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October 1963

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Thompson, Dorothy; Portraits; Lewis, Sinclair PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On How to read the financial pages without going broke, from August 1963: Letter By Robert E. Bedingfield Letter By Peter Bart Letter By Steven C. Swett Letter By Scott Jones Letter By Stewart Schackne Letter By G.M. Loeb On Kenwood foils the block-busters, from August 1963: Letter By Peter J. Kahn On Scientists in collision, from August 1963: Letter By W.H. Stellner Letter By Lloyd Motz Letter By Hadley Cantril Letter By William Sloane On Riot squad for the New Frontier, from August 1963: Letter By Ralph Ginzburg On New York drowns another valley, from August 1963: Letter By Mary R. Standard On What's in the package? Lessons in practical detective work for supermarket shoppers, from August 1963: Letter By Lyle Bryce Letter By Barbara Ann Harris Letter By H. William Way PDF IMAGES
16-28	The editor's easy chair/Article A small band of practical heroes By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Civil rights movements PDF IMAGES
28	Article What other particulars? SEE ALSO: York Minster PDF IMAGES
32-38	After hours/Article Sunday painters By Frederick Franck SEE ALSO: Artists' models; Female nude in art; Painting PDF IMAGES
41-46	Article Whatever happened to the peaceful atom? By David Eli Lilienthal SEE ALSO: Government policy; Nuclear energy; Nuclear facilities; Radioactive wastes; United States. Atomic Energy Commission PDF IMAGES
47-50	Article Our most American animal By Polly Redford SEE ALSO: Raccoons PDF IMAGES
51-59	Article “Consider me a communist”: A portrait of Evtushenko on stage and off By Michel Gordey SEE ALSO: Biography; Communism and literature; Cultural policy; Poets, Russian; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article Latin: The church's mother tongue? By Hans Küng SEE ALSO: Catholic Church PDF IMAGES
65-75	Article On the road in Brazil By Merle Miller SEE ALSO: Agriculture, Cooperative; Automobile travel; Brazil; Economic assistance, American; Journeys—Brazil; Miller, Merle; Peace Corps (U.S.) PDF IMAGES
76-77	Article Governing Buckley by the numbers: A fantasy in 2,000 digits By Lawrence A. Benenson SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.); Faculty; Harvard University; 1961-1963; Representative government and representation; Telephone directories; Views on representative government—Humor; Buckley, William F. (William Frank) PDF IMAGES
78-83	Fiction In the valley: A story By Hugh Nissenson PDF IMAGES
83	Poem Love song By Anne Sexton PDF IMAGES
84-93	Article Danger in our medical labs By Maya Pines SEE ALSO: Diagnosis, Laboratory; Licenses; Medical ethics; Medical personnel; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
93	Poem The flat By Laurence Lieberman PDF IMAGES
94-96	Article Louisiana's wonderful invention By Ed Kerr SEE ALSO: 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
98-110	The new books/Review Poets, presidents, and preceptors By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Ward, Aileen; Camus, Albert; Hirschman, Albert O.; Sidey, Hugh; J.F.K., the man and the myth (Book); Sartre, Jean Paul; John F. Kennedy, President (Book); John Keats: the making of a poet (Book); Journeys toward progress: studies of economic policy-making in Latin America (Book); McCarthy, Mary; Notebooks: 1935-1942, by Albert Camus (Book); Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller; Saint Genet, actor and martyr (Book); The group (Book); Lasky, Victor PDF IMAGES
106	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
110-115	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A stress analysis of a strapless evening gown (Book); Garve, Andrew; Sevier, Anna; Early summer (Book); Born, Edith de; Armstrong, Hamilton Fish; Dana, Nathalie; Baker, Robert A.; Godden, Rumer; State of possession (Book); The battle of the Villa Fiorita (Book); The sea monks (Book); Those days (Book); Young in New York: a memoir of a Victorian girlhood (Book) PDF IMAGES
117-120	Music in the round/Review Pieces for the brave new world By Discus SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Bécaud: Opéra d'Aran (Sound recording); Britten, Benjamin; Britten: War requiem (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Gramm, Donald; Dorati: Symphony (1957); Nocturne and capriccio (Sound recording); Vishnevskaia, Galina; Shirley, George; Bécaud, Gilbert; Stravinsky, Igor; Westbrook, John; Stockhausen, Karlheinz; London Symphony; Performances; Pears, Peter; Lord, Roger; Verrett, Shirley; Stockhausen: Gesange der Jünglinge; Kontakte (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
120	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Dvorák, Antonín; Beethoven: Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Walter, Bruno; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Dvorák: Symphony #4. Brahms: Academic festival overture (Sound recording); Brahms, Johannes; Bernstein, Leonard; Beethoven, Ludwig van; New York Philharmonic PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Lochinvar By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Bull, Sandy PDF IMAGES
121-172	Article The tangled romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson By Vincent Sheean SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Thompson, Dorothy; Pictorial works; Lewis, Sinclair PDF IMAGES