Issue

October/November 1984, Volume 35, No.6


Featured Articles

Cantaloupes And Atom Bombs

Author: David Brinkley

Four More Years

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Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.

A Passion In Miniature

Author: Carol Mcd. Wallace

Peter Marié, a bon vivant of the Gilded Age, asked hundreds of Society’s prettiest women to allow themselves to be painted for him alone

The Photo Birdman

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While the Wright Brothers experimented at Kitty Hawk, a photographer named William Jennings believed he and his friends were making aviation history

The State Of Medical Care, 1984

Author: Oliver E. Allen

Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.