Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FEATURES
INCIDENT IN FORTRAN
November
1
1972
WILLIAM STAFFORD
INCIDENT IN FORTRAN
WILLIAM STAFFORD
November
1
1972
View Article Pages
FEATURES
INCIDENT IN FORTRAN
November
1
1972
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
Could He Walk on Water?
November
1972
By
Roy M. Cohn
THE CONVENTION
Making Crowds
November
1972
By
Arthur Miller
FEATURES
Checking in with Truman Capote
November
1972
By
Gerald Clarke
ARTICLES
A Few Words with the Masked Poet
November
1972
THE CONVENTION
If the Democratic Convention Was the American System in Action
November
1972
ARTICLES
Norman Mailer and the Mystery Woman
November
1972
By
Dane Proxpeale Ostriker
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
Could He Walk on Water?
November
1972
By
Roy M. Cohn
THE CONVENTION
Making Crowds
November
1972
By
Arthur Miller
FEATURES
Checking in with Truman Capote
November
1972
By
Gerald Clarke
Features
FEATURES
STUDS TERKEL
June 1988
FEATURES
CRUZ CONTROL
SEPTEMBER 2022
By
ADRIENNE WESTENFELD
American Scene
Psychedelic Punks at Home
Spring 1994
By
EVE BABITZ
WILLIAM STAFFORD
POETRY
New Letters From Thomas Jefferson
MAY 1971
By
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Features
FEATURES
The Other
DECEMBER 1980
By
Graham Greene
FEATURES
Live from Mars: New Light on the Kennedy Case
DECEMBER 1976
By
Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf
Features
New Rules for Getting Ahead
SEPTEMBER ’17
By
Lewis Lapham
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published