Pg… 4 The Feminine Eye: Flags in the Rain. By Shana Alexander

Pg… 8–16 Reviews: Book: "Naked in Garden Hills," by Harry Crews, Reviewed by Guy Davenport

Pg… 8–16 Reviews: Television: KQED's Newsroom, by Jack Fincher

Pg… 8–16 Reviews: Movie: "Support Your Local Sheriff," Reviewed by Richard Schickel

Pg… 22A Letters to the Editors

Pg… 24 Home to Abilene: Ceremony in Washington, a Long Journey Across the Land, and at Last Dwight David Eisenhower is Laid to Rest in the Kansas Town that Remembers Him as Its Own. By David Nevin

Pg… 36 Editorial: Choosing, or Not Choosing, Between Communists

Pg… 41 Close–Up: World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian: "The First Move I Make is Always a Good One." By Rudolph Chelminski

Pg… 50 Education: Children Want Classrooms Alive with Chaos. By Barbara Villet

Pg… 61 Fashion: "Cir?" is the Shine of the Times

Pg… 64 Frontiers: Unusual Photographs from the Icebound Sino–Soviet Battle Zone

Pg… 68 Lee Iacocca's Baby: Ford Comes Up with a Compact that Can Compete?They Hope. By William A. McWhirter

Pg… 74 'I Am Two People, Man': Comedian Bill Cosby Lost a TV Show and Gained an Empire. By Thomas B. Morgan

Pg… 86 Ideas in Houses: No. 37: Indoor–Outdoor Fieldstone in the Pennsylvania Farmlands

Pg… 93 Specail Report: Special Report: The Czechs Beat the Russians in Hockey and Celebrate with Dangerous Enthusiasm

Pg… 96 Miscellany