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
An Anniversary
Author:
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