October 1988
In This Issue
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Articles
Bush for President
Employment is up; inflation is down; and, in what amounts to a transvaluation of values, success as a social ideal now commands prestige. Why repudiate the politics that have brought us to this felicity?
Word Histories
Word Histories
The October Almanac
Notes: An Acre of Pins
Business: Seeing Red
The mysterious moves of a nationally prominent randy manufacturer
The Big Headache
The profits to be made from nearly identical pills have inspired some of America’s most creative advertising and some of its longest-running lawsuits
Contributors
Every Tub
Dave's Depression
So Far
Directions
Dukakis for President
Self-interest, rightly understood, should lead Americans to vote for the party that believes in government, the only instrument through which we can confront an array of emerging national problems
The Abandonment
Silly Sports
Low-Season High: Taormina Is Enchanting, Especially After Everyone Else Is Gone
The Ceo Steps Down
FDR in 1941
The Life Force
Vampires, Burial, and Death
Fools' Gold
The Hollywood History of the World
The Sykaos Papers
The Supernova Story
George B. McClellan
Acrostic No. 39
The Puzzler
