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February 1981

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Sam Varnedoe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flags PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Through history with Henry A. Kissinger, from November 1980: Letter By Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cromer Letter By William Shawcross On Coming to terms with Vietnam, from December 1980: Letter By Alan Williamson Letter By Kermit Lindberg Letter By Jr. and H.G. Summers Letter By Jonathan Myer Letter By Mike Lavelle Letter By Jill Rodewald Letter By Greg Gianas Letter By Sam Rankin Letter By Earl E. Eigabrodt Letter By Jeanne Morgan Letter By Rev. C. Lynn Bethel Letter By Peter Marin PDF IMAGES
11-13	The easy chair/Article Gifts of the Magi: Sophism, napalm and gold By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Civil service; Inauguration PDF IMAGES
14-21	Article The great transportation conspiracy: A juggernaut named desire By Jonathan Kwitny SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; General Motors Corporation; Industrial concentration; Ownership; Trials, litigation, etc.; Urban transportation; Urban transportation policy PDF IMAGES
22-24	Washington/Article Mad strategies: McNamara's wars By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career in government; Military policy; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
26-29	Article The color of education: Racial policy in the classroom By Fred Reed SEE ALSO: African American students; African American teachers; Discrimination in education; Education, Urban; Training of PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article Hard-money men: Investing in survival By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Effect of inflation on; Investments; 1971-1981 PDF IMAGES
41-55	Article Russian disorders: The sick man of Europe By George Feifer SEE ALSO: Alcoholism; 1970-1991; 1975-1985 PDF IMAGES
56-57	The public record/Article The public record By Arthur I. Blaustein SEE ALSO: 1971-1981; 1980-1993; Records and correspondence; Social policy; Subsistence economy PDF IMAGES
58	Ars politica/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Inauguration; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
59-69	Fiction Orphans By Marilynne Robinson SEE ALSO: Minnesota; Orphans PDF IMAGES
70	In our time/Article Political science By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Collars; Costume PDF IMAGES
71-74	Books/Review Colonial lexicon: Redefining “Oxford” By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Ehrlich, Eugene H.; Lexicography; Oxford American dictionary (Book) PDF IMAGES
75-77	Books/Review Monumental trivialist: A Rutgers Fitzgerald By Seymour Krim SEE ALSO: Biography; MacShane, Frank; O'Hara, John; Novelists, American; The life of John O'Hara (Book) PDF IMAGES
78-79	In print/Review The forgotten James: The sister of her brothers By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: James, Alice; Alice James, a biography (Book); Family; Family relationships; James, Henry; Strouse, Jean; Novelists, American; Philosophers; James, William PDF IMAGES
80-83	The fourth estate/Article Blood and ink: Keeping score in El Salvador By Alexander Cockburn SEE ALSO: El Salvador; Latin America; 1977-1981; 1979-1992; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
84-87	Revisions/Article Kill the umpire: Adam Smith versus business By William Tucker SEE ALSO: Smith, Adam; An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Book); Free enterprise; Free trade; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
88-93	American miscellany/Article Hotel California: Time out in Beverly Hills By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison SEE ALSO: Beverly Hills; Celebrities PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Vicious circles By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES