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5 picks · 1960–1988

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AuH2O
profiles ·

PROFILE of former Republican presidential candidate & Arizona senator Barry Goldwater... Officially retired since January of 1987--after being a Republican…

THE LAST PLUM
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the 12-day flight around the world on one tank of gas, which will be taken by the Voyager in September. Last Feb. writer went to …

AEROBATS
profiles ·

PROFILE of Stanley J. Segalla, of Canaan, Connecticut, 59 years old, who is an aviation acrobat or aerobat, by avocation. He earns his living as a …

The Great and Terrible Wilderness-I
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Sinai and the writer's visit there in 1978. The Sinai is more a wilderness than a desert. The Sinai triangle covers 23,500 …

It'll Be A Joke
fiction ·

When the writer was 12, in 1944, he & his family spent the summer, as usual, at the Grove, a small Massachusetts lakeshore colony. His father thought it …