Harper's Magazine: April 1972

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April 1972

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Leonard Soned (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Businessmen PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Career as executive; Corporations; Vandivier, Kermit PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Women's Lib and the Caperton girls, from February 1972: Letter By Dixie W. Brookshire On War behind walls, from February 1972: Letter By Edward Bunker Letter By Merrill Pollack Letter By Keith S. Reynolds Letter By O.E. Van Horn Letter By Lou Torok On Journal of a plague year, from February 1972: Letter By Sue Hause On Nothing wrong that excellence won't cure, from February 1972: Letter By Lawrence Goldman Letter By Harold C. Schonberg PDF IMAGES
12-25	The easy chair/Article Field notes on the changing South: Phony Indians, a Bavarian village, a circuit-riding city manager, and other unlikelihoods By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Atlanta (Ga.); Social change PDF IMAGES
26-30	Article A dollar for the mugger By Ruth Mooney SEE ALSO: Experiences as crime victim; Lower East Side (New York, New York); Narcotics and crime; Robbery; Mooney, Ruth PDF IMAGES
32-42	Article Marching to different drummers By Arthur J. Roth SEE ALSO: Catholics; 1969-; Northern Ireland; Parades; Protestants PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article The aircraft brake scandal By Kermit Vandivier SEE ALSO: Airplanes; Brakes; Business ethics; Career as employee of B.F. Goodrich Company; Corrupt practices; Fraud; Vandivier, Kermit PDF IMAGES
54-56	Article Beyond reelection day By Richard Reeves SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
58-66	Poem Now and when By R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster) Fuller PDF IMAGES
68-72	Article Portrait of an aging despot By Tom Buckley SEE ALSO: Career as military officer; Loan, Nguyen Ngoc; Press coverage; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
74-79	Article The ethics of addiction By Thomas Stephen Szasz SEE ALSO: Drug abuse; Drug legalization; Narcotic habit; Narcotics, Control of PDF IMAGES
80-88	Fiction Did you ever slip on red blood? By Joyce Carol Oates PDF IMAGES
90-94	Article Up against the system in Seattle By Patrick Douglas SEE ALSO: City planning; Seattle; Urban renewal; Washington PDF IMAGES
95	Poem How Crazy Horse was killed By George Keithley PDF IMAGES
96-101	Books/Review Marx is dead By Richard Schickel SEE ALSO: Autopsy of revolution (Book); Communism; Ellul, Jacques PDF IMAGES
102-103	Books/Review A market for snake oil By Alden Whitman SEE ALSO: Fascism; Foreign public opinion, American; Diggins, John P.; Mussolini and fascism: the view from America (Book); 1922-1945 PDF IMAGES
104-105	Performing arts/Article Balanchine: Slaughtering a sacred cow By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Tudor, Antony; Ballet; Choreographers; Criticism and interpretation; Balanchine, George; New York City Ballet PDF IMAGES
106-108	Games some people play/Article Cross-country skiing By John D. Casey SEE ALSO: Career in cross-country skiing; Casey, John D. PDF IMAGES