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1997

Stories Published in this Year

Out off Africa!

Lincoln and Thoreau Get Pious

Aimée and Coué Improve Your Life

1947Fifty Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

The Transistor

1947Fifty Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

The Kinsey Report

Texas Testament | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

A LIFETIME AGO A QUIET STRANGER passed through the author’s hometown and came away with a record of both personal and national importance

Can it be fair? Humane? Deter crime? These very current questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as in the day of Timothy McVeigh

He was in the vanguard of that wave of young Britons who, in the 1960s stormed our shores and gave us back our musical heritage

Early Color TV | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

In the Navy we found parts to make a color television in 1946. Anything to watch the heavyweight championship.

In Good Hands | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

I asked one of the guests to take the helm while I went to check the engine.

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