October 1966
In This Issue
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Articles
Nobel's Hits and Misses
“Given the impossible task of rewarding people for a service that nobody has yet discovered how to perform, the Norwegians have acquitted themselves creditably.”
Elephants
Berkeley and Freedom
The ATLANTIChere gives the floor to critics of and commentators on “The Decline of Freedom at Berkeley,” Professor Lewis Feuer’s angry adieu to the University of California in the September issue. Additional reactions, including a final comment by Professor Feuer, will appear in the November ATLANTIC.
Nevada: The End of the Casino Era
by EDWARD F. SHERMAN Since the intoxicating days of the forties and fifties when new casinos were going up every six months, Nevada has been undergoing changes that will transform it from a gambling principality to a modern welfare state. Edward F. Sherman is a Texas attorney who witnessed the process as a legal aide to Governor Grant Sawyer.
Politics, Mr. O'connor, and the Family Novel
BOOKS and MEN One of the country’s most accomplished literary historians here discusses the works of Edwin O’Connor, and in particular, his latest novel, ALL IN THE FAMILY, just published by AtlanticLittle, Brown.
The Rerun Industry
The Holiday
Holidays were all too rare for State Department people during the hectic war years. DEAN ACHESON describes an extemporized attempt to lake a day off.
Silver Lining
Children's Art
In Vinos Felicitas
Ecumenical Economy
Competitions Here and Abroad
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The War in Vietnam
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
Texas
Hungary
Washington
Consensus Politics: End of an Experiment
Robert Kennedy and the What if Game
An epic novel’s worth of intrigue and fate, hope and despair, alliance and feud has been telescoped into the life of the Democratic Party since the Kennedy-Johnson ticket was forged at the Los Angeles convention six years ago. Douglas Kiker, New York Herald Tribune White House reporter for two and a half years and now an NBC news correspondent, examines “the tangled relationship between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson,” and predicts how, why, and when the plot will thicken.
Mystery in the Countinghouse
As in his study of Republican finances in the April ATIANTIC, Mr. Pincus here examines the Democrats’ bookkeeping and comes up with some questions that are as interesting as his facts about the party’s money matters. The author has reported Washington affairs for nine years, and for three years has focused on political fund-raising and spending. He is editor of “Potomac.”the Washington POST’S Sunday magazine.
A Green-Broke Stud
An ATLANTICcontributor whose short stories and articles have appeared in many magazines, Tom Mayer now lives in Mexico, where he is working on a novel. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship last spring, he is, at the age of twenty-one, one of the youngest American authors ever selected for this honor.
Maple Fools, Miser Oaks
Second Round for Africa: Independence on Trial
A recent graduate of Stanford University, Scott Thompson is a Rhodes Scholar who took leave from Oxford to write a dissertation about Ghana. His report on the new African realism that has supplanted the false hopes and easy confidence of the first days of independence is based on two years of travel and study on the continent.
The Swiss Watch
The versatile Peter Ustinov here re-enters the pages of the ATLANTICwith another example of his talent for combining plot with character and the crinkles of a smile. The story will be included in a new collection of his short stories, THE FRONTIERS OF THE SEA,to be published next month by Atlantic - Little, Brown.
The Politics of Auto Safety
In this continuation of her intimate reports on big government at work, Mrs. Drew tells what happened when the powerful automobile industry (or so they said) collided with the officials and lawmakers suddenly bent on making automobiles safer.
