| Letters | 4 |
| Comment | 7 |
| No Comment | 13 |
| The Word from Washington | 14 |
| MURDER OF THE SUNSET LIMITED | 16 |
| THE PENTAGON IN THE IVORY TOWER | 25 |
| Burkholder, Steve | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL CONTROL by feanie Wylie | 27 |
| Wylie, Jeanie | |
| THE CHANCELLOR GOES TO WASHINGTON | 30 |
| Lepkowski, Wil | |
| PORTRAITS FROM EL SALVADOR | 32 |
| Kienitz, Michael | |
| THE POSTPONED DEPRESSION | 38 |
| Lens, Sidney | |
| EVEN IN BASEBALL, THE GAME IS GIVE-BACKS | 40 |
| Jacobs, Barry | |
| APPALACHIAN ABSENTEE LANDLORDS | 42 |
| Egerton, John | |
| STRANGERS IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY | 46 |
| Sender, Henny | |
| Puzzle | 49 |
| Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry | |
| Indigenous Music | 50 |
| Hentoff, Nat | |
| Movies | 52 |
| Seitz, Michael H. | |
| The critical energy debate | 54 |
| Sanders, Scott | |
| Greeneland | 55 |
| Greene, Graham | |
| A judge's role | 57 |
| Coffin, Frank M. | |
| Beyond violence | 58 |
| Sharp, Gene | |
| Vintage Mencken | 60 |
| Galligan, Edward L. | |
| Books briefly | 61 |
| THE MART | 64 |
| THE LAST WORD ON THE WORK ETHIC | 66 |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth |
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