr. and Arthur Schlesinger On A communication on Vietnam, from February 1966: Letter By James H. Stratton Letter By Joseph S. Clark Letter By Jr. and R.D. Heinl Letter By R.J. Mead Letter By General James M. Gavin On Genetics and the survival of the unfit, from February 1966: Letter By M.D., Virginia Apgar, and M.P.H. Letter By Daniel M. Lane Letter By Ruth Y. Berini On Needed, from February 1966: Letter By John H. Fischer Letter By Alexander Rosenblatt On Contagious sense of discovery, from February 1966: Letter By Arnold Beichman Letter By Professor Klaus Epstein PDF IMAGES
20-33	The easy chair/Article Billboards, glass houses, and the law By Richard F. Babcock SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Architecture; Billboards; Building; Building laws; Roadside improvement; Suburbs; Urban beautification PDF IMAGES
36-40	After hours/Article Two wheeler By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Cycling; Middle aged men PDF IMAGES
40-45	After hours/Article A profane view of bull baiting By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Bullfights; Journeys—Portugal—Lisbon; Lisbon; Lisbon (Portugal); Portugal; Lynes, Russell PDF IMAGES
46-47	Washington insight/Article A new appraisal of the old domino game By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Gavin, James M. (James Maurice); Views on Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PDF IMAGES
47-49	Washington insight/Article White House style-makers By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Kennedy, John F.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Oratory PDF IMAGES
49-50	Washington insight/Article Poor Judd is not dead By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Views on Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Judd, Walter PDF IMAGES
50	Washington insight/Article Too many blank checks? By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Powers and duties; Separation of powers; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES Washington insight/Article Greener pastures By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: College teachers; Faculty; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
53-62	Article The several worlds of American Jews: An unauthorized guide By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Customs and practices; Identity; Jews; Judaism; Philanthropists; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
58	Poem Sand hill road By Morton Grosser PDF IMAGES
63-68	Fiction There's a camel in my cocktail By William Eastlake PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article Digging up prehistoric America By Robert Claiborne SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Contributions to archaeology; Corn; Evolution; Excavations (Archaeology); Food; Indians of Mexico; Prehistoric peoples; MacNeish, Richard S. PDF IMAGES
75-83	Article New York's schoolhouse for the Left By Edward Grossman SEE ALSO: Krebs, Allen; Alternative education; Alternative schools; Career as president of the Free University of New York (FUNY); New Left; Radicalism PDF IMAGES
83	Poem Where we are By William Stafford PDF IMAGES
84-91	Article A new grandeur for Washington By Douglas Putnam Haskell SEE ALSO: Architecture; City planning; Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.); Public buildings; Public spaces; Urban beautification PDF IMAGES
94-102	Article The hazardous art of mistranslation By Andrew Robert MacAndrew SEE ALSO: Babel; Céline; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Maupassant, Guy de; Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David); Literature; Proust, Marcel; Zoshchenko, Mikhail; Translations into English; Translations into Russian; Translators; Tolstoy, Leo, graf PDF IMAGES
103-109	Article One cow, one vote: A strenuous session in the Montana legislature By Margaret Scherf SEE ALSO: Career in Montana legislature; Legislative bodies; Scherf, Margaret; Montana; State governments PDF IMAGES
109	Poem Demise of a party-people By Luke Grande PDF IMAGES
110-111	Poem Trembling the inner wall By Esther Gurewitz PDF IMAGES
112-113	Article Murder with feathers By Charles G. (Charles Grandison) Finney SEE ALSO: Aggressive behavior in animals; Bird watching; Birds PDF IMAGES
114-117	The new books/Review Four books on de Gaulle and the future of Europe By James M. (James Maurice) Gavin SEE ALSO: An explanation of de Gaulle (Book); Biography—Book reviews; Gaulle, Charles de; Calleo, David P.; Schoenbrun, David; De Gaulle (Book); Europe's future: the grand alternatives (Book); Mauriac, François; Sinclair, Marianne; Political science; Howard, Richard; Aron, Robert; The three lives of Charles de Gaulle (Book) PDF IMAGES
117-119	The new books/Review “Written in cold fury” By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Myers, Arthur; Automobile industry and trade; O'Connell, Jeffrey; Nader, Ralph; Safety last! An indictment of the auto industry (Book); Unsafe at any speed: the designed-in dangers of the American automobile (Book) PDF IMAGES
120-121	The new books/Review Notes on reputation By Daniel Stern SEE ALSO: A generous man (Book); Jacobson, Dan; Hersey, John; Price, Reynolds; The beginners (Book); Too far to walk (Book) PDF IMAGES
121-122	The new books/Review Love affair with an airplane By Richard Bach SEE ALSO: Glines, Carroll V.; Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane); The DC-3—the story of a fabulous ariplane (Book); Moseley, Wendell F. PDF IMAGES
122-123	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A mother in history (Book); A walk in the spring rain (Book); Adlai Stevenson (Book); MacInnes, Helen; Colegate, Isabel; Stafford, Jean; Ross, Lillian; Maddux, Rachel; Raynolds, Robert; Statues in a garden (Book); The double image (Book); Thomas Wolfe: memoir of a friendship (Book) PDF IMAGES
124-127	Performing arts: New York/Review Nothing but talent By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Inadmissable evidence (Play); King, James; Osborne, John; Marat/Sade (Play); Metropolitan Opera (New York, New York); Freni, Mirella; Caballé, Montserrat; Williamson, Nicol; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Operas; Performances; Performing arts; Weiss, Peter; Scotto, Renata PDF IMAGES Performing arts/Department Performing arts PDF IMAGES
126	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
128-130	Music in the round/Review Piano notes By Discus SEE ALSO: Larrocha, Alicia de; Berlin Philharmonic; Rosen, Charles; Chopin: No. 1 in E minor; Mazurkas (Sound recording); Chopin: No. 2 in F minor. Bach: D minor concerto (Sound recording); Chopin: Preludes; Berceuse; F minor fantasy (Sound recording); Zinman, David; Chopin, Frédéric; Darré, Jeanne-Marie; Semkow, Jerzy; Bach, Johann Sebastian; London Symphony; Performances; Vasary, Tamás; Ashkenazy, Vladimir PDF IMAGES
130	Jazz notes/Review Garçon By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Brel, Jacques; The poetic world of Jacques Brel (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES