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January 1961

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Walter C. Whitlock SEE ALSO: Moon; Night PDF IMAGES Student study guide/Article Student study guide By Leo Hamalian and Edmond Loris Volpe SEE ALSO: Current events; Examinations; Study guides PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On How an election was bought and sold, from October 1960: Letter By “Ex-Kentucky Employee” Letter By “The Editors” On Command performance, from October 1960: Letter By Thomas J. Dodd Letter By Kenneth Tynan Letter By John Fischer On The cults of “research” and “creativity”, from October 1960: Letter By Donald Kennedy On What the press has done to Boston and vice versa, from October 1960: Letter By Samuel E. Angoff On The politics of medicine, from October 1960: Letter By Herbert Berger Letter By Anthony T. Marino Letter By Nathaniel S. Lehrman Letter By Michael Halberstam On The patient's right to die, from October 1960: Letter By James H. Laird Letter By Franklin H. Epstein Letter By Evelyn Hedman On Do you really want a family doctor?, from October 1960: Letter By I. Phillips Frohman Letter By Dana W. Atchley On Medical research, from October 1960: Letter By Carleton B. Chapman Letter By Lane W. Adams Letter By Basil O'Connor On The ignored lesson of Anne Frank, from November 1960: Letter By Anthony Amato Letter By Mrs. Paul Meggs Letter By Arje Latz Letter By John Gardner Letter By Bernard N. Bachra Letter By Nancy Kaghan Letter By “Virginian” Letter By “The Editors” On Potawatomi's daughter, from November 1960: Letter By Baker Brownell On Representative good music stations (FM), from October 1960: Letter By Jr. and Pyke Johnson On A better way to run our political conventions, from October 1960: Letter By James Fleming On I was a flack for the wild blue yonder, from November 1960: Letter By William R. Geddings On Ten million statues, from November 1960: Letter By Sheila B. Kessler PDF IMAGES
16-24	The easy chair/Collection The easy chair PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article The easy chair By Thomas J. Dodd SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Dissenters; Legislative hearings; National security; Powers and duties; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
22-24	The easy chair/Article Mr. Tynan replies By Kenneth Tynan SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Dissenters; Legislative hearings; National security; Powers and duties; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
24	The easy chair/Article Editor's note By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Legislative hearings; Powers and duties; Separation of powers; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
26-28	After hours/Article Down-Easterner off to Europe By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Landscape painters; Hartley, Marsden; Traveling exhibitions PDF IMAGES
28-31	After hours/Article Reflections in a puddle By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Film criticism; Film critics; Kracauer, Siegfried; Theory of film, the redemption of physical reality (Book) PDF IMAGES
33-41	Article A new start in foreign policy By William Pfaff and Edmund O. Stillman SEE ALSO: Cold War; Developing countries; Great powers; 1961-1963; Western influences PDF IMAGES
37	Poem The year changes in the city By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
42-44	Article My other books By James A. (James Albert) Michener SEE ALSO: Biography—Humor; Michener, James A. (James Albert); Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
45-50	Article Kentucky's quiet revolution By John Ed Pearce SEE ALSO: Combs, Bert T.; Career as Kentucky governor; Career as Kentucky lieutenant governor; Economic assistance, Domestic; Mountain whites (Southern States); Wyatt, Wilson W. (Wilson Watkins) PDF IMAGES
53-57	Article The people-machine By Thomas Bruce Morgan SEE ALSO: Computer programs; Computer simulation; Election forecasting; 1960; Public opinion polls; Voting research PDF IMAGES
57	Poem A sigh for cybernetics By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article The pressures against air safety By Elwood R. (Elwood Richard) Quesada SEE ALSO: Aeronautics; Air traffic rules; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
65-74	Article The baffled young men of Japan By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: American influences; 1945-1989; Young men PDF IMAGES Collection The baffled young men of Japan By Peter Ferdinand Drucker PDF IMAGES
68	Article Wages and jobs in Japan By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Employee loyalty; Wages; Young men PDF IMAGES
74	Poem To my survivors By William Gibson PDF IMAGES
75-77	Article Blank forms can ruin a woman By Helen Hudson SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Home and school; Household surveys; Rural women; Statistical methods PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article The crisis in American medicine: As Harper's readers see it SEE ALSO: Circulation; Letters to the editor; Medical economics; Medical ethics; Medical policy PDF IMAGES
84-93	Fiction The well: A story By Hugh Nissenson PDF IMAGES
94-102	Public and personal/Article High style in White House politics By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. vice president; Kennedy, John F.; Leadership; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1961-1963; United States. Congress. Senate; Vice-Presidents PDF IMAGES
103-106	The new books/Review Ingredients everywhere By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: A voice from the attic (Book); Terëtìs, Abram; Huxley, Aldous; West, Anthony; Dinesen, Isak; Kilpatrick, James Jackson; Updike, John; Fiedler, Leslie A.; Hanan, Mack; No! In thunder (Book); On art and artists (Book); Rabbit, run (Book); Davies, Robertson; Shadows on the grass (Book); The pacifiers (Book); The smut peddlers (Book); The trend is up (Book); The trial begins (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: American art museums and galleries: an introduction to looking (Book); Abelson, Ann; Architecture in America: a photographic history from the colonial period to the present (Book); Confessions of an art addict (Book); Cora Crane (Book); Decision at Delphi (Book); Spencer, Elizabeth; Spaeth, Eloise; Larrabee, Eric; MacInnes, Helen; Horrible: an account of the sad achievement of progress (Book); Kerr, Jean; Gilkes, Lillian; Carpenter, Margaret Haley; Guggenheim, Peggy; Sara Teasdale (Book); The light in the piazza (Book); The little conquerors (Book); The self-conscious society: the state of American culture at mid-century (Book); The snake has all the lines (Book); Ungerer, Tomi; Andrews, Wayne PDF IMAGES
109	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A burnt-out case (Book); Africa; Africa A to Z: a guide for travelers—armchair and actual (Book); Africa speaks (Book); Moorehead, Alan; China court (Book); Apter, David Ernest; Gann, Ernest K.; Fate is the hunter (Book); Greene, Graham; Duffy, James; Reeves, R. Ambrose (Richard Ambrose); Manners, Robert A. (Robert Alan); Kane, Robert S.; Godden, Rumer; The African encyclopedia (Book); The shooting at Sharpesville: the agony of South Africa (Book); The White Nile (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-112	Music in the round/Review The real nationalists By Discus SEE ALSO: Sibelius, Aino; America (Sound recording); Dvorák, Antonín; Ives, Charles; Chicago Symphony; Cleveland Orchestra; Oistrakh, David Fedorovich; Dvorák: Symphony #2 in D minor; Symphony #4 in G; Symphony #5 in E minor (Sound recording); Dvorák: Symphony in D minor, op. 13 (Sound recording); Dvorák: Symphony in E flat, op. 10 (Sound recording); Dvorák: The devil and Kate (Sound recording); Bloch, Ernest; Ormandy, Eugene; Szell, George; Ives: Second symphony (Sound recording); Heifetz, Jascha; Bernstein, Leonard; Stokowski, Leopold; New York Philharmonic; Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Sibelius: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Sibelius: Violin concerto; The swan of Tuonela (Sound recording); Symphony of the Air; Neumann, Václav; Smetácek, Václav; Hendl, Walter; Chalabala, Zdenek PDF IMAGES
112	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Dvorák, Antonín; Haitink, Bernard; Dvorák: Symphony #2; Four Slavonic dances (Sound recording); Falla: Seven popular Spanish songs (Sound recording); Liszt, Franz; Bolet, Jorge; Liszt: Piano concerto in E flat; Hungarian fantasy; Mephisto waltz (Sound recording); Falla, Manuel de; Performances; Irving, Robert; Symphony of the Air; Berganza, Teresa PDF IMAGES
113	Jazz notes/Review Bizet goes to town By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Collins, Al “Jazzbo”; Kessel, Barney; Carmen (Sound recording); Ellington, Duke; Karlin, Fred; Bizet, Georges; Jazz; 1961-1970; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Rogers, Shorty; Swinging at the opera (Sound recording); The nutcracker suite (Sound recording); The swingin' nutcracker (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES