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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 92 No. 26
Read the Cover StoryNATION
INTO THE DEPTHS OF SPACE
(The Nation)
A Six-Day Timetable (The Nation)
How Clifford Helped Reverse the War Policy (The Nation)
Temper Tantrums (The Nation / THE WAR)
Easing Into Power (The Nation / THE NEW ADMINISTRATION)
Old Faces and New (The Nation)
An Indictment of the War on Poverty By a Man Who Helped to Plan It (The Nation)
CITIES AND SUBURBS: MORE AND MORE, THE SAME PROBLEMS (The Nation)
The Girl in the Box (The Nation / CRIME)
Approaching a Disaster (The Nation / EPIDEMICS)
AN AMERICAN CONSCIENCE (The Nation)
WORLD
SOUTH AMERICA: ARMIES IN COMMAND
(The World)
Justifying the Crackdown (The World / BRAZIL)
An Easier Way (The World / GUYANA)
How Not to Supervise a Peace (The World / SOUTHEAST ASIA)
The New Strauss (The World / WEST GERMANY)
Static Defense (The World / RUSSIA)
One for the Boys (The World / BRITAIN)
Voting for Unity (The World / ZAMBIA)
SCIENCE
Clue to the Loch Ness Monster
(MARINE BIOLOGY) A Mystery Ticking Slower (ASTROPHYSICS)
PRESS
The Defeat of the Strikers
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
RELIGION
Rebellion in the Backyard
(ROMAN CATHOLICS) Magna Carta for Theology
Vanishing Colony (JEWS)
SPORT
The Pottawatomie Plowboy
(BOXING) Surprise Hotshots (BASKETBALL)
BUSINESS
The Economy in 1968: An Expansion That Would Not Quit
A New Boss for Big Steel (CORPORATIONS)
Getting Thin on Chocolate (COMMODITIES)
End of the Great Race (AIRLINES)
EDUCATION
The New Black Presidents
(COLLEGES) LAW
Caught in the Coop
(The Law / POLICE)
Kelley's Dance (The Law / PUBLIC DECENCY)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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(Time Listings / TELEVISION)
A Composer for All Seasons (But Especially for Christmas) (Music / COVER STORY)
NEW MAGIC IN ANIMATION (Art)
Elizabethan Greeks (The Theater / REPERTORY)
Play v. Players (The Theater / OFF BROADWAY)
Chug-Chug, Mug-Mug (Cinema / NEW MOVIES)
Dirty Old Men (Cinema)
Fighting Violence (Television / THE INDUSTRY)
Payday, Some Day (Television)
John Steinbeck, 1902-1968 (Books)
If Sex Were All (Books)
zzzzzzzz (Books)
The Willing Spirit (Books)
Facing It (Books)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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LETTERS
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