Issue

December 1969, Volume 21, No.1


Featured Articles

Catastrophe By The Numbers

Author: Charlton Ogburn, Jr.

In terms of consumption and pollution, America is the most overpopulated nation on earth. We think we can afford it—but we are leading the world to

Field Notes

Author: Elizabeth N. Layne

Conservation Equals Survival

Author: Wallace Stegner

Wise men like Thomas Jefferson have always known how to live with the earth instead of against it. We need to develop a land ethic, with wise stewardship and a respect for the earth.

The American Land As It Was

Author: Walter Karp

The Gallantry of An “Ugly Duckling”

Author: Robert L. Vargas

Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the Stephen Hopkins could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight

There Was A Storm Outside And A Bit Of Frost Within

Author: William Manners

(when Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt) (at one of the White House’s most unfortunate house parties)

The Lower Depths Of Higher Education

Author: Morris Bishop

Do today’s turbulent college campuses make you long for the good old days? The facts may dampen your nostalgia

The Death Of A Hero

Author: James Thomas Flexner

Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived

A Wooden Parade

Author: Mary Black