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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 83 No. 16
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Pleading Beyond Reason?
(The Nation / THE PRESIDENCY)
Life in the Salt Mine (The Nation)
Aerial Assassination? (The Nation)
Yes, My Darling Daughters (The Nation)
A Falling-Off Among Friends (The Nation / THE CONGRESS)
We Are Dedicated (The Nation / CIVIL RIGHTS)
In the Privacy of the Booth (The Nation)
What Wisconsin Mean (The Nation / ELECTIONS)
He Didn't Say Yes But He Didn't Say No (The Nation / REPUBLICANS)
MORE (The Nation)
A Lesson for Sunland (The Nation / ARMED FORCES)
GENERAL ADAMS: TOUGHEST OF THE TOUGH (The Nation)
Threnody & Thunder (The Nation / HEROES)
WORLD
How to Slice the Cake
(The World / COMMUNISTS)
Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka? (The World)
Grey to Black for the Tories (The World / GREAT BRITAIN)
Enmity or Enosis (The World / CYPRUS)
Physician, See Thyself (The World / BELGIUM)
The Headstrong Princess (The World / THE NETHERLANDS)
African Cuba? (The World / ZANZIBAR)
The Thorn Tree (The World / SOUTH AFRICA)
Another Atoll Heard From (The World / THE MALDIVES)
Death in the Delta, Intrigue in the Cafes (The World / SOUTH VIET NAM)
Toward Profound Change (The Hemisphere / BRAZIL)
The Crucial Choice (The Hemisphere / CHILE)
SCIENCE
Do-All Thinkmachine
(COMPUTERS) Venus Revisited (ASTRONOMY)
Kindergarten Gemini (SPACE)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
It Is Less "Hazardous"
(Medicine / SMOKING)
O.K. for Contacts (Medicine / OPHTHALMOLOGY)
SOCIETY
Triple Slither
(Modern Living / TRAVEL)
Co-ops & Condominiums (Modern Living / THE APARTMENT)
Singing? Hardly (Modern Living / FASHION)
PRESS
Evening the Score
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
Navel-Gazing in Wasteland (The Press)
Hitler's Paper Yoke (The Press)
RELIGION
On the Hem of Hell
(THEOLOGY) Russian Anti-Semitism (JUDAISM)
SPORT
V for Victory
(POWERBOAT RACING) Who Won (SCOREBOARD)
BUSINESS
Ford's Young One
(U.S. Business / AUTOS)
The Price-Fixing Charges (U.S. Business / STEEL)
Restraint on the Floor (U.S. Business / WALL STREET)
The Destiny of Dynasties (World Business / ITALY)
Onions, Frogs & Corpses (World Business / IRON CURTAIN)
EDUCATION
New Haven, Safe Haven
(UNIVERSITIES) LAW
Cool on Contempt
(The Law / THE SUPREME COURT)
A Defense & an Explanation (The Law)
Shoofly Pye (The Law / THE BENCH)
From Court to Cell? (The Law)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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(Time Listings)
Prince of Thought (The Theater)
Houseghost (The Theater)
"That Civilized Man" (Music / PIANISTS)
Back from the Dark Side (Music / JAZZ)
Embarrassment of Riches (Music / ORCHESTRAS)
The Party's Over (Art)
Instead of Paughtraits (Art)
A Child of Mother Harlem (Cinema)
Crux at a Carnival (Cinema)
Existential Momism (Cinema)
Has Skis, Needs Lift (Cinema)
Flame-Out (Cinema)
Sick Joke (Books)
Along Brandywine Creek (Books)
One Crummy Culture (Books)
Tenses of the Truth (Books)
Read the Book? Now . . . (Books)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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