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TABLE OF CONTENTS
55 Extra! Two Hundred Years of Dubious Achievements
Why is this nation still smiling?
58 Esquire’s Dubious Achievement Awards for 1975
The dumbest year yet
66 What I Saw at the Abortion — Richard Selzer
A stirring—the liberal-minded doctor is troubled
68 Bums
Graphic proof: There but for fortune go you and I
74 Pauline Kael Doesn’t Speak to John Simon.
John Simon Doesn’t Speak to Judith Crist.
Judith Crist Doesn’t Speak to Rex Reed.
Rex Reed Doesn’t Speak to Anyone — Helen Dudar
How come?
80 A Russian Notebook — Robert G. Kaiser
What are those people like, what are they really like?
82 Downtown
Whatever it is, it’s not like the song says
Photographed by Snowdon
90 I’m Not Wild About Harry — Garry Wills
Plainly speaking, Nuts!
96 How To Make Your Car Last Twenty Years — Wade A. Hoyt
No big deal—just do what the man tells you
100 Bloodshed — Cynthia Ozick
Man of the world vs. the man of God
102 Esquire Holiday Feast:
A New York Dream Dinner — Roy Andries de Groot
The sumptuous event of the season
109 Staying Put in Verona — Richard Joseph
Taking precise aim on a fabulous vacation
114 Paper Plimpton — Clark Whelton
So you want to be a professional amateur?
118 1976 Resort Wear: From Fashionably Footloose to Comfortably Correct
Winter resort wear for beach and boat
Where to buy it: page 16
8 Arnold Gingrich — Tom Wolfe rebuts a stubborn rumor
13 Roger Kahn: Sports — Supercoach Fred Shero of the Flyers
19 Jean Stafford: Books — The Adams letters: a perfect love story
26 Backstage with Esquire
30 Alexander Cockburn: Crime — On the absolute necessity of finks and stoolies
32 John Gregory Dunne: The Coast — A few brief encounters in Vegas
34 Richard Joseph: Travel Notes — Sunny Italy for this, the coldest of months
38 Timothy Crouse: Washington — Congress keeps watch on the C.I.A. (sort of)
48 Nora Ephron: Media — How Barney Collier is rotten to the press corps
52 Sound and Fury
128 Auberon Waugh: Letter from Europe — Vice in the Low Countries
Poetry: pages 50, 150
Picture Credits: page 134