Harper's Magazine: November 1972

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November 1972

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Jill Krementz (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Kurt Vonnegut; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Bicentennial blues, from July 1972: Letter By Robert Reiss On The world on $5 a day, from July 1972: Letter By Carter Wiseman On The invisible army, from August 1972: Letter By Donald E. Johnson Letter By Tony Jones On This we remember, from September 1972: Letter By David Douglas Duncan Letter By W.E. Garrett Letter By John G. (John Godfrey) Morris On The curious case of the indicted meat inspectors, from September 1972: Letter By Doreen Affsa Letter By Gilbert Parmalee Letter By T.W. Kopczynski Letter By Peter Schuck PDF IMAGES
12-18	The easy chair/Article A dirge for DeVoto and the new heresy of light whiskey By John Fischer SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Views on whiskey; Whiskey; Whiskey industry PDF IMAGES
20-26	Article Kilroy's new message By Jim Hougan SEE ALSO: Graffiti; Restrooms PDF IMAGES
28-31	Article Public documents By Bob Zelnick SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Natural gas pipelines; Petroleum industry and trade; Records and correspondence; United States. Dept. of Interior PDF IMAGES
32-38	Games some people play/Article Gentlemen prefer monopoly By Milton Viorst SEE ALSO: Antitrust investigations; Antitrust law; Monopolies PDF IMAGES
40-56	Article The giant in the tube By Anton Myrer SEE ALSO: Baseball; Football PDF IMAGES
59	Countersigns/Article Countersigns By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: 1969-1974; 1972 PDF IMAGES
60-68	Article In a manner that must shame God himself By Kurt Vonnegut SEE ALSO: 1969-1974; 1972; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
73-74	Fiction Lycanthrope By Kenneth Bernard PDF IMAGES
74-84	Article Just plain George By Robert Sam Anson SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley); 1972 PDF IMAGES
86-87	Game Harper's secret personality game PDF IMAGES
88-89	Article Six ways your vote can be stolen By Jack Harrison Pollack SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Elections; Voting PDF IMAGES
90-96	Article Love among the cabbages By Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird SEE ALSO: Backster, Cleve; Knowledge—Consciousness in plants; Plants; Psychic aspects PDF IMAGES
97-101	Photo The barn By Dudley Whitney (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Barns; North America PDF IMAGES
102-111	Article A tax assessor has many friends By George, Jr. Crile SEE ALSO: Career as tax assessor; Gary; Gary (Ind.); Political corruption; Tax assessment; Fadell, Thomas R. PDF IMAGES
112	Commentary/Article Star-spangled ideas By Robert Reiss SEE ALSO: American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 PDF IMAGES
114	Commentary/Article Frommer's turnpike tempest By Carter Wiseman SEE ALSO: Frommer, Arthur; Europe on $5 a day (Book); Munich; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES Commentary/Collection Commentary Commentary PDF IMAGES Commentary/Poem Verse adverse By Edward Marks PDF IMAGES Commentary/Poem Commentary Commentary By Bill Sayer PDF IMAGES Commentary/Poem Commentary Commentary By Stewart Levine PDF IMAGES Commentary/Poem Commentary Commentary By Richie Stein PDF IMAGES
115	Commentary/Article Through the tube darkly . . . Telecontraception By Margaret Bennett SEE ALSO: Birth control; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
116-118	Commentary/Article Consumers under fire By James H. Harger SEE ALSO: Consumer education; Consumers PDF IMAGES
120-123	Books/Review . . . The snow never falls forever By William Kittredge SEE ALSO: Tedlock, Dennis E.; Finding the center (Book); Storm, Hyemeyohsts; Fire, John; Lame Deer, seeker of visions (Book); Erdoes, Richard; Seven arrows (Book); McLuhan, T.C.; Touch the earth (Book) PDF IMAGES
124-125	Books/Review The common ground of mysticism and science By William Irwin Thompson SEE ALSO: Gopi Krishna; Mysticism; Religion and science; The yogi and the physicist: the biological basis of religion and genius (Book); Yoga PDF IMAGES
126-129	Music in the round/Review Scriabin and other piano recordings By Discus SEE ALSO: Scriabin, Aleksander Nikolayevich; Larrocha, Alicia de; Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti; Beethoven: Sonata no. 4 in E flat, op. 7 (Sound recording); Chopin: Piano concerto no. 2. De Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (Sound recording); Debussy, Claude; Debussy: Images; Children's corner (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Janacek: Complete piano music (Sound recording); Janácek, Leos; Liszt: B minor sonata. Schumann: G minor sonata (Sound recording); Maazel, Lorin; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Falla, Manuel de; Argerich, Martha; Performances; Piano music; Piano sonatas (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Szidon, Roberto; Laredo, Ruth; Scriabin: Piano concerto; Fifth symphony (Prometheus—poem of fire) (Sound recording); Scriabin: Sonatas nos. 4-10 (Sound recording); Scriabin: Twelve etudes (op. 8) (Sound recording); Merzhanov, Viktor; Ashkenazy, Vladimir PDF IMAGES
132-133	The Harper's game/Department Polychrome By Robert Meyer PDF IMAGES