NATION Nation: BUILD, BABY, BUILD: WHY THE SUMMER WAS QUIET (The Nation) Nation: RANSOM FOR A U.S. AMBASSADOR (The Nation) The Administration: Money Matters (The Nation / THE ADMINISTRATION) Nation: KEEPING UP THE PRESIDENTIAL PAYMENTS (The Nation) Nation: KENNEDY: RECKONING DEFERRED (The Nation) Poverty: Feud in the Hills (The Nation / POVERTY) WORLD World: THE LEGACY OF HO CHI MINH (The World) World: The Heirs-Apparent (The World) The War: Blowing the Whistle (The World / THE WAR) World: MIDDLE EAST: NO CLOSER TO UNITY (The World) World: Can the Hijackers Be Halted? (The World) World: TEXTBOOK COUP IN A DESERT KINGDOM (The World) Ghana: Friday's Child (The World / GHANA) Brazil: Camouflaging the Braid (The World / BRAZIL) West Germany: The Fuhrer's Master Builder (The World / WEST GERMANY) SCIENCE Nuclear Physics: The Track of the Quark (NUCLEAR PHYSICS) Marine Biology: Plague in the Sea (MARINE BIOLOGY) The Cities: A Failure Everywhere (Environment / THE CITIES) Noise: The Exuberant Beetles of Brazil (Environment / NOISE) Pollution: Interior Gets Tougher (Environment / POLLUTION) HEALTH & MEDICINE Contraception: Safety of the Pill (Medicine / CONTRACEPTION) Metabolic Diseases: How to Detect A Faulty Gene (Medicine / METABOLIC DISEASES) SOCIETY Personality: The President's Analyst (Behavior / PERSONALITY) Sex: Brief Is Best (Behavior / SEX) Frustrations: Guerrilla War Against Computers (Modern Living / FRUSTRATIONS) PRESS Columnists: The Tenacious Muckraker (The Press / COLUMNISTS) The Press: The Aggressive Inheritor (The Press) RELIGION Religion: Death in the Wilderness Religion: A Life on the Brink Episcopalians: A Commitment to Battle (EPISCOPALIANS) BUSINESS Business: NIXON'S SURPRISE CALL FOR MILDER TAX REFORM Banking: Carefree Collapse (BANKING) Commodities: The Wheat Price War (COMMODITIES) Business: THE GAPS IN ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE Transportation: Barges That Cross the Ocean (TRANSPORTATION) France: Strategy for Stability (FRANCE) EDUCATION Education: Prospects for Peace, Plans for Defense ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Television: Sep. 12, 1969 (Time Listings) Specials: Improving the Species (Television / SPECIALS) The Industry: NATO v. TheMonster (Television / THE INDUSTRY) Art: A Revelation from Old Russia (Art) Music: Poet's Return: It's What I Do (Music) Music: Sons of Bethel (Music) New Movies: Two Dead Spirits Out of Three (Cinema / NEW MOVIES) Directors: Petronius, 20%; Fellini, 80% (Cinema / DIRECTORS) Books: Family + Fauna X 2 (Books) Books: Croutons in the Soup (Books) Books: Shear Drama (Books) Books: Crabwise Toward Death (Books) Books: Vaulting Ambition (Books) MILESTONES Milestones: Sep. 12, 1969 PEOPLE People: Sep. 12, 1969 TO OUR READERS A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 12, 1969 (A Letter From The Publisher) LETTERS Letters: Sep. 12, 1969