In the May Atlantic

Flaming Arrows to the Sky

by Undersecretary of State George W. Ball

One of the closest friends and partners of the late Adlai Stevenson tells in a revealing memoir of the personal and political growth of the most successful unsuccessful politician of the age.

The Great Comet ol 1965 by Owen Gingerich

A Harvard astronomer argues that the Comet Ikeya-Seki may be a fiery remnant of an ancient giant that also produced the greatest comet of the nineteenth century.

When i Draw the Lord He’ll Be a Real Big Man

by Robert Coles, M.D.

In the hands of a brilliant young psychiatrist, the drawings of small children, both white and Negro, in racially troubled Southern communities reflect the distortions, real as well as imagined, of the adult world around them.

The ^ ouiig Poets

The Atlantic’s twice-yearly selection from the work of promising though largely unpublished writers, including poems by David Cheshire, Helen Chasin, Sam Toperoff, and H. J. Flavin.

The Atlantic Extra

DEATH OF THE

SWEET WATERS

by Donald E. Carr

An important analysis of a problem vital to the health and welfaie of every American: the systematic pollution, private and public, of our drinking water and water preserves, and the political forces that have blocked proposals for realistic reform.