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September 1978

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Rick Tulka SEE ALSO: Oil pollution of the sea PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Politics in the woods, from July 1978: Letter By Lewis Regenstein Letter By Gene Lyons Letter By “The Editors” PDF IMAGES
8-11	The easy chair/Article Pomp and circumstance: The market in kings By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; 1970-; 1977-1981; Political leadership PDF IMAGES
12-21	Article The cancer lottery: Risk rises with age By Herman T. Blumenthal SEE ALSO: Age factors; Cancer; Environmental aspects PDF IMAGES
22-27	Article Seminar in African diplomacy: In which Americans might take notes from the French By Kenneth L. Adelman SEE ALSO: Africa; American influences; Young, Andrew; Career in diplomacy; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, French; French influences PDF IMAGES
28-33	Article Against civil disarmament: On the futility of prohibiting guns By Don B. Kates SEE ALSO: Firearms ownership; Gun control; Violence PDF IMAGES
35-42	Article Prometheus bound: Rigging the odds against America By George F. Gilder SEE ALSO: Business enterprises; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; 1971-1981; Risk; Sociological aspects; Taxation; Uncertainty PDF IMAGES
43-62	Article Oil and water: In the wake of the Argo Merchant By Michael Harwood SEE ALSO: Atlantic Coast; Fishes; Oil pollution of the sea PDF IMAGES
65-72	Article The other Zionism: Accommodating Jew and Arab in Palestine By I.F. (Isidor F.) Stone SEE ALSO: Balfour Declaration; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; 1917-1948; 1917-1949; Palestine; Zionism PDF IMAGES
74	Article Ivan Illitch's syllogism By Amos Oz and N.R.M. (Nicholas Robert Michael) De Lange (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Characters—Ivan Illitch; Death in literature; Tolstoy, Leo, graf PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By Amos Oz and N.R.M. (Nicholas Robert Michael) De Lange (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
75	Article And so the simple question presents itself By Amos Oz and N.R.M. (Nicholas Robert Michael) De Lange (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel PDF IMAGES
76-82	Fiction Welcome to the arrow catchers fair: A short story By Lewis Nordan PDF IMAGES
83	In our time/Article Modern etiquette II: The coffee break By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Marijuana; Smoking in the workplace PDF IMAGES
84-90	Books/Review RFK enshrined By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Biography; Kennedy, Robert F.; Robert Kennedy and his times (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas, Jeffrey Burke, Paul Berman, Byron Farwell, and Jeffrey T. Leeds SEE ALSO: Cinder (Book); Families (Book); Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Howard, Jane; Jones, R.V. (Reginald Victor); DeMarinis, Rick; Shosha (Book); The execution of Charles Horman: an American sacrifice (Book); The wizard war: British scientific intelligence, 1939-1945 (Book); Hauser, Thomas PDF IMAGES
95-99	Review In style: Metamorphoses of the little black dress By Jamie Wolf SEE ALSO: Batterberry, Ariane; Carter, Ernestine; Molloy, John T.; Batterberry, Michael; Mirror, mirror: a social history of fashion (Book); The changing world of fashion (Book); The woman's dress for success book (Book) PDF IMAGES
100	American miscellany/Article Easy come, easy go: From the people who bring you the best-seller list By Richard Liebmann-Smith SEE ALSO: Best sellers; Literary agents PDF IMAGES
103	Puzzle/Department Tossed salad By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES