The New York Times Magazine March 31, 1974 Venus Flytrap Francis Barany Cover


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The magazine is in good condition. It is a complete copy but shows moderate signs of age and wear, corner creases, or light surface wear. The photos show the exact item you will receive. Please review all pictures for full condition details. Combined shipping is available. Each issue ships in a protective plastic sleeve.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover
Francis Barany holds a Venus flytrap. At 16, he has isolated the enzyme with which the plant digests captured insects. Hardly a typical teen-ager. Page 18.
Photograph by Jim Hamilton

6 Sunday Observer
Future past shock
By Russell Baker

10 Letters
On heroic endeavors, liberated behavior, fashionable attire, victim compensation, nuclear safety and letter picking.

13 Waiting for the end:
On nursing homes
By Susan Jacoby

16
He didn’t realize the depths of suspicion
Daniel Moynihan’s passage to India
By Bernard Weinraub

18 Parent and Child:
The special growing pains of a science whiz
Lord of the Venus flytrap
By Ted Morgan

20
Even a housing allowance is no answer to poverty
A poor man’s home is his poorhouse
By Herbert J. Gans

22
Henry Aaron finally makes it to the big time
The packaging of a home run
By Tom Buckley

72 Fashions
When you’re only 5 feet 3
By Anne-Marie Schiro

74 Design
It’s a childproof triplex
By Norma Skurka

78 Food
“Let all who are hungry come and eat”
By Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey

88 Puzzles

92 Picture Credits

94 Bridge
Defense
By Alan Truscott

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