December 1974
In This Issue
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Articles
Lloyd Bentsen: Can Another Texan Apply?
A "cool cat" from Texas seeks out the Democratic nomination
Badlands Revisited: A 1974 Memoir of Murderous Days in Nebraska
Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate left behind a trail of corpses—and an astonished nation—behind them as they roamed through Nebraska in the winter of 1958. They were an aberration, a pathological quirk in an otherwise rational world. Or were they?
On a Photograph by Emmet Gowin
Moses & Memories
Seeing Through Art
The View From the Chinaberry Tree
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Madrid Codices of Leonardo Da Vinci
The Unknown Leonardo
Myron
Helter Skelter
Henry Moore Drawings
Henry Moore Drawings
My Life and My Films
Archaeology by Experiment
Guilty Pleasures
The Civil War: A Narrative Vol. Iii
I Am a Memory Come Alive
Kafka's Other Trial
If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade
The Auto Industry
Party of One: Show Me the Way to Go Home
The Editor's Page
The Russians Mean Business... About Business
That the sweet smell of détente can leave a bitter aftertaste should not come as news, writes reporter Smith from Moscow. The Russians have been trading shrewdly with the West since before the discovery of America.
Happy
"Who Killed Harry Gleason?"
Lawyers may not serve on American juries, and jurors may not ask lawyer-like questions. “Most lawyers would rather have juries grope in the dark than exercise an independent judgment,” says the author, after serving on the jury of “a typical New York murder” trial. So the “truth” must be discerned on the basis of selected and conflicting evidence.
Japan
The Art of History Painting
Before Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, the genre was dedicated to the good, the ideal; it now encompasses the bad and the beautiful.
The New Blast-Furnace in the Kemerovo Metallurgical Combine
Walter Mondale: Has He Ever Been Tested?
The 1976 Democratic nomination for President is up for grabs. The field is getting crowded. This month The Atlantic profiles three early hopefuls—Senators Mondale and Bentsen and Congressman Udall. Examinations of other aspiring tenants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will follow in subsequent issues.
Morris Udall: Can a Congressman From a Small State Out West...?
The Oklahoma and Western
