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October 1968

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: Buildings; Columbia University PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The case for the rebellious students and their counterrevolution, from August 1968: Letter By Stephen C. Bandy Letter By Edward Schwartz Letter By Robert A. Oakes Letter By J.W. Olmsted On America 1968, from August 1968: Letter By Harley McAdams Letter By John van Laer Letter By Clement A. Norton On Since Freud, from August 1968: Letter By Ernest Van Den Haag On Oil shale, from August 1968: Letter By Dayton H. Clewell On No. 2, from September 1968: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
12-36	The easy chair/Article Can Ralph R. Widner save New York, Chicago, and Detroit? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appalachian Regional Commission; Career as executive director of the Appalachian Regional Commission; Economic assistance, Domestic; Governors; Widner, Ralph R. PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Husband and wife PDF IMAGES
38-42	After hours/Article Stacked-up By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Architects; Architecture; Commercial buildings; Grand Central Terminal (New York, New York); Traffic congestion; Urban policy PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Conflict of generations PDF IMAGES
45-57	Fiction They are taking my letters By Jeremy Larner PDF IMAGES
52	Poem Daddy By Rachel Hadas PDF IMAGES
58-71	Article Inside Capitol Hill: How the House really works By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Committees; 1963-1969; Politics, Practical; United States. Congress; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES Collection Inside Capitol Hill: how the House really works By Larry L. King PDF IMAGES
66	Article Recreations . . . and an epitaph By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Pool, Joe; King, Larry L.; Relations with Joe Pool; Relations with Larry L. King PDF IMAGES
68	Cartoon “Quick—whoop like a whooping crane!” SEE ALSO: Duck shooting; Ducks PDF IMAGES
72-80	Article The news on TV and how it is unmade By Robert MacNeil SEE ALSO: Broadcast journalism; Mass media and the conflict; Television broadcasting of news; Television news anchors PDF IMAGES
79	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Prevention; Suicide PDF IMAGES
83-87	Article The joys of Yiddish By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Jews; Yiddish language PDF IMAGES
88-95	Article Mondale and Harris: Humphrey's establishment radicals By Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak SEE ALSO: Career as campaign advisor to Hubert Humphrey; Career as U.S. presidential candidate; The Democratic Party; Harris, Fred R.; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Liberalism; 1968; Political and social views; Mondale, Walter F. PDF IMAGES
96-102	Article Life in the yellow submarine: Buffalo's SUNY By Barbara Probst Solomon SEE ALSO: Buildings; College teachers; Education, Higher; Faculty PDF IMAGES
104-107	Books/Review George Kennan and the students By Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: Democracy and the student left (Book); Kennan, George Frost PDF IMAGES
105	Cartoon “Make that upper-middle class.” SEE ALSO: Household surveys PDF IMAGES
108-112	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Come along with me: a partial novel: sixteen stories and three lectures (Book); Richter, Conrad; Garnett, David; Cozzens, James Gould; Joyce Cary: a biography (Book); Foster, Malcolm; Connelly, Marc; Morning noon and night (Book); Jackson, Shirley; Hyman, Stanley Edgar; White, T.H. (Terence Hanbury); The aristocrat (Book); The White/Garnett letters (Book); Voices offstage: a book of memoirs (Book) PDF IMAGES
113-115	Performing arts/Review The new playwrights: Collision course By Gerald Clifford Weales SEE ALSO: Camera obscura (Play); Chuck (Play); Perr, Harvey; Horovitz, Israel; Larson, Jack; Van Itallie, Jean Claude; Jew! (Play); Feiffer, Jules; Wilson, Lanford; Melfi, Leonard; Duberman, Martin B.; Metaphors (Play); Off-Broadway theater; One-act plays; Rats (Play); Patrick, Robert; Drexler, Rosalyn; Thie, Sharon; Skywriting (Play); Stars and stripes (Play); McNally, Terrence; The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler (Play); Thoughts on the instant of greeting a friend on the street (Play); Tour (Play); Wandering (Play) PDF IMAGES
114	Cartoon Cartoon PDF IMAGES
116-119	Music in the round/Review The scandal of repertory By Discus SEE ALSO: Svetlanov, Evgeniæi Fedorovich; Gottschalk: A night in the tropics; Tarantelle for piano and orchestra. Gould: Latin-American symphonette (Sound recording); Hallé Orchestra; Weill, Kurt; Gottschalk, Louis Moreau; Gould, Morton; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Vaughan Williams, Ralph; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Boult, Adrian, Sir; Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1; Symphony no. 2; Symphony no. 3 (Sound recording); U.S.S.R. Symphony; Vaughan Williams: London symphony (Sound recording); IVaughan Williams: Symphony no. 6; The lark ascendingR (Sound recording); Weill: Dreigroschenoper (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bank tellers; Nudity PDF IMAGES
118	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] SEE ALSO: Halberstam, David; Feiffer, Jules; King, Larry L.; Mailer, Norman; Portraits PDF IMAGES
120	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 3: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES