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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 88 No. 15
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The Turning Point
(The Nation / POLITICS)
Ronald for Real (The Nation / CALIFORNIA)
Rocky Redivivus (The Nation / NEW YORK)
A Whitewashed Court (The Nation / ALABAMA)
The Two-Party Party (The Nation / TEXAS)
Herald of the Dream (The Nation / THE SOUTH)
Charley, My Boy? (The Nation / THE WHITE HOUSE)
WORLD
New Moves & Old Intransigence
(The World / DIPLOMACY)
The Rockpile (The World / SOUTH VIET NAM)
The Politicking Begins (The World)
Sun God's Anniversary (The World / RED CHINA)
The New Manifesto (The World / INDIA)
"Man Must Whack" (The World / NIGERIA)
Two New Nations (The World / AFRICA)
The Making of a President-Elect (The World / BRAZIL)
The Falkland Caper (The World / ARGENTINA)
SCIENCE
Paving the Way For More Food
(AGRONOMY) Fighting Guerrillas from the Lab (RESEARCH)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Predicting Sex
(Medicine / OBSTETRICS)
An Advantage of Pregnancy? (Medicine)
The Machines of Progress (Medicine / INSTRUMENTATION)
PRESS
Thomson Takes the Times
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
Mr. Krock Retires (The Press)
What's in a Loophole? (The Press / PUBLISHING)
RELIGION
Toward Government by Synod
(ANGLICANS) Beyond the New Orthodoxy (EPISCOPALIANS)
SPORT
The Pretenders
(BASEBALL) They're Only No. 2 (COLLEGE FOOTBALL)
Another One for the Irish
BUSINESS
Pressures of Viet Nam
(U.S. Business / THE ECONOMY)
Boeing's New Version (U.S. Business / AVIATION)
Watch the Yellow Birdie (U.S. Business / AIRLINES)
Buyers' Market (U.S. Business / AUTOS)
The Ruler of Greeley Square (U.S. Business / RETAILING)
Man of the Future (U.S. Business / EXECUTIVES)
As Good as Gold (World Business / ECONOMICS)
Honda's New Wheels (World Business / JAPAN)
Leaky Dikes (World Business / THE NETHERLANDS)
EDUCATION
Doubts & the Divinity School
(UNIVERSITIES) Mother of Childhood Schooling (TEACHING)
LAW
Cruel & Unusual Punishment
(The Law / PRISONS)
Free Press & Fair Trial (The Law / THE A.B.A.)
No One to Sue (The Law / LIABILITY)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
(Time Listings)
Something to Go Home To (Music / SINGERS)
Flying the Coop (Music / ORCHESTRAS)
Going Like Sixty (Music / THE MARKET)
Hellzapoppin, Roman Style (Show Business / SPECTACLES)
Return of the Wizard (Show Business / TELEVISION)
Colonel Bogey's March (Show Business)
Cliffhcmger on Madison Avenue (Art / MUSEUMS)
Welding Their Way Up (Art / SCULPTURE)
Unpalatable (The Theater)
John & the Whale (Cinema)
Horatio Algeria (Cinema)
A Great Bad Director (Cinema)
Going over 70 (Cinema)
The Double Agent (Books)
The Case That Had Everything (Books)
Snob's Folly (Books)
Don't Stir (Books)
Short Notices (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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ESSAY
POP-PSYCH, or, "Doc, I'm Fed Up with These Boring Figures'
(Time Essay)

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