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The article presents a collection of quotations on conduct of life. One such quotation by U.S. humorist Mark Twain states that it usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The article focuses on the book "Here and Now," by Herbert Lawrence Block. This book has the same attraction for a lot of people that a coffee cup has for cigarette ashes, the ideal place to dump any kind of decision. The book gives a picture of an Administration in which whatever the state of the defenses against possible foreign aggressors, the American Government has probably never been so firmly on guard against Americans.

This article focuses on civil liberties. There is no doubt that the situation with respect to civil liberties is better than it was two or three years ago, but not enough better to justify in easing up in their defense. Arthur Sulzberger, president of the journal "New York Times," lately said that he believes in security, both internal and external, but he does not believe that one should lose the sense of proportion, and the sense of history and tradition, in the efforts to protect oneself. Fear one might be able not to conquer, but to reduce by a spread of common sense. Many representatives of the extreme Right, not all, but a good many seem to be more afraid of the 23,000 Communists than of the hundreds of millions overseas.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article on mutual funds in the issue previous to July 15, 1956.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles on mutual funds in previous issues including one commending "Forbes" magazine for its presentation on mutual funds, another expressing his agreement with the superiority of the management of the best mutual funds than many brokerage firms, and another one thanking the magazine for publishing report on the funds market.

Presents an excerpt of the author's remarks in accepting the 1953 Authors Guild Award.

Presents views of the author on whom he is intending to vote in the coming U.S. presidential election. Intentions of the author to support U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the election; Hope expressed by the author that Roosevelt may do something for the development of the country; Plans of the author to prevent a Republican victory in the election.

The article presents the excerpts from a broadcast from ABC on December 29, 1952. The broadcast refer to the investigations made by the Congressional Committees whether the students are influenced by the Communism. There is no academic freedom to students of the colleges and universities to expresses their views in favor of the Communalism. The McCarran committee defined the academic freedom as something under which a very large number of U.S. college and Universities students permit the employment of men who are subversive in their activities.

A letter to the editor about an article on investing in mutual funds is presented.

The article presents the author's experience of living in his hometown, Aurora, Indiana. He states that his hometown was basically the creation of two families, the Holmans from Kentucky and the Gaffs from Pennsylvania. He did not know anything about Indiana until he studied at Franklin College. He knows that the people in Aurora have a river culture.

Presents letters to the editor referencing to articles and topics discussed in previous issues of the periodical "National Review." Analysis of the Alaska Mental Health Act; "Foreign Trends," which focused on the murder of Polish officers at Katyn in Russia; Comment concerning Archbishop Makarios.