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March 1969

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: Flags PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On The man who ran against Lyndon Johnson, from December 1968: Letter By Sandord Gottleib On The White House and the intellectuals, from January 1969: Letter By Saul Maloff Letter By Richard N. Goodwin Letter By Charlton Heston Letter By Alan Dugan Letter By Paul Goodman On No. 7, from February 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES Poem Sixties By Lawrence Durrell PDF IMAGES
12-24	The easy chair/Article Some guesses about the next Kremlin conspiracy By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as Soviet premier; Cold War; 1953-1985; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
28-38	Washington report/Article 536 characters in search of a legislative program By Arthur I. Blaustein SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Legislation; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
41-49	Article Vietnam and the end of the age of superpowers By Arthur Meier Schlesinger SEE ALSO: History, Military; Imperialism; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; Nationalism; Policy on Vietnam PDF IMAGES
50-57	Article Harold E. Hughes: Evangelist from the prairies By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Career as governor of Iowa; Career as U.S. senator; Hughes, Harold E. (Harold Everett); Iowa PDF IMAGES
57	Poem The place where I've not been By Yehuda Amichai PDF IMAGES
58-70	Article Jesse Jackson: Heir to Dr. King? By Richard Levine SEE ALSO: African American clergy; Career as civil rights leader; Civil rights movements; Friends and associates; Jackson, Jesse; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Public opinion PDF IMAGES
63	Cartoon “I don't think any of this was here when we passed by last night.” SEE ALSO: Motels PDF IMAGES
70	Cartoon “You're 88, Junius. Don't you think you'd better start reading the classics?” SEE ALSO: Aged men; Birthdays PDF IMAGES
71-80	Article e.e. cummings: Twenty-three letters By E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin); Family; Friends and associates; Poets, American PDF IMAGES
81-90	Fiction Nights at O'Rear's By Patricia Browning Griffith PDF IMAGES
90	Poem Statues By John Ratti PDF IMAGES
91-100	Article The new geography By Peter Gould SEE ALSO: Cartography; Computer programs; Demography; Geography PDF IMAGES
98	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Spider webs; Unidentified flying objects PDF IMAGES
102-105	Books/Review From the other side of the moon By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Kosinski, Jerzy N.; Steps (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-109	Books/Review A rose for Emily By Justin Kaplan SEE ALSO: Post, Elizabeth L.; Post, Emily; Emily Post's etiquette Twelfth revised edition. (Book); Etiquette; Etiquette: in society, in business, in politics, and at home (Book) PDF IMAGES Cartoon “We can't go on like this; for you life is just one big picnic!” SEE ALSO: Ants PDF IMAGES
109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Bankers, bones and beetles (Book); Cain X 3 (Book); Wilson, Edmund; Hellman, Geoffrey; Agee, James; Cain, James M.; Stafford, Jean; Fitzgerald, Robert; The collected short prose of James Agee (Book); The collected stories of Jean Stafford (Book); The Duke of Palermo and other plays, with an open letter to Mike Nichols (Book) PDF IMAGES
110	Performing arts/Review Films: Short takes By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Lahr, Bert; Ekland, Britt; Henry, Buck; Career as composer; Borgnine, Ernest; Aulin, Ewa; Green, Guy; Coburn, James; Robards, Jason; Fowles, John; Sturges, John; Wiseman, Joseph; Douglas, Kirk; Schifrin, Lalo; Carlino, Lewis John; Ritt, Martin; Motion pictures; Wisdom, Norman; McGoohan, Patrick; Performances; Burton, Richard; Hudson, Rock; Southern, Terry; The Magus (Book); Matthau, Walter; Friedkin, William PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Because you're a king, I'll tell you . . . the pastrami is better.” SEE ALSO: Waiters PDF IMAGES
112-113	Music in the round/Review The way they used to do musical comedy By Discus SEE ALSO: Anievas, Agustin; Coates, Alfred; Sills, Beverly; Ives, Charles; Chopin: 24 etudes (Sound recording); Chopin: Scherzos; Barcarolle; Prelude in C sharp minor (op. 45) (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Ives: Concord sonata (Sound recording); Kirkpatrick, John; London Symphony; Performances; Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto no. 3 in D minor (Sound recording); Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Horowitz, Vladimir PDF IMAGES
114	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 8: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES