| Letters | 4 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 5 |
| socialized Medicine: One Patient's Story | 8 |
| Toynbee, Polly | |
| the political puzzle | 27 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Bert Lance, the Press, and Company Planes | 28 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| Memo of the Month | 33 |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 34 |
| How the Conglomerates get Free Money From the Navy | 36 |
| Winslow, John F. | |
| Where to Eat in Washington | 39 |
| Merrill, Jill | |
| Who's Who in the Carter Administration | 43 |
| How the Race for House Majority Leader Was Won by Onme Vote | 46 |
| Peabody, Bruce 1. Oppenheimer and Robert L. | |
| Richaid Reeves on Political Books | 57 |
| political book notes | 59 |
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