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October 1976

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	Photo [Cover art] By Terry Stevenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Jeans (Clothing) PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The Wizard of Oz, from August 1976: Letter By Pamella Hays Letter By Donald C. Dawkins Letter By Walter E. Hoskin Letter By R.J. Needles On Ancient enemies, from August 1976: Letter By Howard P. Kainz On Wolf kill, from August 1976: Letter By Paul D. Harwood On Arrest on suspicion of courage, from August 1976: Letter By R.G. Poppelsdorff On At large in East Africa, from August 1976: Letter By Lyndon Harries PDF IMAGES
8	Poem Golden gate prothalamion By Laurel Blossom PDF IMAGES Poem Accident By Paul Lamar PDF IMAGES
10-12	The easy chair/Article Random numbers By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: -Statistics PDF IMAGES
16-19	Article The essential reform By David Lebedoff SEE ALSO: Apportionment (Election law); Election districts; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
20-21	Article Ethical aptitude test By Leonard C. Lewin SEE ALSO: Ethics; Examinations PDF IMAGES
22-30	Article Roman spring By Erazim V. Kohák SEE ALSO: Communist parties; Elections; 1945-1976 PDF IMAGES
32-35	Article Calling to the yahoo By Victor Gold SEE ALSO: Federal aid to research; Research grants; Views on waste in government spending; Waste in government spending; William Proxmire PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article A plague of lawyers By Jerold S. Auerbach SEE ALSO: Law; Practice of law; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
45-64	Fiction California blue By Joan Didion PDF IMAGES
66-67	Collection Seventeen self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Calvin Trillin SEE ALSO: Trillin, Calvin; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Robert Penn Warren SEE ALSO: Warren, Robert Penn; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Plimpton, George; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Mordecai Richler SEE ALSO: Richler, Mordecai; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By John Gardner SEE ALSO: John Gardner; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Theroux, Paul; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Stone, Robert; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alison Lurie SEE ALSO: Lurie, Alison; Self-portraits; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Calvin Trillin SEE ALSO: Trillin, Calvin; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Robert Penn Warren SEE ALSO: Warren, Robert Penn; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Plimpton, George; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Mordecai Richler SEE ALSO: Richler, Mordecai; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By John Gardner SEE ALSO: John Gardner; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Theroux, Paul; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Stone, Robert; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alison Lurie SEE ALSO: Lurie, Alison; Self-portraits; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
67	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alan Harrington SEE ALSO: Harrington, Alan; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Anthony Burgess SEE ALSO: Burgess, Anthony; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By William Gaddis SEE ALSO: Self-portraits; Gaddis, William PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Gail Godwin SEE ALSO: Godwin, Gail; Self-portraits; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Richardson, Jack; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Evan S. Connell SEE ALSO: Connell, Evan S.; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Nadine Gordimer SEE ALSO: Gordimer, Nadine; Self-portraits; Women authors, South African PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Self-portraits; Wolfe, Tom PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alan Harrington SEE ALSO: Harrington, Alan; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Anthony Burgess SEE ALSO: Burgess, Anthony; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By William Gaddis SEE ALSO: Self-portraits; Gaddis, William PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Gail Godwin SEE ALSO: Godwin, Gail; Self-portraits; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Richardson, Jack; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Evan S. Connell SEE ALSO: Connell, Evan S.; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Nadine Gordimer SEE ALSO: Gordimer, Nadine; Self-portraits; Women authors, South African PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Self-portraits; Wolfe, Tom PDF IMAGES
68-79	Article Two cheers for socialism By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Central planning; 1971-1981 PDF IMAGES
76-107	Article Indoor greenery SEE ALSO: Botanical illustration; Plants; Publishing PDF IMAGES
80-84	Article My lives By Michael Holroyd SEE ALSO: Biographers; Career as biographer; Holroyd, Michael PDF IMAGES
88-91	Books/Review The mother of us all By Margaret Mead SEE ALSO: Alone of all her sex: the myth and cult of the Virgin Mary (Book); Catholic Church; Cult; Warner, Marina; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint PDF IMAGES
92-94	Books/Review Heavy weather By Ella Leffland SEE ALSO: A sea-change (Book); Gould, Lois PDF IMAGES
97-100	Books/Review Systems of belief By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Solzheniëtìsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich; Loebl, Eugen; Europe, Eastern; Ideology; Mihajlov, Mihajlo; My mind on trial (Book); Underground notes (Book); Warning to the West (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-101	Books in brief/Review Five novels By Thomas R. Edwards SEE ALSO: Bear (Book); Flight to Canada (Book); Reed, Ishmael; Engel, Marian; Kingston, Maxine Hong; Fox, Paula; Brautigan, Richard; Sombrero fallout: a Japanese novel (Book); The widow's children (Book); The woman warrior (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-103	The fourth estate/Article Chinese boxes By Frank Mankiewicz and Joel L. Swerdlow SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting of news; Television in politics PDF IMAGES
104	Poem Monarchs in the field By Annie Dillard PDF IMAGES
108	Puzzle/Department Playfair square By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES