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1960160 pages. Features: The Sickness of our American Cities - Baltimore; The Conspiracy Against America - Excerpts of an address by Revilo P. Oliver to the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies; New York - The Freeloader's Paradise - The Empire State Becomes The Welfare State; How America Muffed Space Supremacy - we did not heed the warnings of Robert H. Goddard; Spare Parts for Human Hearts; That Athletic Second Rater-Man; Stay Away, U.S.A.; Defense Against Communism - Living Christianity is the Best; Istanbul's Grand Bazaar; The Health of the American People; 15 Years of U.N. Deceit - Agency Directed its Funds to Promote Socialism; "An Unauthorized Telegram" - How Ike let the Soviets occupy Berlin, Prague, and Vienna; The "Colorful" White House; We Lose Our U.N. Majority; The Bustling Canadian Border; Earth Poetry; Mercury Warned You; Let Them Explode; Coro Foundation - Political Bootcamp; Civil Rights; Evergreen - climate changes have resulted from deforestation and soil-depletion; Conservation - For Whom?; Greenland Today; The South Has Lessons to Teach; Wandering Children of the Sea; Olympia's Immortal Athletes; Government Office with Federal Funds; Who is Fighting the Loyalty Oath; Wild Foxes, Hoot Owls and TV; Wisconsin's New Indian County; The Honorable Sweet Potato; The Sweetest Little War; I Found the Palace of Kublai Khan; The Custom Hat; Are Fish More Important than People? - A core of doctors and dentists scientifically oppose fluoridation; Ice Cream - Delicious Dessert or Poison Potion?; The "Hollow" Man - John Cleves Symmes had strange theories about the earth's interior; and more. Minimal markings. Bottom of pate 149 removed, apparently with no loss to text. Moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
1960160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Does it Really Matter What is True?; The Orphaned Beauty - strange story behind the song Silent Night; Why Johnny Won't Re-Enlist - communist strategy includes lowering the morale of U.S. fighting men; Red Fire From the Yellow Dragon - a new world power must be reckoned with since China's Dr. Tsien fled from the U.S.; Everybody Knows That; Floating Ghost Ship - The "Baychimo" used to call on Hudson Bay Company trading posts from her home port of Vancouver, B.C.; The Stomach - Turning Point - who is tampering with the soul of America?; Escape from Torture - how John Langdon outwitted Chief Walking Buffalo; The Theatre is a Weapon of War - Melville Burke tells the story of Red infiltration of the stage and screen; Secession Day - how the South missed a big chance to win the Civil War; Restored to Favor - the "Rehabilitation" of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose security clearance was revoked by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954; It's Your Money That's Being Squandered - Keynesian liberal theorists are more powerful than ever in Washington; "Save Me From the Trading Stamps" - premiums given by merchants cost more than customers realize; Our Political Health; Conspiracy in Foreign Affairs - a brillian expose of the influences at work in shaping U.S. foreign policy, by J.M. Shea; 47 Billion $ for Defense - a frank appraisal of our national defense theories; Setback at the U.N. after the death of Dag Hammarskjold; Christmas-card Winter; Volume 93 Index (July - December 1961); and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1974Features: Paphiopedilum roebelinii - One of the Real Charmers; Orchids in a growing Guyana, South America; Orchid Records; Some observations on the Ecological Adaptations and Distribution Pattern of the East Himalayan Orchids; Mrs. Ardell Lawton's Coelogyne cristata; The Genus Mesospinidium - Collector's Item; New and rare Brazilian Rupicolous Laelias - II; Growing Orchids in British Columbia; The Second south African Orchid Conference; The Genus Pteroceras. Lovely copy with faint signs of wear. Book
1978Features: Growing Paphiopedilums in the Southwest; Propagation of Cypripedium Species from seeds; Aeranthes neoperrieri - :eprechaun from Madagascar?; Octomeria steyermarkii; Some Orchid species of Sri Lanka; Practical Problems in Conservation - a case history; Hunting wild orchids in southwestern Nova scotia; Orchid Propatation; Calanthe and Spathoglottis - Collector's Item. Some rubbing to covers, otherwise light wear. Book
1979110 pages. Features: Rhyncholaelia digbyana; New and Pleasant surprises from Madagascar; Epidendrum radicans - the Intoxicated Orchid; Pholidota imbricata - An Exquisite Orchid from Western Ghats, India; Indonesian Orchid Project; Epidendrum gravidum - Pregnancies Unlimited; What are the Needs on Orched Research?; Nephalaphyllum pulchrum var. sikkimense; Oncidium Guianense (Aubl.) Garay is the Appropriate Name for Oncidium desertorum Nash ex Withner; A Trio o Habenarias; Paphiopedilum Ali Taba - The Making of an Awarded Paph. Nice copy. Book
197596 pages. Features: Odontoglossum grande, Odm. insleayi and Odm. schlieperianum - Collector's Item; Orchid Solarium; Growing Vandas and Odontoglossums in the Midwest; Additional Chromosome Numbers in Oncidium and Allied Genera; Potting Paphiopedilums - Basic Orchid Culture - 8; The Reproductive Biology of the Epiphytic Orchids of Florida - 1. A Statement of the Problem; A survey of Paphiopedilum Composts; Catasetum Orchidglade - A Colorful New Hybrid. Lovely copy. Book
1974Features: Ten small orchids for the beginner; A Novice's Experience with Dendrobium phalaenopsis; Localities, Logic and Labels; Spiranthes acaulis and its variety picta - Collector's Item; Growing Cymbidiums in florida; Methods of Acceleration of growth and flowering in a Few species of Orchids; Dendrobium phalaenopsis Culture; Orchid Eaters of "Shangri-la". Light signs of wear. Nice copy. Book
197696 pages. Features: Endangered species Act of 1973 - (Public Law 93-205); Orchidomania - A Brief Look; Growing Orchids in a Climatic Cabinet; Coelogyne and Pleione - Collector's Item; Dendrobium Smilliae F. Muell.; Chilean Orchids; Scanning Electron Microscope Studies of Orchid Pollen; angraecum sororium; Deciduous Calanthes; India: Major Dendrobium Habitat of the World; Effects of Paphthaleneacetic acid on seed Germination; Orchids and Sphagnum. Light signs of handling. Book
1977Features: Orchids in the Sun - The Botanical Gardens of the University of Puerto Rico; Epiphytic Orchids as Parasites of their Host Trees; From Flask to Flower in a Flash; Publication Available on Conserving Fuel Usage in Glass Greenhouses with Surface-Mounted Air-Inflated Plastic; Brassavola, Rhyncholaelia, Sophronitis, Sophronitella and Leptotes - 2 - Collector's Item; Environments, Endangered Species and What We Should Do About Them; The Endemic Orchid species of Puerto Rico; Wire Baskets for Cattleyas and Other Orchids; Clonal Propagation of Phalaenopsis by Leaf Tissue Culture; Taking the Guesswork out of Watering; Pruing Cattleya seedlings and Divisions; Relativity, Sunlight and the Intergeneric Greenhouse. Heavy wear to spine crease. Moderate rubbing to covers. Else lightly worn. Book
1978Features: Some Light on Indian Liparis; breeding with the Borneo-typePhalaenopsis violacea; Phalaenopsis violacea of Malaya; Interspecific Hybridization Involving Miltoniastrum and Cebolletae sections in the Genus Oncidium; Notes on Cymbidium Culture; A New species of Aeranthes from Rhodesia - a Genus New to Africa; A Beautiful Red in the Oncidieae. Moderate wear and rubbing. Book
197684 pages. Features: Palumbina candida (Lindley) Reichenbach f. - Collector's Item; The Chondrorhyncha Alliance in Venezuela; Orchid Genera, Illustrated - 54 - Dendrochilum; Advice to an Amateur Orchid Hybridizer; statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation; Paphiopedilum curtisii; The Tiny Angraecum rutenbergianum; F.C.C.'s of 1975; Orchids in Some Protected Habitats in Assam in Eastern India; Annual Index; Book Review - Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated - Volume 6; a Useful Method for Sterilizing Potting Tools; Pecteilis gigantea. Light signs of handling. Small bits of water damage to lower corner of last few pages. Book
1974Features: Masdevallias for Outdoor Culture in Southern California - A Gripp on Growing; Dilimma of Orchids - Orchid Conservation; Conserving Fuel with "Bubble Pack"; Dendrobium brymerianum - collector's Item; Clonal Propagation of Dendrobium by Means of Node Cultures - Notes from U.C.I.; Orchids in Plastic; Zygopetalum B.G. White 'Stonehurst' and its Culture; Orchid Hunting in surinam - Orchids for the Beginner; annual index - 1974; Orchids, The Royal Family of Plants by H.s. Miner. Light to moderate signs of wear. Book
1977Features: How Cold is to cold, How Dry is Too Wet?; Paphiopedilum Maudiae; Orchids from a Conservationist's Eye; Native Bulbophyllums of India; Roof-top Orchid Gardening; Angraecopsis, Boluseilla and Tridactyle - Collector's Item; Annual Index 1977. Some rubbing and light to moderate wear. Book
1978Features: ABC of Phalaenopsis Growing; A New Phalaenopsis Species?; In Defense of Pogonia and Cleistes; The Twelve Most Important white Phalaenopsis Stud Plants; Applicability of Immunodiffusion Techniques in Detecting Cymbidium Mosaic and Odontoglossum rignspot viruses in orchids; In Search of the Corybas; Orchid Genera, Illustrated - 66 - sarochilus; The Selection and Cultivation of Orchid Book Booksellers; Who Needs a greenhouse? - or Ten small Orchids on the 43rd Parallel; Annual Index. Light wear and rubbing. Small nicks at top and bottom of cover fold. Book
1979136 Pages. Features: Galeottia into Mendoncella; Phalaenopsis amboinensis - the "Rediscovered" Species; Newer Odontonias and Vuylstekearas; The Changing Face of Orchid Plant Merchandising; Maria de Rezek - Ecuadorean Explorer; Transmission of Cymbidium Mosaic Virus through Seed Propagation in Dendrobium; New Developments in Venezuelan Cattleyas; A Few, Interesting Brassavolas; the Genus Pelatantheria. Covers modestly rubbed. Book
197592 pages. Features: Hugo Freed Awarded Orchid Digest Corporations's Highest Honour; Those Spectacular Eye-Catchers - Peppermint-striped Phalaenopsis; Sowing of ORchid Seed - Made Easy; Stenoglottis longifolia - Collector's item; Ecology of Epiphytic Orchids in west African Rain Forests; Choosing your first Orchids - Basic Orchid Culture 2. Couple of small nicks along spine. Book
197692 pages. Features: The Masdevallias of Kilometer X; Clerkmanship - the Art of Expediting Judging at an A.O.s. Orchid Show; Angraecum sororium - A New Angraecum Star; Different Phalaenopsis; Re-usable Disposables; Mormolyca, Trigonidium, cyrtidium and Cryptocentrum - Collector's Item; A Three-Dimensional Orchid terrarium. Bit of soiling to top edge. Light wear. Book
1977Features: Dendrobium loddigesii 'Malvern', CCM/AOS; A Different Greenhouse - The New Grower - 2; The Bifoliate Cattleyas of Brazil - The Granulosae; Conserving Indian Orchids; Eulophidium, Eulophia and the Former Genus Lissochilus - Collector'e Item; A Visit to Asociacion Guatemalteca de Orquideologia; The Culture of the brachypetalum Section of Paphiopedilum; Reichenbachia - Classics of Orchid Literature; Effects of Media and Supplementary Micro Element Fertilization on Growth and Chemical Composition of Cattleya. Very light wear and rubbing. Book
1978Features: Insulating a Northern Greenhouse; Some Venezuelan Endemic Orchids; Paphiopedilum Repotting and Dividing; Erythrodes, Goodyera, Haemaria and Macodes, with Anoectochilus - Collector's Item; Stomatal and Acidity Rhythms in Orchids - Practical Implications; Some Unsolved Orchid Mysteries; Malformation of Paphiopedilum Flowers apparently Due to the systemic Insecticide Temik; Several Cirrhopetalums from India and Other lands; Orchids in Gold - the Midas Touch. Moderate rubbing to covers. Two inch opening midway down cover fold. Book
1979102 pages. Anguloas of Venezuela - Orchids of Venezuela; Establishing Telipogons: An Exercise in Perseverance; Vandopsis - Lovers of the Sun; Malaysian Phalaenopsis Specialist; a Greenhouse Culture of Disa uniflora Berg. in Gothenburg; Quisqueya - A New and Endemic Genus from the Island of Hispaniola; An Introduction to the Orchid Genera of Africa - from A to Z. Some rubbing and light wear to covers. Book
1980Features: Platanthera dilatata - an Alpine Orchid; Hybridizing for Temperature Tolerance in the Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Intergenerics; What are Taxonomists - and Why are People saying those terrible things about us?; The Identification of an Unusual Paphiopedilum; Miniature Cymbidium Hybridizing - Catch as Catch Can; Bletilla Striata - A Hardy, Asiatic Orchid; Altensteinia, Bifrenaria, Chrysocycnis and Dichaea of Venezuela - Orchids of Venezuela; Introducing some Orchids of New Zealand; Indonesian Orchid species specialist - 1; Lagerara Imogene Keyes. Half inch perforation to front cover near spine extends in for approximately 10 pages. Text not affected. Else, Very good. Book
1974Features: More on Orchid Photography; Sophronitis cernua - Orchids for the connoisseur; Australian Terrestrial Orchids, Thynnid Wasps and Pseudocopulation; Kefersteinia sanguinolenta - Collector's Item; A Novice Builds a Greenhouse; Orchid Genera, Illustrated - Spathoglottis - XXXVII; The Use of Activated Charcoal in asymbiotic Seedling Culture of Paphiopedilum - Orchid Notes from U.C.I.; The Exotic angaecoms; Orchids and archaeology on the Island of Crete; Friends of the a.O.s. Fund for Education and Research, Inc.; Australian Terrestrial Orchids from Seed - II. Improvements in Techniques and further successes. Light wear and rubbing to covers. Book
