June 1981
In This Issue
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Articles
Liberia
Liberians are still waiting to see whether their lot will improve under Master Sergeant Doe
M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story
Why the rifles jammed
Dad
Letters From the Country
Loitering With Intent
XPD
Railways of the Raj
Edith Sitwell
Twelve Years
Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered
The Comet Is Coming!
The Meeting at Telgte
Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
Zuckerman Unbound/Three Levels of Time/the Stolen Jew
The Atlantic Puzzler
Pakistan: A Risky Bet on General Zia
“State Department officials are worried that Reagan may be making a major change in U.S. non-proliferation policy
The Scarcity of Raw Materials
Intravenous Trip
Detroit Skyline, 1949
The Sociologist
Communion
Television: The Birth of a Media Myth
Someone seems to have miscounted in checking the roll at the electronic church
Basic Syllogism
Encounters
Meetings with King Hussein, President Carter, and President Sadat in the search for peace
A Plan for Controlling Inflation
An overnight solution is impossible, and might be disastrous if it could be achieved
The Teeth Festival
Balanchine's Tchaikovsky
Less Is Less
The Child Savers: Juvenile Justice Observed
The Pursuit of Inequality
A Question of Age
The Heyday of Natural History
