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Pg… 24 Conservative Is the Way to Sound: Candidates Everywhere are Getting Messages. Ronald Reagan: the Hottest Candidate in Either Party. By Paul O'Neil. But will Everyone Go Along? The Statisticians' Hypothetical "Average Voter" has her Doubts
Pg… 34 An Iron Law Lies Over Quebec
Pg… 36 Dick Cavett Off Camera: He is the Brightest Face on the TV Talk Show Scene. By Brad Darrach
Pg… 44 After the Flood in Genoa
Pg… 46 Dulhunty of the Outback: A Hard Man and His Troupe of Performers Rough it in the Great Empty Interior of Australia. Photographed by Basil Williams
Pg… 57 Genius on the Prowl: Nobel Prizewinner James Watson of "Double Helix" Fame Tangles with Another Enigma?Cancer. By Will Bradbury
Pg… 68 Frightful Faces for Halloween: Scary Folk Art in New England
Pg… 73 The Midi That Wouldn't Die: PARTING SHOTS Updates the Hemline Scene
Pg… 4 Departments: The Presidency: Law and Order Politics. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 8 Departments: Gallery: Swiss Children by Hans–Peter Klemenz
Pg… 10–16 Departments: Reviews: Rosalyn Drexler's Warm Appraisal of a Mary Cassatt
Pg… 10–16 Departments: Reviews: Benjamin DeMott on Charles E. Silberman's Classic Education Survey, "Crisis in the Classroom"
Pg… 10–16 Departments: Reviews: "I Never Sang for My Father," a Generation–Gap Movie Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 23 Departments: Letters to the Editors