
August 1975 Issue
Features

Feature
Good News
Cancer treatments, windshield wipers that don’t squeak, and other major breakthroughs on the frontiers of science.

The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.
How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.
Columns
Tortuga’s Complaint
Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.
You Be the Judge
The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.
Records
High Mass
A famous conductor tries again with a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and this time we think he’s got it right.