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April 1964 Issue
April 1964 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Fantasy World of Baseball
    Jim Brosnan
  • The Rockefeller Foundation How It Operates
    Greer Williams
  • Accent on Living
    Charles W. Morton
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Hunh?
    Ray Irwin
  • Duty Free
    Scott Corbett
  • Tv Addenda
    Victor Hill
Poem

Abroad

By Richard Moore
April 1964 Issue
Saved Stories
The long winter darkness in a strange land.
Stars glitter in the dead grass.
Only the frost.
Only a million mirrors to the moon.