| LETTERS | 5 |
| Why the White House Press Didn't Get the Watergate Story | 7 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 16 |
| Civility, Community, Humor: The Conservatism We Need | 18 |
| Lessard, Suzannah | |
| THE SCREWING OF THE AVERAGE MAN How Your Banker Does It | 33 |
| Dickson, Paul | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 40 |
| How He Got to Do It: Bank Charters | 41 |
| Shapiro, Walter | |
| A Democratic Vassal in King Richard's Civil Service | 48 |
| Markham, Charles | |
| 'Making It' Revisited: Nader, Podhoretz, and Morris | 57 |
| Fallows, James | |
| What Happens When America Runs Out of Leftovers | 66 |
| Weisbrod, David | |
| Grumman Couldn't Bear It: The F-14 Story | 72 |
| Yorke, Duane | |
| Beyond Boredom- A Look at What's New on the Assembly Line | 80 |
| Zwerdling, Daniel | |
| POLITICAL BOOK NOTES | 93 |
| THE POLITICAL PUZZLE | 96 |
| Barclay, John |
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