The American Legion Magazine [Volume 91, No. 4 (October 1971)]

Cover by Bob Clarke -- Our Looming Electric Power Shortage: Time Is Running Out on Us to Face Up to What Must Be Done to Provide the Electrical Power We'll Soon Need to Avoid a Complex Web of Disasters by Jerry Pournelle Ph.D. -- What's Behind Ping Pong Diplomacy?: A Look Below the Surface of the Announced Red China Visit of President Nixon, and What Led to It by Leavitt A. Knight, Jr -- Should Congress Ban "Obscenity" from the Mail?: Two Sides of a National Question: Pro: Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss) Con: Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill) -- Our Most Underrated President: James K. Polk: An Account of the Life of Our "Forgotten" 11th President, Whose Impact on the United States Was Enormous by Peggy Robbins -- The American Legion's 53rd National Convention: Sixteen Pages of Text and Photos of the American Legion's National Convention in Houston, Texas, August 27-September 2 -- Letters to the Editor -- Dateline Washington -- Life in the Outdoors -- Personal -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots