August 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
Green Days and Photojournalism, and the Old Man in the Room
At Life, in the halcyon days, an apprentice reporter could encounter Henry Luce in his private elevator, and wind up with Margaret Bourke-White on assignment in the jungle
Black Africa
Innocent Bystander: Going Public
Contributors
Talking Horse
Looking for Wilderness
A bear needs five square miles of wilderness in which to live. If wilderness is worth $1000 an acre, is a bear worth $3.2 million?
The Editor's Page
Toward the New Chastity
“Sexual freedom has become a burden to Women’s Liberation,” according to the author, who says that the liberated woman covertly longs for maidenhood.
Short One to the Cuckoo
The Last Laugh
North Vietnam: A Visit to a Hospital
Burns
Broken Wing Theory
Offshore
Of oil rig drillers, roustabouts, and roughnecks, and a life that resembles a cross between the Navy and a penal colony.
More on Drugs
The Voice of South America
Getting Whitey
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Under the Guns
Under the Guns
Tropical Detective
How the Government Breaks the Law
In Hiding
Magog
Report to the Commissioner
The Night of the Long Knives
Victoria's Heyday
The Restless Earth
A Sense of Place
The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English
