June/July 1980

The Ordeal of Robert Hutchings Goddard

SAVING FACE

The first transcontinental auto trip began with a casual wager and ended sixty-five bone-jarring days later

The mob was at the palace gates; her husband was already a prisoner; the servants were stealing imperial treasures before her eyes; Empress Eugénie turned to the one man in France she could trust—Dr. Thomas W. Evans of Lancaster, Pa.

For more than a century, the august members of this San Francisco body have enjoyed a unique, all-male midsummer night’s dream

A Texas Pioneer’s Unusual Gift to His City

The safest, fastest, most convivial operation in the annals of espionage

A trooper’s firsthand account of an adventure with the
Indian-fighting army in the American Southwest

His newly discovered diary reveals how the President saw the conference that ushered in the Cold War