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May 1972

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	Photo [Cover art] By Jerry Sarapochiello (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Head; Sand PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Wellford, Harrison; Jews, Soviet; Schuck, Peter H.; Portraits PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Georgia, from March 1972: Letter By Reg Murphy On A happy death, from March 1972: Letter By Joy Chute On The scientist as shaman, from March 1972: Letter By Robert Ardrey Letter By Emmett E.Q. Hayes Letter By S.L. (Sherwood Larned) Washburn Letter By Malachi Martin On Mickey Mouse in the mountains, from March 1972: Letter By Venlo Wolfsohn Letter By Peter Browning On Eight months on full feed, from March 1972: Letter By Eugene Kiezel PDF IMAGES
12-20	The easy chair/Article The frog-hair problem By Fred R. Harris SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Career in politics; Harris, Fred R.; Oklahoma; Political candidates PDF IMAGES
22-31	Article Letter from MIT By Spencer Klaw SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Scientists; Study and teaching (Higher) PDF IMAGES
32-34	Article Counterfeit news By Bucinator SEE ALSO: Authorship of fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes; Irving, Clifford; Impostors and imposture; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
36-38	Article The price of power By Anthony Wolff SEE ALSO: Electric power production; Electric utilities; Environmental aspects; Pollution PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article Shuffle brain By Paul Pietsch SEE ALSO: Brain; Holographic theory of memory; Memory; Neurology PDF IMAGES
49-53	Article The car of the future By Daniel A. Jedlicka SEE ALSO: Forecasting PDF IMAGES
56-66	Article Democracy and the good life in a company town By Peter H. Schuck and Harrison Wellford SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Drury, Carl; Company towns; Paper industry PDF IMAGES
68-71	Article Televising the conventions By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Political conventions; Television and politics; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
72-79	Article From Russia with chutzpah By Anatole Shub SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Israel; Jews; Jews, Soviet PDF IMAGES
80-84	Article Bye bye, Miss American Pie By Richard Goldstein SEE ALSO: Homes and haunts—Connecticut; Jews; New Yorkers; Goldstein, Richard; WASPs (Persons) PDF IMAGES
86-92	Fiction Interstices By Gail Godwin PDF IMAGES
94	Commentary/Article Commentary Commentary By Claude Julien SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
95	Commentary/Article Commentary Commentary By George Gale SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
96-100	Books/Article The well-spoken passions of William H. Gass By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Gass, William H. PDF IMAGES
102-104	Books/Review From art to avarice: The sad fate of America's upper-crust brothels By Alden Whitman SEE ALSO: A house is not a home (Book); Kimball, Nell; Nell Kimball: her life as an American madam (Book); Tabor, Pauline; Pauline's (Book); Adler, Polly; Prostitution; Longstreet, Stephen; The happy hooker (Book); Hollander, Xaviera PDF IMAGES