Pg… 4 Editorials: Fair Challenge to Redistricting

Pg… 4 Editorials: American Virtue as Seen at 90

Pg… 8 LIFE Review: Book: A Mother Who Would have Scared Off Oedipus (A Mother's Kisses, by Bruce Jay Friedman).

Pg… 8 LIFE Review: Book Jacket: How to Tell a Novel by Its Cover. By M. J. Arlen

Pg… 8 LIFE Review: Movie: High Noon on the Spanish Border (Behold a Pale Horse, with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn). Reviewed by Richard Schickel

Pg… 15 The View from Here: Uneasy Conscience at a County Fair. By Loudon Wainwright

Pg… 19 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 20 The Bombing of Cyprus: Jets Swoop in from Turkey. The Impact of Intervention on the Island's Back–Alley War. By Timothy Green

Pg… 26 Vietnam: Build–Up on the Border: The South Vietnamese Dig in for an Invasion from the North After the U.S. Takes Direct Action Against North Vietnam's Navy

Pg… 32 Items in the News

Pg… 39 Terry Southern vs. Smugness: Close–Up of a Controversial Author with a Mission to Astonish

Pg… 46 Survival Centers for Animals: Zoos Make a Last–Ditch Effort to Save Rare Breeds from Extinction. But Playing Cupid to Animals is a Tough Problem. By Patricia Hunt

Pg… 54B TV's Year of the Monster: The Fall Season will Bring Fiends Galore

Pg… 62 The Man Who Is President?Part II: How L.B.J.'s Family Amassed Its Fortune. By Keith Wheeler and William Lambert

Pg… 75 An Ant on a Leash: And Comedian Woody Allen is on the Other End

Pg… 80 Great Dinners, Part 8: How to Broil Fowl on a Spit

Pg… 86 Miscellany: A Signal Lack of Success