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October 1972

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	Photo [Cover art] By Terry Stevenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Back PDF IMAGES
4-14	Letters/Department Letters On Bicentennial blues, from July 1972: Letter By Robert D. Watkins Letter By James W. Seymore Jr. Letter By Anthony E. Neville On Flowers of evil, from July 1972: Letter By W.E. Colby Letter By Alfred W. McCoy On Love on trial, from July 1972: Letter By Joe Gilchrist Letter By Garry Wills On A soldier's disgust, from July 1972: Letter By Winant Sidle On The invisible army, from August 1972: Letter By Phil Lange Letter By Gene Cudworth On In praise of trains, from August 1972: Letter By Theodore W. Kheel Letter By Louis J. Lefkowitz Letter By E.L. Tennyson On Tea and ideology, from August 1972: Letter By Martin F. Klingenberg Letter By Edward Neilan and Charles R. (Charles Richard) Smith On A modest proposal, from August 1972: Letter By Jacob K. Javits On Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the epic tradition, from August 1972: Letter By E. Whealdon On August 1914, from August 1972: Letter By E. Whealdon PDF IMAGES
16-24	The easy chair/Article An eye-opening experience By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Eye; Health; Fischer, John; Surgery PDF IMAGES
28-38	Games some people play/Article Who's on silly mid-off? By Robert H. Pilpel SEE ALSO: Career as cricket player; Cricket; Pilpel, Robert H.; Rome PDF IMAGES
40-47	Article Art and artifice in network news By Daniel Menaker SEE ALSO: Reasoner, Harry; Chancellor, John; Portraits; Television broadcasting of news; Television news anchors; Cronkite, Walter PDF IMAGES
48-52	Performing arts/Article Where I'm at now By Don Asher and Hampton Hawes SEE ALSO: African American musicians; Biography; Hawes, Hampton; Jazz musicians; Portraits PDF IMAGES
55	Countersigns/Article In defense of forgetting the POW's By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
56-71	Article McGovern, the big tease By Germaine Greer SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; The Democratic Party; Feminism; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley) PDF IMAGES
74-77	Article The subculture spawned by electronic warfare By Orville Schell SEE ALSO: Defense industries; Electronics in military engineering PDF IMAGES
79-96	Fiction Perseid By John Barth PDF IMAGES
98-104	Article The Vernon Schiller farm By Wayne Rindels SEE ALSO: Career as farmer; Family farms; Farm life; Iowa; Schiller, Vernon PDF IMAGES
105	Article The Quayle papers By Lincoln Kinnear Barnett SEE ALSO: Career in public opinion polling; Quayle, Oliver; Public opinion polls PDF IMAGES
106-114	Article Your phone is a party line By Ira Glasser and Herman Schwartz SEE ALSO: Electronic surveillance; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES
116-118	Commentary/Article The agency's brief By William Egan Colby SEE ALSO: Laos; Opium trade; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES Commentary/Collection Commentary Commentary PDF IMAGES Commentary/Article Commentary Commentary By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
118-120	Commentary/Article The author's response By Alfred W. McCoy SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Laos; Opium trade; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
120-121	Commentary/Article Eyewitness testimony By Ronald J. Rickenbach SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Laos; Opium trade; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
122-126	Books/Review A reformed masochist writes a sunlit children's classic By Selma G. Lanes SEE ALSO: Children's literature, American; Dominic (Book); Steig, William PDF IMAGES
128-133	Books/Review Conversations, indiscretions, autobiography By Donald Junkins SEE ALSO: Frost: a time to talk (Book); Poets, American; Francis, Robert; Frost, Robert; The trouble with Francis: an autobiography (Book) PDF IMAGES
133	Poem Dog-day night By Robert Francis PDF IMAGES Poem New England mind By Robert Francis PDF IMAGES
134	Poem Love is not a feeling By John Hollander PDF IMAGES
135	Poem Giraffe By Thomas Williams PDF IMAGES Poem The ice fisherman By Thomas Williams PDF IMAGES
136	The Harper's game/Department The polimerick By W.D. Lewis PDF IMAGES