| The Smell of a Recession | 3 |
| NOTES in the NEWS | 5 |
| The Word from Washington | 11 |
| Spiro Agnew:The Word's the Thing | 14 |
| WITCOVER, JULES | |
| Shaping Up CBS:A Case Study in Intimidation | 18 |
| Knoll, Erwin | |
| SUMMER A Time for Perspective | 22 |
| Borland, Hal | |
| JAPAN:the Old Gang Is Back | 25 |
| FREED, JEFFREY P. | |
| The Great Drug Education Hoax | 30 |
| D., SEYMOUR HALLECK, M. | |
| HEAD-PICS | 34 |
| SAYRE, NORA | |
| THE PEOPLE'S FORUM | 36 |
| Goodbye to Tom Wolfe | 39 |
| McCann, William | |
| Taking the Lid Off | 40 |
| Nabokov, Peter | |
| From Tube to Book | 42 |
| Werner, Alfred |
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