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August 1963

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Eyeglasses PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The craft of intelligence, from April 1963: Letter By Abraham G. Duker On Is the welfare state obsolete?, from June 1963: Letter By Thomas J. Cummins Letter By Ruth Dancyger Letter By Barry W. Strejcek Letter By Clyde T. Ellis Letter By Irving Kristol On Renaissance at the University of Texas, from June 1963: Letter By Keen Rafferty Letter By William R. Buckellew On The Hollywood nursery, from June 1963: Letter By Jean Faust On Bertrand Russell on the sinful Americans, from June 1963: Letter By John Phelps Letter By Richard E. Rubenstein Letter By Peter A. Mood Letter By Selma Raskin PDF IMAGES
12-22	The easy chair/Article What's in the package? Lessons in practical detective work for supermarket shoppers By William D. Zabel SEE ALSO: Deceptive advertising; Grocery shopping; Packaging PDF IMAGES
24-29	After hours/Article A fly-by-night trip to Morocco By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Morocco; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
31-35	Article How to read the financial pages without going broke By Peter B. Bart SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Journalism, Commercial; Journalistic ethics; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
36-41	Article The ice tiger By Mary Jean Kempner SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Polar bear PDF IMAGES
42-47	Article Kenwood foils the block-busters By Elinor Richey SEE ALSO: Community organization; Discrimination in housing; Segregation; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
48-55	Article Scientists in collision: Was Velikovsky right? By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Catastrophes (Geology); Cosmology; Velikovsky, Immanuel; Methodology; The Middle East; Views on catastrophes in geology; Worlds in collision (Book) PDF IMAGES
50	Article The red badge of literacy By Charles Henry Howe Ford SEE ALSO: Circulation; Executions and executioners; Murfreesboro; Murfreesboro (Tenn.), Battle of, 1862-1863; Personal narratives PDF IMAGES
56-61	Article To be a Bernhardt By Henry Butler SEE ALSO: Actresses PDF IMAGES
62-66	Article The only way to write a modern poem about a nightingale By Aldous Huxley SEE ALSO: Animal behavior; Literature and science PDF IMAGES
66	Notice “The tangled romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson,” by Vincent Sheean By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers PDF IMAGES
69-75	Article Riot squad for the New Frontier By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Career as U.S. attorney general; Civil Rights; 1961-1963; Officials and employees; Organized crime investigation; Kennedy, Robert F.; United States. Dept. of Justice PDF IMAGES
76-83	Article New York drowns another valley By Noel Perrin SEE ALSO: Cost effectiveness; Water conservation; Water resources development; Water-supply PDF IMAGES
82	Poem If you were here By Richard Tillinghast PDF IMAGES
88-92	Fiction Homecoming; a story By Tom Mayer PDF IMAGES
93-98	The new books/Review Love, irony, and a bit of vitriol By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Baker, Carlos; Rolo, Charles James; Caudill, Harry M.; Morris, James; Fowles, John; Ross, Lillian; Tanner, Louise; Miss Bannister's girls (Book); Night comes to the Cumberlands (Book); Psychiatry in American life (Book); Price, Reynolds; The collector (Book); The land of Rumblelow (Book); The names and faces of heroes (Book); The road to Huddersfield (Book); Vertical and horizontal (Book) PDF IMAGES
96	Poem Mr. Masoch and Count de Sade By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
98-99	The new books/Review Mathematics for practically everybody By V. Guillemin SEE ALSO: A sophisticate's primer of relativity (Book); Olds, C.D. (Carl Douglas); Continued fractions (Book); Land, Frank; Graphs and their uses (Book); Wright, Helen; Newman, James Roy; Machines, music, and puzzles (Book); Gardner, Martin; Mathematics; Mathematics (Book); Men and numbers (Book); Bridgman, P.W. (Percy Williams); Relativity for the million (Book); Rapport, Samuel Berder; The language of mathematics (Book); The mathematical way of thinking (Book); The world of laws and the world of chance (Book); Ore, Øystein PDF IMAGES
99	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
100-101	Music in the round/Review Siegfried, Beatrice and Benedict, Bluebeard By Discus SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Cantelo, April; Bartók, Béla; Beatrice and Benedict (Sound recording); Nilsson, Birgit; Bluebeard's castle (Book); Davis, Colin; Stolze, Gerhard; Neidlinger, Gustav; Hotter, Hans; Berlioz, Hector; Sutherland, Joan; Cameron, John; Mitchinson, John; Veasey, Josephine; London Symphony; Székely, Mihály; Szonyi, Olga; Performances; Wagner, Richard; Solti, Georg, Sir; St. Anthony Singers; Vienna Philharmonia; Wagner: Siegfried (Sound recording); Windgassen, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Brailowsky, Alexander; Boskovsky Ensemble; Walter, Bruno; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Cream puffs aus Wien (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Mahler, Gustav; Mahler: Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Performances PDF IMAGES
101	Jazz notes/Review The place By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970 PDF IMAGES