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December 1966

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: Clocks and watches PDF IMAGES
4-18	Letters/Department Letters On Men facing death, from September 1966: Letter By Charles Joyce Letter By Frances Elaine Castan Letter By General S.L.A. Marshall Letter By Mrs. L.P. Crocker On My hero LBJ, from October 1966: Letter By Richard P. Daniel Letter By Frazer Edmonds Letter By Alan M. Laufman Note/correction Letter By Stephen J. Spingarn On The making of President Robert Kennedy, from October 1966: Letter By Paul Plawin Letter By Samuel London On The uncertain future of the multiversity, from October 1966: Letter By O.L. Brannaman Letter By Mary N. Gunther Letter By Daniel E. Teodoru Letter By Paul Piehler PDF IMAGES
20-30	The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Fox, Brendan; Breweries; Career as Catholic priest; Career as editor; Career as teacher of American literature; Career in knife-making; Career in savings and loan associations; Catholic Church; Ashby, Eric; High school libraries; Humor; Boylan, James; Schejbal, Jaroslav; Davis, Joseph E.; Library buildings; Salzburg; Savings and loan associations; Randall, W.D. PDF IMAGES
23	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Centaurs PDF IMAGES
33-34	After hours/Article Movers and shakers: 1. Movers By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art museum attendance; Exhibitions; Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
34-40	After hours/Article Movers and shakers: 2. Shakers By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Conservation and restoration; Historic sites; Religious communities; Shakers PDF IMAGES
38	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article Taking the Great Society seriously By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: 1960-1980; 1961-1971; 1963-1969; Social change PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article The intellectual and emotional world of the cockroach By Howard Eneign Evans SEE ALSO: Cockroaches; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
55	Poem Fabrication By John L'Heureux PDF IMAGES
56-60	Article How to manage your time: Everybody's no. 1 problem By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Executives; Management; Time management PDF IMAGES
59	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Offices PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction Trepleff By MacDonald Harris PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article What I did to books and vice versa By Richard Kluger SEE ALSO: Book reviewing; Career as editor of “Book week” (New York Herald tribune); Criticism; Critics; Kluger, Richard PDF IMAGES
79-86	Article Diary of a Russian surgeon By Nikolaæi Mikhaæilovich Amosoff SEE ALSO: Career as heart surgeon; Heart; Amosoff, Nikolaæi Mikhaæilovich; Surgeons; Surgery PDF IMAGES
87-97	Article New York's late-blooming state university By Ronald Gross and Judith Murphy SEE ALSO: Career as president of the State University of New York; Education, Higher; Gould, Samuel B. PDF IMAGES
97	Poem Insouciance By John (John W.) Dickson PDF IMAGES
98-107	Article The West's land of surprises, some terrible By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Deserts PDF IMAGES
105	Cartoon “Is there a Mrs. Cousteau?” SEE ALSO: Mermaids PDF IMAGES
108-113	Washington insight/Article A tale of one city—and two men By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Kennedy, John F.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1961-1963; 1963-1969; Views on Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PDF IMAGES
114	How it is/Article How we integrated the Urban League By Whitney M. Young SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Discrimination in employment; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
116-118	The new books/Review Sex: The amateurs and the virtuosi By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Magee, Brian; Gerassi, John; Fast, Julius; One in twenty: a study of homosexuality in men and women (Book); Sex; The boys of Boise: furor, vice, and folly in an American city (Book); The many faces of sex (Book); The sex kick: eroticism in modern America (Book); Reik, Theodor; Coffin, Tristram; What you should know about human sexual response (Book) PDF IMAGES
120-127	The new books/Review A selective self-potrait By Robert Craft SEE ALSO: Thomson, Virgil PDF IMAGES
127-134	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A Christmas memory (Book); A law unto themselves: twelve portraits (Book); Calder, Alexander; Sulzberger, C.L.(Cyrus Leo); Parkinson, C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote); Calder: an autobiography with pictures (Book); Doublefields: memories and stories (Book); Enright, Elizabeth; Sagan, Françoise; Frank, Gerold; Wish, Harvey; Barzun, Jacques; De Hartog, Jan; Stein, Jess M.; West, Jessamyn; La chamade (Book); Urdang, Laurence; Redfield, Malissa; Modern American usage (Book); Osborn, Robert Chesley; The American Heritage picture history of World War II (Book); The Boston Strangler (Book); The captain (Book); The country of love (Book); The Oxford companion to American history (Book); The Random House dictionary of the English language (Book); Johnson, Thomas Herbert; Capote, Truman; Follett, Wilson PDF IMAGES
135	Notice Nehru Memorial Museum & Library SEE ALSO: Nehru, Jawaharlal; Museums; New Delhi PDF IMAGES
136-139	Performing arts/Review On the midway at Lincoln Center By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Loves of a blonde (Motion picture); Metropolitan Opera (New York, New York); Forman, Milos; Motion pictures; Opera; Barber, Samuel PDF IMAGES
138	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
140-142	Music in the round/Review New talents By Discus SEE ALSO: Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica. Reger: Cello sonata (Sound recording); Suliotis, Elena; Granados, Enrique; Enrique Granados (Sound recording); Busoni, Ferruccio; Verdi, Giuseppe; Reger, Max; Caballé, Montserrat; Performances; Serkin, Peter; Ferrer, Rafael; Verdi: Nabucco (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
142	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Sibelius, Aino; Brendel, Alfred; Janigro, Antonio; Berlin Philharmonic; Karajan, Herbert von; Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 9 in E flat (K. 271) and 14 in E flat (K. 449) (Sound recording); Performances; Sibelius: Symphony no 4; The swan of Tuonela (Sound recording); Solisti di Zagreb; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES