July 1983 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Letters to the Editor, pp. 4-9
- Military Spending: Are We Falling Behind the Soviets?
  Franklyn D. Holzman
  , pp. 10-17
- Demographics: An Epidemic of Publicity
  Jo Ann S. Putnam-Scholes
  , pp. 18-19
- Peking: Trying to Make China Work
  Ross Terrill
  , pp. 20-30
- The Ordeal of Kenneth Adelman
  James Fallows
  , pp. 31-59
  Conservatives and liberals battle over the future of the Arms Control and Disarmament A...
- The Declining Middle
  Bob Kuttner
  , pp. 60-68
  As the base of the economy shifts from manufacturing to high-techology and service indu...
- The Difficult Marriage
  Donald Hall
  , pp. 69-72
- First Encounters
  Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  , p. 73
  Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Adams
- Horace and Margaret's Fifty-Seond
  Charles Baxter
  , pp. 74-76
  A short story
- Ibis
  Harvey Oxenhorn
  , pp. 77-79
- The Future of Water
  Peter Rogers
  , pp. 80-92
  An argument that we have the engineering and management skills to reverse the depletion...
- The List of the Mohicans
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , pp. 93-95
  Lists generate lists, and then where are you?
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  Books/Free to Argue (3 Reviews)
  Robert Lekachman
  , pp. 96-99
  Bright Promises, Dismal Performance, by Milton Friedman
  1. Bright Promises, Dismal Performance by Milton Friedman
  2. Economics from the Heart by Paul Samuelson
  3. The Truth About Supply-Side Economics by Michael K. Evans
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  Books/Trekking to the Void (Review)
  Martin Amis
  , pp. 100-103
  A Journey in Ladakh, by Andrew Harvey
  1. A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
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  Books/Arg and Ardor (Review)
  James Atlas
  , pp. 104-106
  Turgenev's Letters, by A.V. Knowles and Ivan Turgenev
  1. Turgenev's Letters by A.V. Knowles and Ivan Turgenev
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  Short Reviews (10 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 107-111
  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. I, by William Manchester
  1. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. I by William Manchester
  2. Whose Little Boy Are You? by Heywood Hale Broun
  3. A Bitter Fog by Carol Van Strum
  4. The Dog Book by Jerrold Mundis
  5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  6. The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Lainez
  7. A Private View by Irene Mayer Selznick
  8. Gusliar Wonders by Kirill Bulychev
  9. A Greater Good by Robert B. Zevin
  10. The Price of Power by Seymour M. Hersh
- The Atlantic Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , pp. 112-114
- Cover illustration
  Robert Grossman