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December 1972

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	Photo [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Informers; Portraits; Veterans; Lemmer, William PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On This we remember, from September 1972: Letter By John Saar On Obituary for a housewife, from September 1972: Letter By Sandra Betts On Who's on silly mid-off?, from October 1972: Letter By Edward T. Engle On Art and artifice in network news, from October 1972: Letter By Jane Barlow On McGovern, the big tease, from October 1972: Letter By B. Elaine Thompson Letter By Ruth Sallada Letter By Nancy Hendriks Letter By Theodore N. Lewis Letter By Gerry Gibbons Letter By Anne T. Booher Letter By John Bright Letter By Tom M. Liston Letter By Bruce Campbell Letter By Patricia Wild On Your phone is a party line, from October 1972: Letter By Jerermiah S. Gutman On Public documents, from November 1972: Letter By Rogers C.B. Morton PDF IMAGES
10-16	The easy chair/Article Christmas list: A few hints for Hark By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Athens; Liggett, Barbara; Fischer, Bobby; Bumper stickers; Career as activist; Career as Connecticut state treasurer; Career in archaeology; Career in chess; Career in construction industry; Career in newspaper publishing; Career in restoration of railroads; Construction workers; Demonstrations; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Dragon by the tail (Book); Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Eskimo newspapers; Excavations (Archaeology); McAttee, Gordon; Rock, Howard; Davies, John Paton; Altemose, Leon; Jensen, Oliver Ormerod; Petroleum industry and trade; Berdon, Robert I.; Trade-unions; Voluntarism PDF IMAGES
18-30	Article The techniques of subtle erosion By Paul Bender SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Constitutional law; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES Collection The techniques of subtle erosion By Paul Bender PDF IMAGES
30-32	Article A Nixon court scorecard By Paul Bender SEE ALSO: Appointment of justices to U.S. Supreme Court; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
34-43	Article Ex-oracles By Daniel Lang SEE ALSO: Scientists PDF IMAGES
44-50	Diplomatic notes/Article Friendship with foreign devils By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman SEE ALSO: 1949-; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
53	Countersigns/Article The blue bird of happiness By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Optimism PDF IMAGES
54-65	Article The confession of an FBI informer By Frank J. Donner SEE ALSO: Career as FBI informer; Informers; Protest movements; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Veterans; Lemmer, William PDF IMAGES
66-68	Collection Lighter-than-aircraft PDF IMAGES Poem Identity problem in the Mammoth Caves By Willard R. Espy PDF IMAGES Poem On the occasion of Stanley Kauffmann's fiftieth birthday By Stanley Moss PDF IMAGES Poem Ode By Gerald Jonas PDF IMAGES Poem To a waterbed By John Updike PDF IMAGES
67	Poem Memento Mory's By L.E. Sissman PDF IMAGES Poem Bores By Howard Moss PDF IMAGES Poem Suicide note By Anthony Ostroff PDF IMAGES Poem Back to Africa By Erica Jong PDF IMAGES Poem Venice: A footnote By Howard Moss PDF IMAGES
68	Poem Poems By Michael Silverton PDF IMAGES Poem Ecology By X.J. Kennedy PDF IMAGES Poem Robert Frost discovers another road not taken By X.J. Kennedy PDF IMAGES Poem Suffix the little prefixes to come unto me (comparatively speaking) By Willard R. Espy PDF IMAGES
70-75	Article A candle for St. Greed's By Roger Rapoport SEE ALSO: Medical care PDF IMAGES
76-80	Article Eagletons wake By Stephen Darst SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1969-1974; Eagleton, Thomas F.; Vice-Presidential candidates PDF IMAGES
82	Fiction The sound of nothing By Bettie Jane Murray PDF IMAGES
84-100	Article Two of the missing By Perry Deane Young SEE ALSO: Career as news photographer; Career as war correspondent; Stone, Dana; News photographers; Young, Perry Deane; Press coverage; Flynn, Sean; Vietnam; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
102-103	Commentary/Article The bump of outrage By Robert Douglas Mead SEE ALSO: Phrenology PDF IMAGES
103	Commentary/Poem My cell of steel By O.C. (Chuck) Spicer PDF IMAGES
104-116	Books/Review To prove his toughness in Europe, Jack Kennedy went to war in Asia By James M. (James Maurice) Gavin SEE ALSO: Asia, Southeastern; Career as U.S. president—Book reviews; Halberstam, David; Diplomatic history; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; The best and the brightest (Book) PDF IMAGES
119-126	Books/Review New Philistines, true conservatives By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: College days in Earthquake County (Book); Wilner, Herbert; Litwak, Leo; Literature; Kampf, Louis; Lauter, Paul; Freire, Paulo; Pedagogy of the oppressed (Book); Radicalism; The politics of literature: dissenting essays on the teaching of English (Book) PDF IMAGES
124	Article A year of books PDF IMAGES
126	Notice Statement of ownership, management and circulation By Russell Barnard PDF IMAGES
127	The Harper's game/Department New Year's resolutions PDF IMAGES