The American Legion Magazine [Volume 87, No. 2 (August 1969)]

How Important Is Missile Defense?: A Look at the ABCs Behind the Big Current Debate Over Whether We Should Have Our Own ABMs (Missiles to Knock Down Enemy Missiles in Flight) by R.B. Pitkin and Gerald L. Steibel -- A Look at Famous Swindles: A Sampling of Some of the Fanciest Con Games That Have Been Worked by Some of Our Fanciest Con Men (and Women) by David Loth -- The Problems of Pornography: How Recent Legal Decisions Opened the Doors of the Smut Industry and Saddled the Nation with "a Clear and Present Danger" by O.K. Armstrong -- The Steam-Driven Automobile in America: Seventy Years Ago, the Stanley Brothers Came Up With a Steam-Driven Auto. Others Followed. Here's an Account of Their Heyday by Lyman Nash -- Is a Cabinet-Level Department the Best Way to Protect the Consumer?: Two Sides of a National Question Pro: Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) Con: Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-N.J.) -- Editor's Corner -- Letters to the Editor -- Dateline Washington -- Veterans Newsletter -- News of the American Legion -- Life in the Outdoors -- Personal -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots