| In Praise of the Property Tax | 2 |
| Gaffney, Mason | |
| Peril of the Month: Gas Supertankers | 7 |
| Ingram, Timothy H. | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 14 |
| So Hard to Remember, So Easy to Forget | 15 |
| Paddock, William and Elizabeth | |
| The First Four Years | 23 |
| Editor, The | |
| DIA: Intelligence to Please | 26 |
| McGarvey, Patrick J. | |
| The Prince and His Courtiers: at the White House, the Kremlin, and the Reichschancellery | 30 |
| Peters, Russell Baker and Charles | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 40 |
| America the Featherbedded | 41 |
| Lessard, Suzannah | |
| We're All Working for the Penn Central | 44 |
| Branch, Taylor | |
| Let Those Hillbillies Go Get Shot | 52 |
| Lessard, Suzannah | |
| The Burn Ward | 59 |
| Glasser, Ronald J. | |
| THE POLITICAL PUZZLE | 70 |
| Barclay, John | |
| POLITICAL BOOK NOTES | 71 |
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