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March 1964

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Guided missiles PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On Africa's new elites, from December 1963: Letter By E. Jefferson Murphy Letter By David Hapgood On Reducing the hazards of birth, from January 1964: Letter By M.H. Lampert Letter By Solomon Garb Letter By Judd Bockner Letter By Dorothy L. Kirschbaum On Azores, from January 1964: Letter By John Updike On What is a Jew?, from January 1964: Letter By Charles F. Hampton Letter By Ira Eisenstein Letter By Samuel M. Silver On My poetic career in Vermont politics, from January 1964: Letter By Hollis French Letter By Michael Cargile Letter By Stuart T. Martin On Helping hand for a literary upstart, from September 1963: Letter By Grace Naismith On How to save money, from January 1964: Letter By Barry A. Fullerton PDF IMAGES
16-26	The easy chair/Article Let us begin: An invitation to action on poverty By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Economic assistance, Domestic; Federal aid to education; Liberalism; Social policy PDF IMAGES
30-34	After hours/Article Bird chasing—a progressive art By Crawford Benedict SEE ALSO: Bird pests; Control PDF IMAGES
34	Puzzle Poser By Philip Kaplan SEE ALSO: Mathematical recreations; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
39-47	Article Arms and the big money men: Part I. Congressmen, contractors, and the “defense” pork barrel By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Defense contracts; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; Political ethics; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
48-50	Article Playing the ponies with a pair of experts By Priscilla D. Willis SEE ALSO: Betting; Horse racing PDF IMAGES
51-54	Article The uncompleted man By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Civilization, Western; Human evolution PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article Herculaneum: Italy's neglected treasure trove By Joseph Jay Deiss SEE ALSO: Excavations (Archaeology); Herculaneum; Herculaneum (Extinct city) PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction A minute forty seven of the second: A story By Tom Mayer PDF IMAGES
69-77	Collection Justice with a southern accent By Louis Lusky PDF IMAGES Article Do our federal courts need emancipating? By Louis Lusky SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Discrimination in justice administration; Federal-state controversies PDF IMAGES
75	Article The Pullman doctrine By Louis Lusky SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Discrimination in justice administration; Federal-state controversies PDF IMAGES
78-86	Article The strange twilight of Harry Bridges: A labor leader turns businessman By Burton H. Wolfe SEE ALSO: Career as labor leader; Bridges, Harry; Industrial relations; Labor leaders; Portraits; San Francisco; Stevedores; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
86	Poem For an absence By Jack Marshall PDF IMAGES
88-96	Article A man with a country By Milton Sanford Mayer SEE ALSO: Class actions (Civil procedure); Internal security; International travel regulations; Loyalty oaths; Mayer, Milton Sanford; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
98-108	Article Every artist needs a hard-boiled patron By Edgar Wind SEE ALSO: Artists and patrons; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
110	Notice Crime and punishment By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Criminal justice, Administration of; Special numbers PDF IMAGES
111-112	Article Jargon in the humanities By James Steel Smith SEE ALSO: Jargon; Terminology PDF IMAGES
113-116	Washington insight/Article Presidential politics in LBJ style By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; Transition periods PDF IMAGES
116	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
117-126	The new books/Review Interest, human and otherwise By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A fine madness (Book); A frieze of girls (Book); Seager, Allan; Because I was flesh (Book); Biography; Burton (Book); Farwell, Byron; May, Edgar; Dahlberg, Edward; Baker, Elliott; Smith, Gene; Jubb (Book); Waterhouse, Keith; Kim, Richard E.; MacGregor-Hastie, Roy; Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; The day of the lion (Book); The martyred (Book); The wasted Americans (Book); When the cheering stopped (Book) PDF IMAGES
126-129	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A short history of Australia (Book); Moorehead, Alan; Rogow, Arnold A.; Clark, C.M.H. (Charles Manning Hope); Cooper's Creek (Book); Einbinder, Harvey; Drawbell, James; James Drawbell: an autobiography (Book); James Forrestal: a study of personality, politics, and policy (Book); Sanders, Joan; Moosdorf, Johanna; Sarraute, Nathalie; Next door (Book); The golden fruits (Book); The myth of the Britannica (Book); The nature of witches (Book) PDF IMAGES
130-132	Music in the round/Review Something for the civilized By Discus SEE ALSO: Dvorák, Antonín; Weber, Carl Maria von; Rosen, Charles; Delius: Violin concerto. Barber: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Dvorák: Piano concerto in G minor (Sound recording); Delius, Frederick; Somogya, Laszlo; Performances; Gerle, Robert; Schumann, Robert; Zeller, Robert; Firkusny, Rudolf; Barber, Samuel; Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Carnaval (Sound recording); Desarzens, Victor; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Kurz, Vilém; Weber: Symphonies (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
133	Jazz notes/Review Three in one By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Golson, Benny; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Kirk, Rahsaan Roland; The Roland Kirk Quartet meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES