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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

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? Does it 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.

Grab the Wheel, Bull | 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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