March 1972 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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- About This Issue, pp. 4-5
- Letters, pp. 6-9
- The Easy Chair
  John Fischer
  , pp. 10-21
  Georgia, mother of social invention
- Letter from a Lost Campaign
  Thomas Powers
  , pp. 22-31
  With Charles Evers in Mississippi
- Chile: The Dangerous Edge
  Graham Greene
  , pp. 32-38
  Foreign aggression and domestic homicide
- A Happy Death
  Albert Camus
  , pp. 39-47
  A chapter from Camus' first novel
- Kowtowing in China
  Jonathan Spence
  , pp. 48-53
  Forks or chopsticks? Handshakes or bows? There have been precedents
- Scientist as Shaman
  Malachi Martin
  , pp. 54-61
  The imaginative logic of latter-day soothsayers---Skinner, Monod, Lorenz, et al---often...
- The Imponderable Young
  Russel S. Beecher
  , pp. 62-64
  Political analysts are meeting their match in the millions of newly enfranchised voters
- Mickey Mouse in the Mountains
  Peter Browning
  , pp. 65-71
  The planned destruction of Mineral King valley
- Burial; For My Sister Molly
  Alice Walker
  , pp. 72-73
- Eight Months on Full Feed
  Vance Bourjaily
  , pp. 74-78
  The business of raising beef in the United States ignores all consideration of how the ...
- Backward and Forward With Technology
  Stacy V. Jones and Tom Hansen
  , p. 79
  Some patently foolish things
- The Sam Ervin Show
  Laurence Leamer
  , pp. 80-87
  The Senator's notions of the First Amendment and freedom of the press
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  Book: Truth and/or fairness in the news (Review)
  Nelson W. Polsby
  , pp. 88-91
  The News Twisters, by Edith Efron
  1. The News Twisters by Edith Efron
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  Books: Chester Kallman: a voice of importance (Review)
  W.H. Auden
  , pp. 92-93
  The Sense of Occasion, by Chester Kallman
  1. The Sense of Occasion by Chester Kallman
- Music in the Round
  "Discus"
  , pp. 94-98
- Cover photograph
  Terry Stevenson