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December 1963

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Charles Goslin SEE ALSO: Christian art and symbolism PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Scientists in collision, from August 1963: Letter By Donald H. Menzel Letter By Eric Larrabee On Letters, from September 1963: Letter By Oswald Tippo On Chiang Kai-shek's silent enemies, from September 1963: Letter By Mariano Lim Letter By Ng Jiu-rin Letter By Richard Wang On Our most American animal, from October 1963: Letter By Helen Kay Eason On Danger in our medical labs, from October 1963: Letter By Rose L. Berman Letter By Morris Schaeffer Letter By “Name Withheld” Letter By Norbert Enzer Letter By Dorothy Willoughby On The tangled romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, from October 1963: Letter By Dorothy Argow On A small band of practical heroes, from October 1963: Letter By George H. Elliott Letter By Faye King PDF IMAGES
14-22	The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Animal marking; Bears; Career as director of U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing; Career as New York (New York) traffic commissioner; Career as North Dakota rancher; Career as nursing home administrator; Career as Washington (D.C.) hotelkeeper; Career as wildlife manager; Career in dental research; Civil service reform; Colorado; Control; Coyotes; Hadjimarkos, D.M.; Dental caries; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Downsizing of organizations; Government paperwork; Sternik, Hans; Barnes, Henry; Holtzclaw, Henry J.; Murphy, Hugh; Ice accidents; Killdeer; Coyne, Marshall; Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation; Gundrum, Earl, Mrs.; North Dakota; Open spaces; Oregon; Pittsburgh; Portland; Pre-trial release; Prevention; Ranchers; Free, Stuart; Traffic congestion; Veterinary toxicology; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
24-28	After hours/Article Computer poetry or, sob suddenly, the bongos are moving By F.P. Tullius SEE ALSO: American poetry PDF IMAGES
33-39	Article Restraints on American Catholic freedom By Jon Victor SEE ALSO: Administration; Catholic Church; Church renewal; Discipline; John XXIII, Pope; Theology; Views on church renewal PDF IMAGES
38	Notice Looking ahead By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1960 PDF IMAGES
40-42	Article My anti-headache diet By Upton Sinclair SEE ALSO: Diet therapy; Headache; Homeopathic treatment; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article Africa's new elites By David Hapgood SEE ALSO: Hapgood, David; Elite (Social sciences); Journeys—Africa, French-speaking West; 1960; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
49	Poem The sundial By Valerie Worth PDF IMAGES
50-55	Collection California wines By Creighton Churchill PDF IMAGES Article A look at the vineyards around the Golden Gate By Creighton Churchill SEE ALSO: California, Northern; Vineyards; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
55	Article Outstanding vineyards of the north counties By Creighton Churchill SEE ALSO: California, Northern; Vineyards PDF IMAGES
56-62	Article How to treat the Broadway malady of 1963 By Albert Bermel SEE ALSO: Designs and plans; Theater audiences; Theater management; Theaters PDF IMAGES
59	Poem Meditation in a booth By Judson Jerome PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article The slow, quiet murder of tax reform By Philip M. Stern SEE ALSO: Depletion allowances; Lobbyists; 1961-1963; Taxation PDF IMAGES
70-74	Fiction Boola, boola, Babe Ruth, and a jug of whiskey sours: A story By Milton White PDF IMAGES
76-82	Article Detroit's surprising mayor By Thomas L. Nicholson SEE ALSO: Career as Detroit (Mich.) mayor; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Cavanagh, Jerome P.; Labor laws and legislation; Mayors; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
83-87	Collection The debate over Velikovsky PDF IMAGES Article An astronomer's rejoinder By Donald Howard Menzel SEE ALSO: Catastrophes (Geology); Cosmology; Velikovsky, Immanuel; Methodology; Views on catastrophes in geology; Worlds in collision (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	Article A comment on Dr. Menzel's rejoinder By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Catastrophes (Geology); Cosmology; Velikovsky, Immanuel; Methodology; Views on catastrophes in geology; Worlds in collision (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-95	Article The angry young women By Ellen Moers SEE ALSO: American literature; Brontë, Charlotte; Criticism and interpretation; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn; English literature; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Views on women authors; Woolf, Virginia; Women authors; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
100-105	Washington insight/Article Mr. Ambassador By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career as British ambassador to United States; Career as U.S. president; Diplomatic and consular service, British; Kennedy, John F.; 1945-1964; 1961-1963; Gore, Ormsby PDF IMAGES
106-116	The new books/Review Seasonable truths By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Liebling, A.J. (Abbott Joseph); A reader for parents (Book); Burnham, Alan; Turnbull, Andrew; Wolf, Anna W.M.; Beyond the melting pot (Book); Daniel P. Moynihan; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Wilson, Edmund; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); I hear thunder (Book); Galbraith, John Kenneth; Mandate for change, 1953-1956 (Book); Nathan Glazer; New York landmarks (Book); Mailer, Norman; Creeley, Robert; Selvon, Samuel; Diamond, Sigmund; The Cold War and the income tax (Book); The island (Book); The letters of Scott Fitzgerald (Book); The McLandress dimension (Book); The most of Liebling (Book); The nation transformed (Book); The presidential papers (Book); Cole, William PDF IMAGES
118-126	Review The new children's books: How to winnow the good ones out of the heaps of chaff By Ruth Hill Viguers SEE ALSO: A golden touch (Book); Johnson, Annabel; At the Seven Stars (Book); Picard, Barbara Leonie; Brother to Galahad (Book); Castors away (Book); Children's books; Children's literature; Dream of the dormouse (Book); Johnson, Edgar; Parker, Edgar; Ormondroyd, Edward; Treviño, Elizabeth Borton de; Enright, Elizabeth; Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane; Haugaard, Erik Christian; Faraway Lurs (Book); Bowers, Gwendolyn; Hakon of Rogen's saga (Book); Behn, Harry; Burton, Hester; Beatty, John; Lost John (Book); Nacar, the white deer (Book); Beatty, Patricia; Tatsinda (Book); The princess and the lion (Book); Time at the top (Book) PDF IMAGES
126-127	Review For Christmas By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A gardner's book of plant names (Book); A life in photography (Book); An uninhibited treasury of erotic poetry (Book); Smith, Archibald William; Eisinger, Chester E.; Steichen, Edward; Erotic poetry: the lyrics, ballads, idyls and epics of love—classical to contemporary (Book); Fiction of the forties (Book); Great gardens of the western world (Book); Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Monaghan, Jay; Know your toes (Book); Untermeyer, Louis; Einsel, Naiad; Coats, Peter; Photographs by Cartier-Bresson (Book); Cook, Roderick; Royal portraits (Book); Selected prefaces and introductions of W. Somerset Maugham (Book); Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; The book of the American West (Book); Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset); Einsel, Walter; Cole, William; Jayme, William North PDF IMAGES
128-129	Music in the round/Review Vocal slaves or supremacists By Discus SEE ALSO: Bergonzi, Carlo; Cava, Carlo; Puccini, Giacomo; Rossini, Gioacchino; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Verdi, Giuseppe; Wallace, Ian; Sutherland, Joan; Price, Leontyne; Alva, Luigi; Performances; Puccini: Tosca (Sound recording); Rossini: The barber of Seville (Sound recording); Bruscantini, Sesto; Verdi: La traviata (Sound recording); Angeles, Victoria de los; Gui, Vittorio PDF IMAGES
130	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review A mix and a miss By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Christy, June; Performances PDF IMAGES