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May 1981

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Timothy Eagan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chimneys PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The great transportation conspiracy, from February 1981: Letter By David S. Potter Letter By Robert T. McVay Letter By Phil Brodeur Letter By Jonathan Kwitny On Orphans, from February 1981: Letter By Edward Terrien On Rising to rebellion, from March 1981: Letter By Thomas E. McMahon Letter By Murat W. Williams Letter By Nora Myles Letter By Tom M. Liston Letter By Maj.-Gen. Bruce E. Kendall Letter By Earl Heuer Letter By Tom Goodhart On Plato's ideal bedlam, from January 1981: Letter By Raymond Vianu Letter By Harrison J. Sheppard Letter By M.D. and Esmond Braun PDF IMAGES
8-14	The easy chair/Article The glass bead game: A shrinking future By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Congresses and conventions; Distribution (Economic theory); 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
16-21	Article To break a union: Goons give way to consultants By Steven Lagerfeld SEE ALSO: Business consultants PDF IMAGES
22-24	Washington/Article The budget can't be cut: Congress likes to spend money By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career in politics; Government spending policy; 1981-1993; Hatch, Orrin; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
25-29	Letter from abroad/Article The capital of underdevelopment: A good word for Mexico City By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Benítez, Fernando; Interviews; Mexico City (Mexico); Paz, Octavio PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article Marketing pollution: Buying and selling clean air By William Tucker SEE ALSO: Air quality; Air quality management; Standards; United States. Environmental Protection Agency PDF IMAGES
39-55	Article Silver Thursday: The Hunts break the market By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Hunt, Bunker; Knowledge—Silver trading; Prices; Rich people; Silver; Speculation; Hunt, William PDF IMAGES
56	In our time/Article Modern martyrs: No. 1 By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Editing PDF IMAGES
57-60	Article Waking up: The day they took down Stalin's picture By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Germany (East); Hungary; Agee, Joel; Revolution, 1956 PDF IMAGES
61	The mind's eye/Cartoon Robotics SEE ALSO: Robotics PDF IMAGES
62-63	Geography 105/Illustration The nuclear club By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Maps; Kidron, Michael; Nuclear weapons information; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
64-65	The public record/Article Xenophobia SEE ALSO: America globally blind, deaf, and dumb (Book); Lurie, Joseph; Xenophobia PDF IMAGES
66-68	Review Deformation of character: Broadway's avant-garde old hat By Martha Bayles SEE ALSO: Pomerance, Bernard; Motion pictures and theater; The elephant man: a play (Play) PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article Untested innovations: One step forward, two steps back By John P. Sisk SEE ALSO: Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
75-78	Books/Review Bartlett's hall of fame: A little too familiar By Diane McWhorter SEE ALSO: Beck, Emily Morison; Bartlett, John; Rackliffe, Mary; Quotations, American PDF IMAGES
79	Poem The animals in winter By George Dennison SEE ALSO: Children and animals PDF IMAGES
80-81	In print/Review Here be dragons: Two writers in search of an audience By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: A search for structure: selected essays on science, art, and history (Book); Schmidt, Arno; Smith, Cyril Stanley; Evening edged in gold (Book); From art to science: seventy-two objects illustrating the nature of discovery (Book) PDF IMAGES
82-84	American miscellany/Article Cyclical time: Reinventing the wheel By Floyd C. Stuart SEE ALSO: Cycling PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Devil's dictionary By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES