April 1971
In This Issue
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Articles
The Peripatetic Reviewer
To Atalanta
Elephant Bangs Train
Crazy Sundays
The Abortion
American in Disguise
The Invisible Swords
Imperial Masquerade
Time Was
Rat Race
The Nympho and Other Maniacs
Bound to Violence
The Crossing
The Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book
Stilwell and the American Experience in China
Innocent Bystander: A Middle-Aged Declaration of Independence
Searching for the "Perfect" University President
During the past twelve months more than 170 colleges and universities have chosen new presidents, including two men who failed to survive even their first year in office. As of February this year, at least 112 schools were still looking for a chief executive; Harvard had finally concluded its infinitely publicized search for Nathan Pusey’s replacement; and tiny Franconia College, in New Hampshire, had observed its first six months under the leadership of twenty-four-year-old Leonard Botstein, certainly the youngest, if not the best known, presidential appointee of the year.
The Editor's Page
A Guaniamo Diamond Miner Is Nobody's Best Friend: The Bad Life in the Venezuelan Jungle
Washington
The Orr Effect
How a twenty-three-year-old ice-skating genius helped to revolutionize his sport, double the size of theNational Hockey League, bring television to rinkside, and enlarge the paychecks of hockey’s neglected professionals.
One Out of Many
Not Lost in the Stars
Attempt
Freud Without Warts--or Anything Else
The Real Thing
On Fracturing the Funny Bone
