May 1986
In This Issue
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Articles
Success Story: Blacks in the Military
Blacks occupy more management positions in the military than in any other sector of American society.
The Marching Season
Whether Northern Ireland's Protestants will accept the recent Anglo-Irish Agreement will become apparent in the next few months
Deadwood
Great and Desperate Cures
In Search of the Trojan War
Acrostic No. 10
The Puzzler
Notes: No Parking
Amsterdam: Defining Rembrandt
Art historians are still trying to establish which paintings are by the master and which ones are not
Ulster: The Marching Season
Whether Northern Ireland’s Protestants will accept the recent Anglo-Irish Agreement will become apparent in the next few months
Washington: How Many Are Hungry?
Attention to droughts and other food crises can obscure facts about the extent and location of malnutrition
Contributors
The War We Knew: An Oral History
The Myth of America's Turn to the Right
An argument ,based on polling data ,that the conservative shift in public policy during the Reagan years has not been matched by a shift in public opinion
The Song
The White Rooster
Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce
Running Out
Halley's Comet
Shoe Crazy
Been There and Back
A Pen for Your Thoughts
Out in the Cold
The New Face of Toil
The Golden Gate
Red Dawn at Lexington
The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886
On Persephone's Island
