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# September 13, 1971 | Vol. 98 No. 11 September 13, 1971 |  

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Vol. 98 No. 11

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September 13th, 1971 | Vol. 98, No. 11 | U.S.

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September 13, 1971

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## Table of Contents

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[AMERICAN NOTES: The Greatest Danger](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903094,00.html)[The Nation: No Honor Among Saints](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903095,00.html)[The Nation: Commemorative Fireworks](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903096,00.html)[The Nation: Who's Lost?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903097,00.html)[The Nation: No Decent Exit from Viet Nam for the U.S](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903098,00.html)[The Nation: Taint in the Justice Department](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903099,00.html)[The Nation: The Anguish of a Yankee Gentleman](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903100,00.html)[The Nation: Scorecard on the Freeze](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903101,00.html)[The Nation: Muskie: The Longest Journey Begins](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903102,00.html)[CRIME: Taking Dirty Money](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903103,00.html)[The World: South Viet Nam: No Longer a Choice](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903104,00.html)[The World: The Making of a Loser](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903105,00.html)[INDIA: Return of the Toddy Tappers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903106,00.html)[BERLIN: End of the Short Fuse](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903107,00.html)[SWEDEN: Embarrassing Award](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903108,00.html)[NORTHERN IRELAND: Fatal Error](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903109,00.html)[The World: The Third Way](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903110,00.html)[MIDDLE EAST: The Federated Arabs](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903111,00.html)[The World: Secrets of the Harem](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903112,00.html)[CUBA: End of the Freedom Flights](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903113,00.html)[The World: Transamazonia: The Last Frontier](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903114,00.html)[Environment: Rescuing Swiss Lakes](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903123,00.html)[Environment: Delaying Nuclear Power](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903125,00.html)[Science: .. . And a Link-Up in Space](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903127,00.html)[Science: A Boost for Bevatron](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903128,00.html)[Science: Sharing the Atom ...](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903129,00.html)[Medicine: Genetics for the Community](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903121,00.html)[Medicine: The New Math of Addiction](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903122,00.html)[Medicine: Aid from an Ancient Animal](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903124,00.html)[The Press: Monday Master](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903118,00.html)[The Press: Stock-Market Racing Form](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903119,00.html)[Sport: Proof of the American Dream](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903130,00.html)[Sport: Superbawl](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903131,00.html)[Business: A Search for Equity](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903135,00.html)[Business: Labor: Dead Days on the Docks](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903136,00.html)[INDUSTRY: Cinema, Corporate Style](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903137,00.html)[Business: Plastic Loophole](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903138,00.html)[CONSUMERISM: Bird-Dogging the Bottlers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903139,00.html)[AIRLINES: Diverging on Merging](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903140,00.html)[Education: The Buses Are Running](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903116,00.html)[Education: Dividing the Cake](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903117,00.html)[Show Business: Director in a Caftan](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903120,00.html)[Music: Young Man with a Horn](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903132,00.html)[Art: The New Monuments](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903133,00.html)[Cinema: Orphans of the War](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903141,00.html)[Cinema: The Glories of Grooviness](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903142,00.html)[Cinema: Cash on the Line](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903143,00.html)[Books: The Scorpion of the North](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903144,00.html)[Books: Little Women](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903145,00.html)[Books: Goodbye to All That](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903146,00.html)[FICTION: Best Sellers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903147,00.html)[Milestones, Sep. 13, 1971](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903134,00.html)[People, Sep. 13, 1971](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903115,00.html)[A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 13, 1971](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903093,00.html)[Letters, Sep. 13, 1971](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903092,00.html)[Time Essay: POPULATION EXPLOSION: IS MAN REALLY DOOMED?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903126,00.html)


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