Issue Date: November 21, 1978; Volume 90 No. 11
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COVER: Worried About Money? Eliot Calamity Janeway worries about our Economic Problems -- and his own. Cover Photograph by Maureen Lambray, Economist Eliot Janeway.

ELIOT 'CALAMITY' JANEWAY: An Old Bear Who's Largely Bull by Chris Welles -- He's America's best-known economist, and for years he has been telling us how terrible things are going to become. He may be right -- and not just for us; for him, too.

SHADRACH by William Styron -- This, the author's first short story in over twenty years, proves why he is regarded as one of America's greatest writers.

SPORTS: Some Classy Passing Acts by Roy Blount Jr. -- If only Notre Dame's Jerome Heavens could pass to a receiver named Bezzi, then sportscasters could call it "Heavens to Bezzi." And that's just the beginning.

CARROLL ROSENBLOOM'S OBSESSION by Philip Taubman -- Wealth, fame, power, and the Los Angeles Rams -- the man owns them all. Yet he craves one thing more: a second Super Bowl win.

THE BUGABOOS: Skiing the Ultimate by Stephen Birnbaum -- You do it by helicopter in a remote area of British Columbia. You do it on the best powder anywhere in the world. But you don't do it unless you're an expert skier.

TEDDY KENNEDY: FLIRTING FOR PRESIDENT by Aaron Latham -- Will he or won't he run? He has campaigned in sixteen states. His strategy is clear. He knows he'd better do it now ot never. And yet he's still being coy.

FUTURE WATCH -- Weather for Sale by Edwin Diamond -- Gordon Barnes sells long-range weather predictions. This winter: colder, more snow.

POLITICS -- The Politics of Cynicism by Richard Reeves -- It's easy to be cynical about politics, to say the voter doesn't care and the individual doesn't count. Easy but also wrong. Disenchantment is not what the voters are feeling now.

MEANINGFUL FICTION ... by Joy Williams -- Praise for John Cheever's stories.
... MEANINGLESS FACTS by Daniel Laskin -- Boos for The People's Almanac #2.

MATISSE AND HIS WOMEN by Suzanne Slesin -- A new exhibition provides a look at the great artist's etchings and drawings of the female form.

FULL DISCLOSURE -- Is the Consumer Kaput? by Dan Dorfman -- If he is, 1979 will be a disaster. Plus: A new business that could kill you.

LE FRANCAIS: A Gastronomic Miracle in the Midwest by Mimi Sheraton -- The place is Wheeling, Illinois, about an hour from Chicago. The building is unprepossessing. But inside there is a French Cuisine that is better than you can get nearly anywhere.

RHODESIA: THE STORM BEFORE THE STORM by Geoffrey Norman -- Things don't improve: Ian Smith makes no headway in Washington;the guerrillas shoot down a plane and murder the survivors; whites give up and leave. But all this may be a prelude to something worse -- a bloddy tribal civil war.

PERSONAL FINANCE -- Goodies in the Tax Act by William Flanagan -- The new tax cuts may not amount to much, but some of the new law's provisions are going to be useful.
MONEY -- How to Make a Mint Fast by Andrew Tobias -- Two new mutual funds and an offer byh the Franklin Mint call forth some thoughts on the odd nature of new finacial products.
ANYTHING GOES -- Etymology by Edward Sorel.
Backstage with Esquire -- Our Man Zorro How travel editor Stephen Birnbaum made his mark covering the story on page 72.
THE RIGHT STUFF by Suzanne Slesin and Anita Leclerc -- Esquire's guide to gear and gadgets.
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