August 1976
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Articles
Washington
Israeli Arabs: The Mayor of Nazareth
Farewell, My Unlovely
Trains in Trouble
Once, some 20,000 trains traversed the United States, many of them elegant hotels on wheels. Now, most of the great passenger railroads have withered and died and they have been replaced by Amtrak, which has mammoth troubles of its own. Is there any hope for a rail travel revival?
The Editor's Page
The Tryst
The Hawk of the Mind
The Rice Is Wild
The rattle of ripe grains in the canoe . . . visions of venison and wild rice.
Thinking About the Thinkable
Do not let presidential politicking fool you, says this outspoken advocate of new weapons systems and longrange arms development: the United States “is taking too long to produce the weapons necessary for maintaining the present precarious military equilibrium“ of the Soviet-American seesaw.
Crumblings
The crumblings of life are stories—tall tales and true ones, heroic and shaggy-dog ones. We don’t spin them the way we used to, complains the author, who offers the tales of Richard Clayton, balloonist; Lewis Wetzel, Indian killer; and Mother Jones, firebrand and seamstress.
To Dorothy
Francis Ford Coppola
A profile
Shoplifters
Chapter the Seventh: In Pursuit of the Wali of Fafa
Twyla Tharp
Culture Watch
The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics
Ratner's Star
Anna
Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America
The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Miss Herbert
City of the Dead
The Olympic Games
Persian Painting
The Deadly Innocents
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von Däniken
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore
Champagne and Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley's A's
Dilemmas of Masculinity
Splendors of Islam
The Creative Balance
