In this issue
Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 93 No. 2
Read the Cover StoryCOVER
THE ASCENT OF TED KENNEDY
(Cover Story / COVER STORY)
The Vote: A Personal Matter (Cover Story)
NATION
UPHEAVAL ON THE HILL
(The Nation)
Back to the Fold (The Nation)
No. 2 Men (The Nation / THE NEW ADMINISTRATION)
Heroes or Survivors? (The Nation / ARMED FORCES)
Welcome Home (The Nation / THE PRESIDENT-ELECT)
The Key Compound (The Nation)
The Other Half of the Battle (The Nation / RACES)
WORLD
THE RISKS OF REPRISAL
(The World)
In Defense of Israel (The World)
CUBA: TEN YEARS OF CASTRO (The World)
Shifting Symbols (The World / CZECHOSLOVAKIA)
Freedom for Three (The World / THE WAR)
Life with Charlie (The World)
The Wife Tells All (The World / JAPAN)
SCIENCE
Triumphant Return from the Void
HEALTH & MEDICINE
To Save the Heart: Diet by Decree?
(Medicine)
SOCIETY
Exploring a Shadow World
(Behavior / SOCIOLOGY)
Left in a Right-Handed World (Behavior / CHARACTERISTICS)
PRESS
The World's Elite
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
Beyond Bang-Bang Bulletins (The Press / WIRE SERVICES)
RELIGION
A New Starting Point
(THEOLOGY) Clouded Future (ROMAN CATHOLICS)
SPORT
The New Champ
(FOOTBALL) 6-3-3 Defense
Boy from Trinidad Junior (BASKETBALL)
BUSINESS
THE NEW ATTACK ON KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
The Rally That Wasn't (STOCK MARKET)
Beating the Tax Bite
Is This Any Way to Buy an Airline? (AVIATION)
The Unlucky Queen (SHIPPING)
EDUCATION
Telling All to a Computer
(ADMISSIONS) A Most Modern Squabble (PROFESSORS)
LAW
A Year Without Executions
(The Law / CAPITAL PUNISHMENT)
On the Spot in the Spotlight (The Law / JUDGES)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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(Time Listings / TELEVISION)
Read the story (Television / NEWSCASTING)
Documentary as Art (Television / PROGRAMMING)
Farewell to the Budapest (Music / CHAMBER MUSIC)
Blues Boy (Music / SINGERS)
Elegy for Lorraine (The Theater / OFF BROADWAY)
The Top Ten (The Theater / RECORDINGS)
Carnival of Grotesques (Art / SCULPTURE)
The Great Romantic (Art / PAINTING)
Black Is Golden (Cinema / THE TRADE)
Depth Bomb (Cinema)
Fascination with the Deviate (Cinema / NEW MOVIES)
Heroic Despair (Cinema)
Generation on Trial (Books / Generation on Trial)
Drang nach Osten (Books / Drang nach Osten)
Himself Surprised (Books)
A Taist of Frekles (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
THE CASE FOR A VOLUNTEER ARMY

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