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Cover
Heraldry for a new-style railroad operation. The Penn Central’s monogram bears a striking resemblance to the dollar sign. And the source from which this blessing flows? Congress. Page 16.
Illustration by Michael Doret
6 Sunday Observer
Yes □ No □ Other
By Russell Baker
15 As goes Skokie
In theory, at least, this House race should have been a Republican runaway
By R. W. Apple Jr.
16 A hell of a way to run a government
The poor Penn Central was stalled. So Congress went highballing to the rescue with a locomotive labeled Special Interest Socialism
By Joseph Albright
18 Women make good cops
The only sensible way to find out whether women were suited to patrol duty, reasoned Washington’s police chief, was to put them on the streets
By Ted Morgan
32 Three faces of Harlem
The middle class, under attack for failing to “do something” about marauding blacks
The poor working class, the blacks who must live in the ghetto, coiled against attack
The underclass, released from hoping about a future, seeing every person as a potential mark
By Orde Coombs
50 From Trudeaumania to political maturity
The bachelor candidate, flower in buttonhole, used to buss girls and make them squeal
By Gerald Clark
68 Fashion
The delicate tops
By Patricia Peterson
76 Design
The waste-not, want-not art of the hooked rug
By Rita Reif
84 Food
A champagne supper for two
By Michael Smith
90 Letters
On viable alternatives to organ transplants, “elegant” variations on the vernacular and minority members in the orchestra
101 Puzzles
Picture credits, Page 110