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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. LXXXI No. 19
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Looking Up All Over
(The Nation / THE ECONOMY)
A Most Important Marriage (The Nation / REPUBLICANS)
Guest of Honor (The Nation)
Something in Common (The Nation / THE PRESIDENCY)
The Hero & the Hush-Up (The Nation / ARMED FORCES)
Legal Lottery (The Nation / NEW HAMPSHIRE)
In Bill Moore's Footsteps (The Nation / THE SOUTH)
Dogs, Kids & Clubs (The Nation)
LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA (The Nation)
WORLD
Between Left & Right
(The World / ITALY)
Surgery Before Diagnosis? (The World / GREAT BRITAIN)
New Successor for K.? (The World / RUSSIA)
The Other Beard (The World)
A Jolly Nice Chap (The World / EUROPE)
Talking to Tito (The World / YUGOSLAVIA)
Liberte, Egalite--Mais Verite? (The World / FRANCE)
Shifting Fortunes (The World / MIDDLE EAST)
Another Job for the U.N. (The World / YEMEN)
Dispensing with Judges (The World / SOUTH AFRICA)
The Cops Protest (The World / THE CONGO)
Brother Takes Over (The World / WEST IRIAN)
The Great Leap Overboard (The World / RED CHINA)
Arranging Things (The World / TOGO)
Hooch in the Hold (The World / CEYLON)
Worst of Neighbors (The Hemisphere / HISPANIOLA)
With a Confident Air (The Hemisphere / CANADA)
SCIENCE
Bottled Star
(NAVIGATION) Embattled Elms (CONSERVATION)
Spare That Channel (RADIO ASTRONOMY)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
How Not to Die Of Pneumonia
(Medicine / IMMUNIZATION)
How Not to Die Of Cancer (Medicine / SURGERY)
SOCIETY
The Snows of Spring
(Modern Living / RECREATION)
A Chaos of Clocks (Modern Living / CUSTOMS)
The Vreeland Vogue (Modern Living / FASHION)
PRESS
Sex, Sensation & Significance
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
Small Town in the Big Town (The Press / COLUMNISTS)
RELIGION
The Gentle Demurrers
(PROTESTANTS) Counting the Flock (ROMAN CATHOLICS)
Seven Devilish Ways To Block Church Union (ECUMENICISM)
SPORT
A Big Day for Optimists
(HORSE RACING) Hurrah for Homebodies (TRACK & FIELD)
Up to the Gods (MOUNTAIN CLIMBING)
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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(Time At 40)
BUSINESS
V.P. for the Future
(U.S. Business / TRENDS)
Tooling Up (U.S. Business / INDUSTRY)
The Big Test (U.S. Business / AUTOS)
Buying Off the Commuters (U.S. Business / RAILROADS)
Celebrated Hermit (U.S. Business / AVIATION)
Test-Tube Forests (U.S. Business / CORPORATIONS)
Endangered Miracle (World Business / WEST GERMANY)
Modern Medici (World Business / MEXICO)
A Place to Make Money (World Business / ISRAEL)
The Cow & The Tractor (World Business / INDIA)
EDUCATION
What, Where, When, How?
(ACADEMIC FREEDOM) "We Want Teachers Who Are Educated"
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
CINEMA
(Time Listings)
That's All Right (Music / SINGERS)
Not Quite It (Music / BALLET)
Before Your Very Eyes (Art)
A Firm Sense of Role (Show Business / ACTRESSES)
Real Gone (Show Business / THEATER ABROAD)
Closed End (Show Business / TELEVISION)
Blob Psychology (Cinema)
Minus Ambiguity (Cinema)
India for Everybody (Cinema)
The Dark & Light of Dreams (Books)
The Taming of the House (Books)
In the Good Old Mothertime (Books)
Deep Mist & Shallow Water (Books)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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LETTERS
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