The Press: MAGAZINES

Ramparts Dropout

For its December issue, Ramparts magazine has put some fire on its cover, but what's burning is not exactly yule logs. Three Ramparts editors and the art director are holding aloft their burning draft cards in a kind of New Left salute. Inside, Editor Warren Hinckle III writes: "If you're looking for an editorial in the usual place this month, forget it. It's on the cover."*

Not all of the old hands are joining in Ramparts salutes these days. Conspicuously absent is Principal Stockholder and onetime Publisher Edward Keating, who...