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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Cover:
“No Room at the Inn,” an excerpt from Tutto Esaurito (“No Vacancies”), a visual retelling of the Christmas story by R. O. Blechman, continued on Page 8. -
4 Sunday Observer
Glad tidings
By Russell Baker -
6 The gang in the red berets
Scouting struggles against declining interest, with such departures as a coed city wildlife for boys and sexual stereotypes for girls.
By Chip McGrath -
10 Should we play dirty tricks in the world?
Cobra poison and assassination plots notwithstanding, the problem is not of a monster C.I.A. run amok. It is whether the U.S. wants and needs the capacity to perform covert operations abroad. And if so, under what controls?
By Leslie H. Gelb -
20 Letters
On city dwellers, Jewish voters, museum benefactors, airplane noises, turkey wings and universal realities. -
24 “Gonna be so big. Gonna be a star. Watch me now!”
So sings Patti Smith, legitimate poet turned rock artist. She has lived; her lyrics show scar tissue.
By Tony Hiss and David McClelland -
34 Not with a bang but a pffff?
Aerosol sprays may be destroying ozone, O₃, the atmospheric layer that protects us from the sun’s lethal rays.
By Lee Edson -
40 Fashion: Ski suits
The lean look -
42 Design: Ski house
A place to park the parkas -
50 Food: Après ski
Hot soup!
By Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey -
61 Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 38 -
63 Endpaper
Pogo’s Christmas reunion
By Selby Kelly -
Picture credits, Page 46



