April 1978

Articles

• The Mail

  Pat Janus

• At an Inn

  Andrew Ward

• The Catch

  Daniel Mark Epstein

• The World Will Pardon My Mush

  Richard Lipez

• More News From the Thirties

  Paul Malamud

• Bob Dylan's Amateur Night

  Andrew Ward

• The Plague Dogs

• John Huston

• An Armful of Warm Girl

• Mallowan's Memoirs

• Whistle

• France Observed

• The Siege of Vicksburg

• The Young Hamilton

• The Human Factor

• Janus: A Summing Up

• Great Moments in Architecture

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Memo to the Press: They Hate You Out There

  Louis Banks

• The Editor's Page

• Rocky Mountain Country

  For refugees from industrial America, the Rocky Mountain states are the suburbs of Eden. Open spaces. Peaceful valleys. Clear, clean water. But the region also commands a huge share of the nation’s remaining mineral wealth. Coal: billions of tons lying just beneath the ground. Uranium: 95 percent of our known reserves. Oil: more of it—trapped in shale—than exists in all the Middle East. The people who live here are divided in their own minds about whether to fight for the magnificent spaciousness they still have, or to collaborate in dirtying it, mining it, and filling it up. What they decide about their future will profoundly affect the future of the whole country.

  Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner

• Immigrants: Whose Huddled Masses?

  An estimated 8 million illegal aliens now live in the United States. Can anything—should anything—be done about them?

  Elizabeth Midgley

• A Portfolio

  Ansel Adams

• Greene

  Paul Theroux

• The World of Epictetus: Reflections on Survival and Leadership

  A man could hardly feel more cock-of-thewalk than this Navy flier felt one day in 1965 when he led a “milk run” bombing raid into North Vietnam. Some eight years later, after resisting harassment, humiliation, and torture, he knew a lot more about himself, his fellow men, and the possibilities of grace and growth under pressure.

  James Bond Stockdale

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