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September 1972

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	Photo [Cover art] By Richard Kelly (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Empire State Building (New York, New York); Skywriting PDF IMAGES
4-14	Letters/Department Letters On Counterfeit news, from May 1972: Letter By Stanley W. Cloud Letter By Bucinator On Portugal tries to wake up, from July 1972: Letter By Bern Marcowitz Letter By John Fischer On The dangers of early schooling, from July 1972: Letter By Linanne Sackett Letter By Dorothy Israel Letter By Inez King Letter By Sally Johnson Letter By Bruce R. Joyce Letter By Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Winter PDF IMAGES
16-22	Article Letter from Rio By Richard J. Barnet SEE ALSO: Brazil; Dictatorship PDF IMAGES
26-32	Games some people play/Article Man in Vibram soles By Jack Hope SEE ALSO: Career as hiker; Hiking; Hope, Jack PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article The paranoia market By John Stickney SEE ALSO: Security consultants; Security systems PDF IMAGES
40-44	Performing arts/Article Woodstock was By Peter Moscoso-Gongora SEE ALSO: Rock music; Rock musicians; Sound recording industry; Woodstock PDF IMAGES
44	Poem Kin By Jean Valentine PDF IMAGES Poem My life with Eve By James L. Kugel PDF IMAGES
47	Countersigns/Article An antidote for despair By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES Countersigns/Article In praise of inefficient government By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Celler, Emanuel; Government productivity; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
48-62	Article The individual as institution By William Irwin Thompson SEE ALSO: City planning; Individualism; Illich, Ivan; Soleri, Paolo; Political and social views; Power (Social sciences); Social institutions PDF IMAGES
63-65	Article Improvisation on a fashionable theme By Calvin Trillin SEE ALSO: Feminism; Men; Sex role PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article Hitching nowhere: The aging young on the endless road By Gwyneth Cravens SEE ALSO: Hippies; Hitchhiking; Youth PDF IMAGES
72-78	Article This we remember By John G. (John Godfrey) Morris SEE ALSO: Photojournalism; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
81-88	Article The curious case of the indicted meat inspectors By Peter H. Schuck SEE ALSO: Bribery; Corrupt practices; Discipline; Wywiorski, Ed; Meat inspection; Packing-houses; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Dept. of Agriculture PDF IMAGES
90	Commentary/Article Obituary for a housewife By Mildred Kavanaugh SEE ALSO: Housewives; Obituaries PDF IMAGES Commentary/Article Thoughts on paper By Robert Bullen SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Paper industry; Recycling; Waste paper PDF IMAGES
91	Commentary/Article Now that the ocelot's gone . . . By Nancy McArthur SEE ALSO: Fur trade; Rats PDF IMAGES
92-94	Commentary/Article Lines of least resistance: A case against busing By Curtis M. Graves SEE ALSO: Busing for school integration; School integration PDF IMAGES
95	The Harper's game/Department Culture vultures By Anthony Hayden-Guest PDF IMAGES
96-104	Article Horatio Alger in the White House By Richard Poirier SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Psychology; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
105-107	Books/Review The last true samurai By Donald Richie SEE ALSO: Spring snow (Book); Mishima, Yukio PDF IMAGES
108-110	Books/Review Tolstoy was wrong By Stefan Kanfer SEE ALSO: A child called Noah (Book); Greenfeld, Josh PDF IMAGES