Comment Comment, Part II by Jervis Anderson. More than 75 years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded, at the Cooper Union, and its headquarters have remained in the city ever since. Tells about the organization and how it expanded and moved several times. As rent in Manhattan proved too high they...

Profiles II-SEARCHING FOR GREGORIAN by Philip Hamburger. PROFILE of Vartan Gregorian, president of the N.Y. Public Library. He is a phenomenon who leaves behind him as he whirls through N.Y. a heightened sense that while knowledge is power, knowledge itself is the primary goal. He came to the library in 1981. Writer talked to a number of...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction Favor by Elizabeth Tallent. Sam and his wife, Jenny, live in the country. Sam spends a lot of time with his next door neighbor, old man Sandoval, who's a miser. Jenny is a painter, and Sam's a carpenter. Jenny's upset that Sam is next door so much when he should be working on repairs...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the nuclear age, human survival has, for the first time in history, been made a feat of human competence-has become as secure only as the fail-safe machines that hold our nuclear arsenals in check. It was hard not to give a thought to this new circumstance when...

The Talk of the Town Commissioner by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about New York City's new health commissioner, Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, who will be sworn in on May 5th. Writer paid him a visit at his headquarters on 125 Worth Street, which he moved into on a half-time basis last month: afternoons there & mornings at UNICEF...

The Talk of the Town Spinet by Timothy Crouse. Talk story about person who's in his apartment trying to read a not very difficult book, but can't concentrate because the apartment's so cluttered. He decides to give away many objects, including a spinet, which he gives to his next door neighbor, a lawyer named Martha. Writer likes the way...

The Theatre NO DEAL by Brendan Gill.

The Current Cinema LOST SOULS by Pauline Kael.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents A JOURNEY TO ARGENTINA by John Kenneth Galbraith. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about writer's visit to Argentina to investigate its economy. He & his wife were guests of the Arutro Illia Foundation, an Argentine scholarly organization. Argentina, one of the most richly endowed countries of the world, has had an ostentatiously mismanaged economy at least until lately. The...

Fiction In Family by Alice Mattison. Jack takes his daughter Stephanie, age 10, to visit his grandmother in a nursing home in Queens. It's the first time he's gone without his own father along;he and Steffie came in from New Haven, taking the car ferry part of the way. His grandmother is from Russia, and...

The Talk of the Town Street Questions by Lincoln Caplan. Talk story about radio personality Larry King & his all-night call-in talk show, (it's now heard from 11:06 p.m. until 5 a.m. on 282 Mutual stations including WOR in New York). King has devoted one program for each of the 8 years he has had his current radio...

A Reporter at Large THE INCIDENT AT NAPLES by Francis Steegmuller. AREPORTER AT LARGE about the writer being hospitalized in Naples, Italy and New York City, as a result of a robbery in Italy. Honor and Virtue. Those are the names of 2 great crenellated round towers that flank Porta Capuana, in Naples... There, just inside the walls, the Neapolitan law...

Poetry Homage to the Impressionist Painters by Sherod Santos. Two small boys, crouched...

Poetry Dusk by Sydney Lea. What do I know? Random birds. The trees...