May 1979
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Articles
The Little Aircraft
The Passionless Presidency
The trouble with Jimmy Carter’s administration
Metropolis: Supertown
The parking meters are painted red, white, and blue, symbolizing truth, justice, and the American way. The local newspaper is, of course, the Planet, and visitors to the self-proclaimed “Home Town of Superman” go away with souvenir chunks of kryptonite. In June the whole town, and all the visitors it can attract, will celebrate the Caped Wonder’s birthday.
The Generation That Won
Correction
The Editor's Page
The Seagull
Beyond Cholesterol: A New Theory on Arteriosclerosis
Arteriosclerosis is the leading cause of death in the United States, but its origin has eluded science. Now, however, some researchers believe they have isolated the chemical cause of the disease, and if they are right, simple dietary measures can do much to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Hungary: The Other Side of the Fence
She was a ten-year-old on the night when the telephone rang and a voice told her father that he was going to he arrested again. She, her sister, and her parents found refuge and then escape from Hungary during the violent Soviet suppression of November 1956. Now an American citizen, Kati Marton returns to her birthplace and tells about life today in the land of “goulash communism.”
Breaking the Rules: Congress and the Era
Corporate Star Wars: At & T vs. Ibm
Once, AT&T was “the telephone company.” And once, IBM was merely the world’s largest manufacturer of computers. But new technology has turned these two corporate giants into direct competitors in the multibillion-dollar business of “data communications.”
Cruelty
Evensong
The Battle of Alaska: Who Owns the 49th State?
“The Great Terrain Robbery" is what Alaskan developers call President Carter’s efforts to preserve America’s largest wilderness territory. Conservationists, on the other hand, view Alaska’s virgin frontier as a national resource, and want Congress to help protect it.
They Also Wait Who Stand and Serve Themselves
British to the Core
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia
Private Lives in the Imperial City
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
Only Children
Trout
I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo
Man of Nazareth
My Road to Opera: The Recollections of Boris Goldovsky as Told to Curtis Cate
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography
Secrets of the Ice Age
The First Frontier
The Language of the Night
About the New Yorker and Me
Hinduism
Mulligan Stew
The Atlantic Puzzler
