Pg… 32 Co–Ed Dorms: An Intimate Campus Revolution: Colleges Across the Country are Liberalizing Living Arrangements Among Boy and Girl Students. At Oberlin the New Arrangements are a Marked Success. Photographed by Bill Ray

Pg… 42 Ode to the Man Who Was France: The Death of General de Gaulle. By Romain Gary

Pg… 46 Ordeal on El Capitan: Climbers Spend Three Weeks o a Sheer Rock Wall

Pg… 50 The Isolation of a King: A Visit with Jordan's King Hussein After the Bloody Civil War in His Country. By Jordan Bonfante. Photographed by Pierre Boulat

Pg… 57 Who Painted Those Keane–Eyed Kids?

Pg… 58B Meet Shaky, the First Electronic Person: The Fearsome Reality of a Machine with a Mind of Its Own. By Brad Darrach

Pg… 71 Dutchman in a Box

Pg… 75 Dustin Hoffman at Age

Pg… 121 For a Part in "Little Big Man," Hoffman Puts on a Century or so with the Help of a Makeup Artist. Photographed by Ernst Haas

Pg… 4 Departments: The Presidency: De Gaulle and Three Presidents. By Hugh Sidey

Pg… 8 Departments: Gallery: A Ballet of Skates' Eggs by Nina Leen

Pg… 12–20 Departments: Reviews: Architecture Critic Walter McQuade Finds the Kennedy Center a Deadly Place for the Lively Arts

Pg… 12–20 Departments: Reviews: Harold Clarman on Lewis Mumford's Despairing Survey of Our Life with the Machine

Pg… 12–20 Departments: Reviews: "Little Fauss and Big Halsey," a Film Reviewed by Richard Schickel

Pg… 26A Departments: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 81 Departments: Parting Shots: Watch Out, Here Comes Progress