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May 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Brad Holland SEE ALSO: Travelers PDF IMAGES
1-20	Advertising Supplement The art of travel: Harper's 1986 international travel planner By Teague Jackson PDF IMAGES
4-71	Letters/Department Letters On Even the bad guys wear white hats, from January 1986: Letter By Ralph Beer Letter By Georgia Jones Letter By Bud Eppers Letter By Governor Ed Herschler Letter By Sid Goodloe Letter By Robert A. Jaynes Letter By Edward Abbey PDF IMAGES
8-9	Notebook/Article Nuclear etiquette By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conversation; Etiquette; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear weapons PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Is arms control really necessary? By Michael Eliot Howard SEE ALSO: Arms control; Disarmament; Military readiness; Security, International PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Douglas Curran (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Taylor, Granger; Homes and haunts—Pictorial works; Space ships PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Save Madonna SEE ALSO: Humor; Madonna; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear-weapon-free zones PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Contra manual: The sequel SEE ALSO: Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense; Guerrillas; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Nicaragua PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article 30 seconds over Congress SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Central America; 1981-1989; Press, Political party; Television in politics PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Great dictator toasts, vol. III By Robert Schweitzer SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Chile; 1973-1988; Schweitzer, Robert; Speeches PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article Curbing hostile takeovers By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Consolidation and merger of corporations; 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Gentle Britain no more By Hanif Kureishi SEE ALSO: Children of immigrants; National characteristics, British; Racism PDF IMAGES
23-27	Readings/Article A Jew in West Germany By Jean Steinberg (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Germany (West); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo As the earth breathes SEE ALSO: Earth; Light absorption; Remote-sensing images PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Depicting the wind By James W. Wilson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Remote-sensing images PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article The anxious gardener By V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul SEE ALSO: Gardeners; Gardening; Knowledge—Gardening; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article The Tao of baseball By Peter Gardella SEE ALSO: Baseball PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The golden age of how-to SEE ALSO: Egypt; Sources PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Education of an epicure By A.J. (Abbott Joseph) Liebling SEE ALSO: Gastronomy; Gourmets PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Collection Readings By R. Crumb PDF IMAGES Readings/Drama Wired By Eric Bogosian PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Ted Gossett of Ted Gossett's String Band By R. Crumb SEE ALSO: Portraits; Gossett, Ted PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Leake County Revelers By R. Crumb PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article New England decorum By Marilynne Robinson SEE ALSO: Architecture PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Humility By Fred Chappell PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Article The last drive-in picture show By Ellen Ditzler Meloy SEE ALSO: Drive-in theaters; Motion picture audiences PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Mistake By Russell Banks PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Illustration In retrospect By Jasper Johns SEE ALSO: Illustrations; Stevens, Wallace PDF IMAGES
39-48	Article The Star Wars swindle: Hawking nuclear snake oil By Fred Reed SEE ALSO: Military policy; 1981-1989; Strategic Defense Initiative PDF IMAGES
49-57	Article Anthropology's native problems: Revisionism in the field By Louis Arnorsson Sass SEE ALSO: Anthropology; Ethnology; Field work; Methodology PDF IMAGES
58-61	Article A hard speech to stomach: Yevtushenko's recipe for Soviet freedom By Vasiliæi Pavlovich Aksenov SEE ALSO: Political and social views; Speeches; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich PDF IMAGES
62-68	Article The moral necessity of metaphor: Rooting history in a figure of speech By Cynthia Ozick SEE ALSO: Ethics; Metaphor PDF IMAGES
69-70	Article You are what you watch: A status-conscious guide to personal programming By Larry Tritten SEE ALSO: Life style; Social status; Television programs; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
73	Double acrostic/Department No. 41 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
76	Puzzle/Department Double entry By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES