TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
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ISSUE DATE: OCTOBER 1972; September 30, 1972; VOLUME LV, NUMBER 40
PREMIERE ISSUE: SCIENCE
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SR/UP FRONT:
Watching Munich By Herbert Gold -- Like most of us, novelist Herbert Gold watched television to follow the recent tragic events at Olympic Village. Here he sets down his immedtate reactions to the massacre of the eleven Israeli athletes and to the "atrocious theater" created by Olympic officials.
Nixon or McGovern? The Machinists Decide By Robert Kuttner -- On Labor Day 1,800 delegates representing some 900,000 members of the International Association of Machinists met in Los Angeles. The purpose of the convention was to discuss union business, but off the floor the subject was politics. President Nixon had declined to address the machinists; George McGovern showed up.
Dial A Shoulder By Mike Jahn -- "At any time, night or day, Dial-A-Shoulder will bring you a voice that is understanding. And you can talk about anything, from how to get to City Hall to why you should step back from the ledge and go on living."
The Harlem Boys of Summer By Barry Tarshis -- In the playgrounds of Harlem basketball seems more religious ritual than game.
But some blacks are beginning to question whether achievement in sports can lead their young out of the ghetto.
EDITORIAL: A Guide to Scouts and Scouting By Alfred Meyer -- The people we call scientists are a special breed of explorer scout.

SCIENCE:
Bright Lad and the One-Eyed Anarchist By Bruce Wallace -- A fable of our times involving science / knowledge, and the well-being of society.
Death of the Tsavo Elephants By Daphne Sheldrick -- Premature death is evidently essential to the natural rhythms of this elephant-dominated park in Kenya.
The Tyranny of Qwerty By Charles Lekberg -- In an efficiency-minded society it is startling how backward our standard typewriter keyboard is, particularly when a greatly superior alternative has been around for years.
David and Indifference By Daniel S. Greenberg -- What is the significance of the President's choosing an industry man, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., as his science adviser? And how is David doing?
Ripping Off the Past By Stephen Williams -- Museums and murderers make strange bedfellows, indeed, but this relationship has flourished as the black market in antiquities has grown.
The Anatomy of Melancholy -- By David Elkind and J. Herbert Hamsher The widespread but low-profile disease called depression was recently a factor in national politics. Its etiology is still obscure, though its treatment is relatively successful.
Farming the Amazon: The Devastation Technique By Alan Anderson -- Brazilians nourish high hopes for colonizing vast reaches of the Amazon Basin. The question is: Will their efforts produce a land of milk and honey or a sterile desert? On the Road By Toby Molenaar -- Esprit de corps is the rule among the builders of the ambitious Transamazonica Highway, and optimism suffuses the road's backers.
SR/Science Update -- It now appears a major step in the direction of producing test-tube babies has been initiated.

SR/REVIEWS:
BOOKS:
The Great Bridge By David McCullough, Reviewed by Justin Kaplan.
The Roots of Coincidence By Arthur Koestler, Victorian Inventions By Leonard de Vries, Reviewed by Eliot Fremont-Smith.
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943 -- 1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright By Steven Millhauser, Museums and Women and Other Stories By John Updike, Reviewed by Joseph Kanon.
On the Docket By 0. L. Bailey.
The Ardrey Gore Legacy By Edward Gorey.
Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand By Pin Thomas, Reviewed by J. D. O'Hare.
MUSIC: Jazz Report By Stanley Dance.
FILMS: Dirty Movies By Arthur Knight.
DANCE: The Fans Were Ecstatic! By Walter Terry.
TRAVEL: Bleak Beauty: Dartmoor By Roy Bongartz.
GAMES:
Wit Twister.
Literary Crypt.
Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 2008.
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ART CREDITS: Cover illustration by Marvin Mattelson, photograph of fresco from Chichen Itza, Mexico, courtesy of Carnegie Institution and Peabody Museum; illustrations by Randall Enos; Marvin Mattelson; Simon Trevor; Neil Shakery; Ian Graham, courtesy of Peabody Museum; bottom drawing by A. Teheda, illustrations by Frank Ansley; Manchete Press Agency; Toby Molenaar; Ken Kay; Joyce Dopkeen; drawing by Edward Gorey; Alex Gotfryd; Loralyn Baker; Louis Peres.

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