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August 1960

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Emblems, National PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On How to rescue New York from its Port Authority, from June 1960: Note/correction Note/correction On The Procal, from May 1960: Letter By Cynthia Lindsay On The new Africa, from May 1960: Letter By Mrs. Earl F. Myers On Death of a giant, from June 1960: Letter By Stanley Frankel Letter By Robert K. Farrand On The Negro revolt against “the Negro leaders”, from June 1960: Letter By Mrs. Walter A Snow Letter By Henry Lee Moon Letter By Louis E. Lomax PDF IMAGES
14-22	The easy chair/Article The double image of American business abroad SEE ALSO: Corporations, American; Foreign public opinion, Latin American; Investments, American; Latin America PDF IMAGES
23-24	After hours/Article Monocle By Marvin Kitman SEE ALSO: College student newspapers and periodicals; Monocle (American periodical); New Haven; Periodicals, Publishing of; Political satire, American PDF IMAGES
24-27	After hours/Article Caveat scriptor By Ethel Reed Strainchamps SEE ALSO: Language purism; Usage PDF IMAGES
26	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
29-37	Article Christ under communism: An eyewitness report on the churches in Eastern Europe By Milton Sanford Mayer SEE ALSO: Communism and Christianity; Europe, Eastern PDF IMAGES
37	Poem For a senior college textbook By Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Eva Hesse (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
38-47	Article The year St. Louis enchanted the world (the second of two articles) By George Ross Leighton SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Saint Louis (Mo.) PDF IMAGES
48-53	Article The revolution in small plane flying By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Air travel; Airplanes; Piloting; Private planes PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article “I'd love to help you out” By A.R. Godsil SEE ALSO: Job hunting; Résumés (Employment) PDF IMAGES
56-64	Article America the expendable By Charlton Ogburn SEE ALSO: Popular culture; Progress PDF IMAGES
64	Article The father of American conservatism By Alexander Hamilton SEE ALSO: Louisiana Purchase; Territorial expansion PDF IMAGES
65-74	Fiction Early sin in the early 'thirties: A story By Victor Wolfson PDF IMAGES
75	Article Telephonic mnemonic By Felicia Lamport SEE ALSO: Mnemonics; Telephone PDF IMAGES
76-81	Article Politics for a new generation: Part III By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Executive power; 1961-1963; Political leadership PDF IMAGES
81	Poem Thrombosis: A pastoral elegy in business phrases By Donald Hall PDF IMAGES
82-90	Article How good is TV at its best? (the first of two articles) By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Documentary television programs; Television broadcasting of news; Television broadcasting policy; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
91-95	Public and personal/Article The long retreat By William Smith White SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
96-100	The new books/Review Wright Morris, Thomas Wolfe, and four novels By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A house full of women (Book); Ceremony in Lone Tree (Book); Nowell, Elizabeth; Markandaya, Kamala; Goran, Lester; Eiseley, Loren C.; Spark, Muriel; McFarland, Philip James; The ballad of Peckham Rye (Book); The firmament of time (Book); The paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue (Book); The silence of desire (Book); Thomas Wolfe, a biography (Book); Morris, Wright PDF IMAGES
101-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A casebook on Henry James's “The Turn of the Screw” (Book); A primer of Ezra Pound (Book); Enjoy, enjoy (Book); Household, Geoffrey; Willen, Gerald; Gideon's risk (Book); Harper Lee; Golden, Harry; Truman, Harry S.; Marric, J.J.; Fischer, John; Gunther, John; Rosenthal, M.L. (Macha Louis); Margaret Halsey; Mr. Citizen (Book); Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Silvers, Robert B.; Taken at the flood: the story of Albert D. Lasker (Book); The challenges we face (Book); This demi-paradise: a Westchester diary (Book); To kill a mockingbird (Book); Watcher in the shadows (Book); Writing in America (Book) PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Goudge, Elizabeth; Keyes, Frances Parkinson; Murchie, Guy; Kantor, MacKinlay; Music of the spheres (Book); Monsarrat, Nicholas; Roses in December (Book); Spirit Lake (Book); Taylor Caldwell; The dean's watch (Book); The listeners (Book); The nylon pirates (Book); The waste makers (Book); Packard, Vance Oakley PDF IMAGES
103-104	Music in the round/Review Too much too fast? By Discus SEE ALSO: Valletti, Cesare; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Wächter, Eberhard; Häfliger, Ernst; Schubert, Franz; Hotter, Hans; Wolf, Hugo; Seefried, Irmgard; Taubmann, Leo; Performances; Schumann, Robert; Schöne Müllerin (Book); Schumann: Dichterliebe (Book); Wolf: Italianisches liederbuch (Book); Wolf: Spanisches liederbuch (Book) PDF IMAGES
104	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Bach: Cantata arias (Sound recording); Berlin Philharmonic; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Forster, Karl; Schoeck, Othmar; Performances; Schoeck: Songs (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Dixie By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Cary, Dick; Lewis, George; Jazz; McPartland, Jimmy; 1951-1960; Performances; Gifford, Walt PDF IMAGES