Reflections The Solar Transition-II by Barry Commoner. REFLECTIONS about the transition to solar energy. Discusses the economic necessity to switch to renewable sources of energy, with the choice between a system based on breeder reactors or solar energy. The latter is preferred. Tells how the present use of electricity and oil is inefficient and wastes capital that...

The Air (On Television) by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town Sapelo by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about Sapelo, a coastal island off Georgia, where Pres. Jimmy Carter and his family recently spent their vacation. Sapelo got its name from a 16th century Spanish mission named after San Jose de Zapala. It covers 20,000 acres and has a year-round population of about 200. South...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Jeremy Bernstein.

The Current Cinema THE BLACK-AND-WHITE APPLE by Penelope Gilliatt.

Around City Hall Band of Brothers by Andy Logan. At a dinner on Mar. 7 the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Award was given to Victor Gotbaum for his crucial role in the city's fiscal crisis. At the dinner one of the speakers was Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the investment banking house of Lazard Freres. He was a member of...

The Talk of the Town Interpretation by Alastair Reid. Talk story about the International Association of Conference Interpreters, known by its French acronymn of AIIC. It recently held its Assembly for the first time in this country, at the United Nations Secretariat, and writer attended it. The AIIC came into existence in 1953. Before the inauguration ceremony writer spoke...

The Talk of the Town Making Things Happen by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about the Rev. Nicolas Stacey from England who talked about himself over lunch at the Algonquin. He is starting a travel service called English Church and Country Tours. American clergymen will be his recruiting agents. For every 38 people they sign up, they get 2 free trips or...

Fiction Jack Schmidt, Arts Administrator by Garrison Keillor. Jack Schmidt's business is raising funds from federal and corporate sources for artists with weird projects. He was a private-eye until Ollie, the elevator boy, tells him people aren't interested in the truth anymore; they want experiences. Tells how the budget deficit at the Twin Cities Arts Mall in...

U. S. Journal BARGAIN by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: BOISE, IDAHO about a recent rash of armed robberies, especially two that took place last Dec. at the Idaho First National Bank. The first time $14,000 was taken and the second time $22,000. Two Ada County men were picked up on suspicion: Dale Shideler, son of a retired...

Fiction Breathing Room by Larry Kaplan. A young boy named Howard has a severe asthma attack the night before his family is to attend a Bar Mitzvah in Westchester County. His mother, Beadie, and his father, Mel, attend to him all through the night. His grandmother and sister wake up. They try to force him to...

Comment by William Edgett Smith. Idi Amin Dada, the "President for Life" of Uganda, is gone, his country liberated by a force of Ugandan exiles and Regular Army units from neighboring Tanzania. Amin has disappeared, either into the northern reaches of Uganda, Libya, or Iraq. Writer lists some of Amin's crimes against humanity and his...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Seeds by David Wagoner. By night they climbed the dead sunflower stalks in my workroom...

Poetry Remains by Howard Moss. Long after the liner has been put in dry dock...

Poetry San Pietro by Joseph Brodsky. Three weeks now and the fog still clings to the white...