Saturday Review Science December 1972 Metric and 50 similar items

SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature [Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ] ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 1972; VOLUME LV, NUMBER 48; SCIENCE CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: THE Consequences of War. SR: UP FRONT: Wolves and Men By Edward Hoagland -- "Wolves epitomize the American wilderness as no other animal does," writes Edward Hoagland, who recently went to Minnesota to listen to them and howl with them. After the Red Tide By Caryl Rivers -- This fall poisonous, rust-colored algae appeared in the coastal waters of New England and caused the closing of clam flats in three states. Our reporter took the occasion to examine yet another endangered species: the clam digger. Two Fishermen By Lucian Truscott IV -- Fishing a stream in Maine, Truscott came upon a silent, almost unearthly, competitor. Cold Comfort (Animal) Farm By Paul Wohl -- The outLoor "jungle" preserve that you can drive through promises to become a fad in this country. Author Wohl describes his visit to one of these preserves -- and raises some sobering questions about their effect on the wildlife of the world. EDITORIAL: The Meaning of the Mandate By Ronald P. Kriss -- As forecast, Richard Nixon won a second term by an outsized majority. What will he do with this mandate?. SCIENCE: The Ethnogastronomy of Thanksgiving By James Deetz and Jay Anderson According to archeological findings at Plimoth Plantation, the first Thanksgiving was more fun than we thought it was. Coming of the Metric System By Frank Kendig -- With every other industrial nation in the world gone metric, the United States finally appears ready to convert. Better late than never. The Aeropleustic Art of George Pocock By Janet Graham -- How an eccentric British schoolmaster found happiness in flying kites. Resurrection in Illinois By John Ronan -- At Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown the remains of Mississippian culture are preserved, undisturbed, against the ravages of time. A Tragedy of Errors By Kenneth E. F. Watt -- The mistakes we make today are potentially more dangerous than the errors of the past. Don't Ask the Barber Whether You Need a Haircut By Daniel S. Greenberg -- Government-picked science advisers have traditionally cheered on the development of new technology. Today the fad of technology assessment reveals unhealthy ties between such experts and their pet programs. Aspirin: Good News, Bad News By Richard S. Farr -- The drug most responsible for medicine-cabinet mania is explored for side effects that its advertisements don't mention. SR: REVIEWS: BOOKS: Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years By Margaret Mead, Reviewed by Caroline Bird. Sadness By Donald Barthelme, Reviewed by John Seelye. On the Docket By 0. L. Bailey. Shorter Reviews: Licit and Illicit Drugs By Edward M. Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports. Working Through By Leonard Kriegel. Power and Innocence By Rollo May. Under an English Heaven By Donald E. Westlake. The Tooth Trip By Thomas McGuire. From the Land and Back By Curtis K. Stadtfeld. A Survey of Recent Reference Books By David M. Glixon. TRAVEL: Britain's Most Bizarre Museum By James Egan. FILMS: Intimate Epic By Arthur Knight. DANCE: Divine Clown and Other Dance Winners By Walter Terry. MUSIC: Composers Argento, Koib, Tippett, and Giuck By Irving Kolodin. GAMES: Literary Crypt. Wit Twister. Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 2016. PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ART CREDITS: Cover Robert Bausch; Ed Koren; Ted Avery; Pamela Meyer; Mark Ronsheim; Chas B. Slackman; John Ronan; John Ronan; illustrations Sandra Forrest; J. Hyatt; Robert Grossman; Bathsheba Ginsberg. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31