The Talk of the Town Prom by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about the senior prom of Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, held at the Terrace On The Park, in Flushing Meadow Park. Writer spoke with a group of senior girls on the day of the prom at the Student Life Center at Hillcrest. Mentions Lauren Herriott, Marie Saget...

The Talk of the Town Terrace by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about our friend, the expatriate Englishwoman, who told about her apartment terrace. Things are doing splendidly this year, apart from the unpleasantness with the pigeons. Every inch is filled with greenery. She bought one of those Droll Yankee bird feeders in Bloomingdale's and filled it with Audubon Premium...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) $$$$ by Calvin Tomkins.

Books De Mortuis by George Steiner.

Fiction Happiness by Georgia A. Brown. The narrator, Juliet, begins a story about fame, and famous people, and her relationship to them, with an anecdote about Charles de Gaulle and his wife, which a famous Marxist historian told over a luncheon table. Asked about the basis of her long-lasting marriage, Mme. de Gaulle replied, "Happiness...

Letter from El Salvador by Tom Buckley. On Feb. 20, 1972, in El Salvador, there was a Presidential election in which Jose Napoleon Duarte, the candidate of the National Opposition Union, a civilian coalition, ran against Colonel Arturo Armando Molina, the candidate of the National Conciliation Party, the political mechanism whereby, under one name or another, the...

The Theatre TYPISTS by Brendan Gill.

Musical Events Imitation by Nicholas Kenyon.

Fiction On the Way to the Acropolis by Harry L. Mountzoures. Carol is 20 years old, a waitress who lives with her parents and takes night courses at a local college. She goes to a discotheque with her friends one night. She doesn't drink much, and she sees Micheal, a deaf boy, who is nineteen. She admires him for going out...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Shortly after Israel bombed the nuclear reactor in Iraq, Prime Minister Begin stated at a press conference that if Iraq had made three bombs of twenty kilotons each, and had dropped them on Israel, then Israel would have suffered 600,000 casualties. He went on to ask, "Where is the country...

The Sporting Scene FROM LINKSLAND TO AUGUSTA by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the Masters Tournament, won by Tom Watson in April, and about four inland golf courses that have something of the character and feel of linksland courses. Linksland, the typical setting for Scottish courses, refers to the sandy waste thrown up by the sea receding from the...

The Talk of the Town Belmont Stakes by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about going to the one-hundred and thirteenth running of the Belmont Stakes. In preparation for the race, writer looks up "horses" in his Larousse "Encyclopedia of Animal Life." Compares horses to Man, and to horned toad. Drives out to Belmont Park. Leaves his car at the...

Poetry Failure Three Poems by Katha Pollitt. You'd never set foot in this part of town before...