May 1975
In This Issue
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Articles
When Is an Abortion Not an Abortion?
Said Defense Attorney William P. Homans, Jr.: "Although the indictment refers to the killing of a 'baby boy' no 'baby boy' ever existed." Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan remarked: "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...use your common sense."
The Weather Machine
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
Ticker Khan
The Enchanted Places
A Time to Die
Him/Her/Self
A City on a Hill
The Privilege of His Company
Mercier and Camier
The Tallest Tower
Vinegar Puss
The Galactic Club
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Brazil
Innocent Bystander: Best Worst Tv Commercials of 1975
Paying the Bill for College: The 'Private' Sector and the Public Interest
State legislatures, says the president of an embattled independent university, are wasting millions of tax dollars to provide education that is already available—and functioning at a high level of efficiencyin colleges and universities that are not beneficiaries of the public purse. Here are some thoughts on how to keep those independent schools in business and save tax money in the bargain.
Italy's Communists and Christian Democrats: Flirtation or Marriage?
I-80 Nebraska m.490-m.205
"Space Is Not Merely a Background for Events. But Possesses an Autonomous Structure."-A. Einstein
A Different Kind of Oil Pollution
To include the mighty American oil industry among the disadvantaged in our society may seem to call for a quantum flight of the imagination, but an oilman puts the case that the press and the politicians widely misunderstand and/or misrepresent the industry’s motives and problems.
Out of Reach of All the Glory
From 1927 to 1939. Wes Ferrell was a pitcher with Cleveland, the Yankees, and the Red Sox. In this interview he tells what it was like to face some of the great hitters as well as to stand in the batter’s box
Fetal Politics: The Debate on Experimenting With the Unborn
Recent laws prohibiting or restricting fetal experimentation are illogical, precipitous, and certain to increase the human suffering they seek to avoid, argue the authors. This article examines the dilemma. There follows on page 71 a report on a related issue, raised by the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin for manslaughter in connection with an abortion.
Thinking of the World as Idea
Ellington in Private
Few men so eloquently “wordy” have ever revealed so little of themselves to the world as did Duke Ellington. As some men hide behind public silence, he hid behind public phrases to build the walls around him ever higher.
The World Is Round and Other Great Ideas of Western Man
Presidential Power
Morality in Steel
Noodlin'
The Peripatetic Reviewer
