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September 1966

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
4-14	Letters/Department Letters On Bob Jones University, from June 1966: Letter By Horace P. Dean On A possibly practical utopia, from July 1966: Letter By Henry C. Wallich Letter By Don Kelly Letter By Jr. and Robert E. Simon On The case against the supersonic transport, from July 1966: Letter By Jack A. Wahle Letter By R.A. Bailey Letter By John E. Gibson On Pleasure dome '66, from July 1966: Letter By Jeff Swanson PDF IMAGES
14	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
16-27	The editor's easy chair/Article Why our scientists are about to be dragged, moaning, into politics By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Research and development contracts, Government; Science and state; Scientists PDF IMAGES
19	Cartoon Cartoon PDF IMAGES
30-37	After hours/Article The group, or us old men and the sea By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Fishing; Journeys—Florida—Gasparilla Island; Mexico, Gulf of; Lynes, Russell PDF IMAGES
38-44	Washington insight/Article The repulse of the swing set By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Dance parties; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Repair and reconstruction; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); Views on dance parties PDF IMAGES
44	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Leaks (Disclosure of information); Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
47-57	Article Men facing death: The destruction of an American platoon By S.L.A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood) Marshall SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Career as war correspondent for Look magazine; Death and burial; Operation Crazy Horse, 1966; Castan, Sam; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article The style of the Catholic left By John Corry SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Church and social problems; Radicalism; Religion and politics PDF IMAGES
60	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Monks; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
63	Poem 1958 By Robert Lowell PDF IMAGES
64-74	Article How a playwright triumphs By Clifford Odets SEE ALSO: Career as playwright; Odets, Clifford; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
69	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
75-80	Article How playwrights lose By Walter Kerr SEE ALSO: Authors and the theater; Career as director; Dramatists; Littlewood, Joan; Brook, Peter; Production and direction; Theatrical producers and directors PDF IMAGES
78	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Theaters PDF IMAGES
80	Poem Après l'opéra By David R. Slavitt PDF IMAGES
81-85	Article All cows are mean By Joan O. Harvey SEE ALSO: Cows; Dairy farming; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
86-93	Article A Scottish mother for an African tribe By Naomi Mitchison SEE ALSO: Botswana; Scots; White women PDF IMAGES
94-100	Fiction Animals in the house By Nancy Hale PDF IMAGES
101-106	Article Russell of Georgia: The old guard at its shrewdest By Douglas Kiker SEE ALSO: Career in United States Senate; Conservatism; Friends and associates; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; Political and social views; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard) PDF IMAGES Collection Russell of Georgia: the old guard at its shrewdest PDF IMAGES
106	Article Guarding his turf SEE ALSO: Career in United States Senate; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard) PDF IMAGES
107-108	The new books/Review Biology: The new salvation of man By Howard Ensign Evans SEE ALSO: Human behavior; Lorenz, Konrad; Wilson, Marjorie Kerr; On aggression (Book); Ardrey, Robert; The territorial imperative (Book) PDF IMAGES
108-109	The new books/Review A do-it-yourself guide to mis-planned estates By Julian S. Bush SEE ALSO: How to avoid probate (Book); Dacey, Norman F. PDF IMAGES
109-110	The new books/Review Celebrating a century of Peter Rabbit By Alan Pryce-Jones SEE ALSO: Potter, Beatrix; Diaries; Linder, Leslie; The journals of Beatrix Potter, 1881-1897 (Book); Women authors, English PDF IMAGES
110-113	The new books/Review Two fast curves and a change of pace By Jim Brosnan SEE ALSO: Hirshberg, Albert; Backstage at the Mets (Book); Baseball; Einstein, Charles; Cook, Earnshaw; Nelson, Lindsey; Percentage baseball (Book); Mays, Willie; Willie Mays (Book) PDF IMAGES
113-115	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Roderick Cook SEE ALSO: A girl like I (Book); Loos, Anita; Hammett, Dashiell; Stanford, Derek; Emily Brontë (Book); Four plays (Book); Lambert, Gavin; Incident at Exeter (Book); Fuller, John Grant; Updike, John; Hellman, Lillian; Esterow, Milton; Spark, Muriel; Delbanco, Nicholas; Norman's letter (Book); White, Patrick; The art stealers (Book); The big knockover (Book); The martlet's tale (Book); The music school (Book) PDF IMAGES
116-119	Performing arts: the Midwest/Review Grandeur in Ypsilanti, gaiety in Minneapolis By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Aeschylus; Aristophanes; Lahr, Bert; Anderson, Judith, Dame; Geer, Ellen; Greek drama; Brookes, Jacqueline; King, John Michael; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Performances—Michigan—Ypsilanti—20th century; Performances—Minnesota—Minneapolis—20th century; Dee, Ruby; Wilder, Thornton; Shakespeare, William; Ypsilanti PDF IMAGES
120-122	Music in the round/Review Discovering a French original By Discus SEE ALSO: Career as composer; Chabrier, Emmanuel; Emmanuel Chabrier (Sound recording); Performances; Kyriakou, Rena PDF IMAGES
122	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Sibelius, Aino; Berlin Philharmonic; Brahms: String quartets (3, complete). Schumann: Piano quintet (Sound recording); Budapest String Quartet; Chopin: Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor; Four Mazurkas (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Chopin, Frédéric; Demus, Jörg; Semkow, Jerzy; Brahms, Johannes; Bernstein, Leonard; New York Philharmonic; Performances; Schumann, Robert; Serkin, Rudolf; Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis (Op. 24) (Sound recording); Sibelius: Symphony no. 5; Pohjola's daughter (Sound recording); Vasary, Tamás PDF IMAGES