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December 1973

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	Photo [Cover art] By Benno Friedman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Men PDF IMAGES
5-129	Wraparound/Collection Wraparound PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Ingenuity: Grasp the obvious; expect the impossible By Tony Jones SEE ALSO: Astronautics; Creative ability in technology; Group work in research PDF IMAGES
6	Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Joseph Wood Krutch PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Distinctions By Edgar Allan Poe PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By da Vinci Leonardo SEE ALSO: Helicopters PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Elementary, my dear Watson By Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The icemen cometh By Patrick Young SEE ALSO: Antarctica; California, Southern; Icebergs; Hult, John L.; Knowledge—Icebergs; Ostrander, Neill C.; Utilization; Water resources development PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Creativity in the kitchen By Peg Bracken SEE ALSO: Cookery (Leftovers) PDF IMAGES
7	Wraparound/Article Improving on the wheel By Daniel A. Jedlicka SEE ALSO: Design; Tire industry; Tires, Rubber PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By William Feather PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The galactic telephone By Carl Sagan SEE ALSO: Interstellar communication; Puerto Rico PDF IMAGES
8	Wraparound/Article Scientific suspenders SEE ALSO: Suspenders PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Bound by the surround By Elting Elmore Morison SEE ALSO: Technological innovations PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Screen power By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Control; Developing countries; Environmental aspects; Insect pests; Population; Wire screens PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Ingenious Aylmer By Theodore Sturgeon PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Francis Bacon PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Albert Szent-Györgyi PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Honest engine: A moral tale By Dick Hubert SEE ALSO: Air; Automobile industry and trade; Knowledge—Automobiles—Motors; Pollution; Pollution control devices; Heintz, Ralph; Standards PDF IMAGES
9	Wraparound/Article The waste of the future By Glenn Collins SEE ALSO: Recycling (Waste, etc.) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The waste of the future By Sheldon M. Novick SEE ALSO: Litter (Trash) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The waste of the future By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Recycling PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Profiling the inventor By S.C. Gilfallen SEE ALSO: Inventors PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry PDF IMAGES
10	Wraparound/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; House painting; Inventions PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Care; Infants; Inventions PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Connive and conquer By Niccolò Machiavelli SEE ALSO: Conquerors; 16th century; Political atrocities PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article What we take for granted By John A. Kuecken SEE ALSO: Middle Ages; Urban V, Pope; Roads; Technological innovations; Views on road design PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Robbie the Robot R.I.P. By David Black SEE ALSO: Artificial intelligence; Robots PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Things that go bump in the patented night By Lindsay Maracotta SEE ALSO: Inventions; Patents PDF IMAGES
11	Wraparound/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Care and hygiene; Inventions; Teeth PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Genetic engineering By Amitai Etzioni SEE ALSO: Bioethics; Genetic engineering PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Voltaire PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Mark Twain PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Right can be wrong By Edward De Bono SEE ALSO: Critical thinking; Egoism PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article You fools! By John Ruskin SEE ALSO: Industrialization PDF IMAGES
12	Wraparound/Fiction The widget-man's ingenious ally By Bruce McCall PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Pierre Bayle PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The corporation as evolving invention By H. Jay Shaffer SEE ALSO: Corporations; Sociological aspects PDF IMAGES
14-21	The easy chair/Article The Christmas honors list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: America's Quarter horses (Book); Wadhwa, B.D.; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Kitzman, Betty; Biography; Campaign funds; Career as Chairman of the Boston Redevelopment Authority; Career as mayor of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Career in Indian politics; Career in radio; Career in real estate promotion; Chattanooga; Gay, Connie B.; Contribution to campaign finance reform, Iowa; Country music radio stations; Lally, Francis J.; Historic preservation; Iowa; Crews, Jon; Leinster, James Fitzgerald, Duke of,; New Delhi; Laune, Paul; Political corruption; Railroad stations; Real estate business; The uneasy chair: a biography of Bernard De Voto (Book); Urban renewal; Stegner, Wallace Earle; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
22-32	Article The sunset ride of a TV reformer By Laurence Leamer SEE ALSO: Career as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; Johnson, Nicholas; Reformers; Television; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
34-48	Article A poisoned Russian king By Nicholas Bethell SEE ALSO: Fischer, Bobby; Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich; Career in chess; Chess; Chess players; Psychology; Tournaments PDF IMAGES
50-58	Article The circle of revolution By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Assassination; Career as Mexican revolutionary; Shorris, Earl; Journeys—Mexico; Villa, Pancho; Revolution, 1910-1920 PDF IMAGES
61	Countersigns/Article Conscience and Congress: The dilemmas of obedience By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Cox, Archibald; Career as special Watergate prosecutor; Impeachment; 1969-1974; Relations with U.S. Congress; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Special prosecutors; United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
62-77	Article The perils of obedience By Stanley Milgram SEE ALSO: Authority; Conscience; Cruelty; Experiments; Human experimentation in psychology; Obedience PDF IMAGES
78-86	Article Trains into flowers By Barry Commoner SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Railroad companies; Railroads and state; Transportation PDF IMAGES
87-89	Fiction And then By Donald Barthelme PDF IMAGES
90	Poem A winter journey By James Martin PDF IMAGES Poem Daily bread By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES Poem Manna By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES
91	Poem Exposure By Arlene Stone PDF IMAGES
92-100	Article Listening to the left hand By Frank Herbert SEE ALSO: Change; Perception; Process philosophy; Reality; Relativity PDF IMAGES
103	Poem Delight By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES Poem Limits By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES Poem Mid-morning By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES
104-113	Article The hermits By Clinton Trowbridge SEE ALSO: Trowbridge, Clinton; Islands; Journeys—Maine; Recluses PDF IMAGES
114-115	Commentary/Article Save the children By Nancy E. LaRoche SEE ALSO: Children's poetry; Nursery rhymes; Pornography PDF IMAGES
115	Commentary/Article Iatrogenic and cognate ills By Martin Krakowski SEE ALSO: Diseases; Jargon (Terminology); Words, New PDF IMAGES
116-120	Books/Review The greatest warriors By Michael Eliot Howard SEE ALSO: Crozier, Brian; De Gaulle (Book); Generalissimo Churchill (Book); Thompson, R.W. PDF IMAGES
120-121	Books/Review Underground streams By Richard Howard SEE ALSO: Rich, Adrienne Cecile; Driving into the wreck (Book) PDF IMAGES
122-126	Letters/Department Letters On The grand inquest of the nation, from October 1973: Letter By Rep. William S. Moorehead On The smart white man's burden, from October 1973: Letter By John R. Payne On Skinner redux, from October 1973: Letter By John P. Conrad On Reflections on a course in ethics, from October 1973: Letter By Jr. and Philip N. Lawton On The advertising game, from October 1973: Note/correction On Report on the smiling pool set, from October 1973: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
123	Correction Erratum By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Potter, Beatrix; Career as creator of Peter Cottontail; Career as creator of Peter Rabbit; Children's stories, American; Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) PDF IMAGES
127	Wraparound/Article Fishing lessons By Robert Nathan SEE ALSO: Creative thinking; Education, Humanistic PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article How to get a patent SEE ALSO: Patents PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Well, what would you do if that happened to you? By John A. Kuecken SEE ALSO: Creative ability; Questions and answers PDF IMAGES
128	Wraparound/Article Straight Arrow SEE ALSO: Advertising cards; Cereals, Prepared; Folklore PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Special effects By Stephen W. Soule SEE ALSO: Hitchcock, Alfred; Keaton, Buster; Cinematography; Knowledge—Special effects; Special effects PDF IMAGES
129	Wraparound/Review Discoveries SEE ALSO: A comprehensible world: on modern science and its origins (Book); Adhocism: the case for improvisation (Book); Jencks, Charles; Kinnaird, Clark; Creative ability in technology; Gabor, Dennis; Morison, Elting Elmore; Goldstine, Herman Heine; Innovations (Book); Bernstein, Jeremy; McPhee, John A.; Men, machines, and modern times (Book); Silver, Nathan; Marzio, Peter C.; Silverberg, Robert; Rube Goldberg: his life and work (Book); Rube Goldberg vs. the Machine Age (Book); Science fiction hall of fame (Book); The computer from Pascal to Von Neumann (Book); The deltoid pumpkin seed (Book) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Catalogues: Where to go, what to learn By Suzanne Mantell SEE ALSO: Catalogs PDF IMAGES
130-131	Wraparound/Collection Wraparound PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Notice By way of introduction By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: “Tools for living” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Lift that log, tote that mail SEE ALSO: Tote bags PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review How's this for openers SEE ALSO: Can openers (Implements) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Eat January—1974 SEE ALSO: Calendars; Recycled products PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Whatever happened to . . . ? SEE ALSO: Sweeping and dusting PDF IMAGES
131	Wraparound/Review Pistol-packin' Mama, lay that glue gun down PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Positive reaction to a negative problem SEE ALSO: Negatives; Photo PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Aloe out there PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Notice You get the idea By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: “Tools for living” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Notice How to order By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Mail-order business; “Tools for living” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
132-133	Wraparound/Collection Wraparound PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Caring about corruption PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Notice Ideas By Robert Shnayerson PDF IMAGES
137	The Harper's game/Department Hip haiku By Selma Glasser PDF IMAGES