Description
Contents: The view from the Castle: Secretary Ripley’s comments, Letters to the Editor, November events at the Smithsonian, Around the Mall and beyond by Edwards Park, Phenomena, Comments and Notes, Picture credits, Afghanistan: the pride, faith and self-sufficiency of a people whose spirit remains unconquered., African wild dogs break many rules of animal societies, including reversing male and female roles., Life for the collecting Kovels is a bowl of treasures., Grant Wood’s masterpiece, American Gothic, painted 50 years ago, has become a symbol of the nation’s life., Scholars at Tulane are building an archive on jazz., In reinventing small airplanes, less can be more., Hope Ryden, naturalist and documentary film maker, spends months in the field trying to save mustangs and coyotes., Treasures from the age of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon go on a tour of the United States., Waste equals grist for the mill as Swiss take up recycling., Luis Barragan and the architecture of space and silence., Ronnie Biggs, one of the gang that pulled off Britain’s great mail-train robbery, is living it up in Brazil., Fire may burn but Yellowstone’s mud pots bubble., “Phys/phren,” or why not to take one another at face value.
Issue: November 1980
Condition: Very Good