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March 20, 1971

Featured Pick

Encounters with the Archdruid—I: A Mountain

Part 1 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.

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a reporter at large

THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE II-A VALUABLE PROTOTYPE

Gerald Jonas

fiction

Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie

John Batki