Pg… 18 Logjam in Our Courts: The Criminal Court System in America’s Big Cities is Buckling Under Enormous Case Loads and Outmoded Procedures. New York City is a Prime Example. Text by Dale Wittner. Drawings by Burt Silverman and David Levine Pg… 28 Racing Cars: Forty–One Million Americans Go to Tracks Each Year to Watch Superfast Cars Howl By. Photographed by Arthur Rickerby Pg… 36 Niarchor’ Island Tragedy: He Awaits the Legal Verdict Which will Clear Up the Details of His Wife’s Sudden Death Last May. By Richard B. Stolley Pg… 42 Joe Namath in the Movies: The Quarterback Makes a Pass at Ann–Margret Pg… 44 L.B.J. and the Kennedys: Why J.F.K. Really Picked Johnson as His Running Mate, How the Feud Between Johnson and Bobby Kennedy Began and How Johnson Tried to Ditch Humphrey in 1964. By Kenneth O’Donnell Pg… 58 Threatened America: Channelization: The Engineers Insist on Straightening Out Our Streams. By William Humphrey Pg… 2B Departments: The Presidency: Nixon Takes His Isolation Booth West. By Hugh Sidey Pg… 4 Departments: Gallery: Takayuki Ogawa’s “New York Is” Pg… 6–10 Departments: Reviews: Melvin Maddocks Reviews “The Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford Letters” Edited by Robert E. Spiller; “In the Highlands since Time Immemorial” by Joanna Ostrow; “Reason Awake” by Ren? Dubos; “Exiles” by Michael J. Arlen and “The Land of a Million Elephants” by Asa Baber Pg… 6–10 Departments: Reviews: “The Diary of a Mad Housewife” is Reviewed by Richard Schickel Pg… 6–10 Departments: Reviews: “The Swing Era,” Reviewed by Albert Goldman Pg… 17 Departments: Letters to the Editors Pg… 62A Departments: Parting Shots: Women’s Liberation: Bats and Battle–Axes Rise Up Against Masculine Oppressors. Text by Ann Bayer