The Talk of the Town High Risk by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about Richard Ravitch, a N.Y. builder and real-estate developer, who is president of H.R.H. Construction Corp. He's won high praise for his project called Waterside - a self-contained community nearing completion on a platform over the East River bet. 25th & 30th Streets. His latest development is...

Fiction Son by Berry Morgan. A Black woman is a patient in a mental hospital. One day, her dr. entrusts another patient, a young white boy who is the only son (Son is what they call him) of a rich couple from Jackson, Miss. to her care. All Son wants to do is sleep all...

The Talk of the Town News from China by Victor Chen. Talk story about a store in Chinatown that sells Chinese newspapers and goods from mainland China. Its English name is Chinese Native Products, Ltd. It is managed by Chen Ming. Before telling about; this store writer discusses the Chinese historian-writer, Wu Han who a few years ago came under...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. He trains Klepto, who won the Correction Handicap at Aqueduct...

Our Local Correspondents DANCING ON THE CARPET by Whitney Balliett. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about West Coast pianist Jimmy Rowles. He reminisced how Ben Webster and how much he owns him. They met in 1939 in Seattle. Mentions their last meeting in Copenhagan, where Webster lived, shortly before he died...

The Talk of the Town Forest by Wallace White. Talk story about the 43rd Annual Sport, Camping, Vacation, and Travel Show at the Coliseum, with a variety of exhibits and demonstrations having to do with the disparate things that people do outdoors...

Fiction The New Year Party by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Writer is invited to a New Year's Eve party given by Yiddish poet, Pearl Leipziger. She has invited a few Yiddish women writers and lovers of Yiddish Literature. Boris Lemkin, a 70 year-old rich real estate man was also there with his butler-friend, Harry. Boris is known as...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. It is April, and Heliotrope, the Open University of San Francisco, is once again turning toward the sun of felt needs and marigold-yellow fulfillments. Heliotrope is a real university, and lives at 21 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, Calif., 94111. Marigold yellow is one of the colors of Heliotrope's April...

Musical Events by David Hamilton.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "The Great Gatsby", Jack Clayton's slow, graceful film of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of 1925...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. Discusses the apprehension of some liberals concerning Nixon's possible impeachment. They fear that three years of spotlessly clean government under Gerald Ford might very well lead the electorate to ask for 4 more years of the same. The House Judiciary Committee still seems to be heading toward a recommendation of...

Letter from Indonesia by Robert Shaplen. Tells about the serious large-scale riots that erupted in Djakarta in Jan. 1974, and about the 1972 rice shortage. Pres. Suharto is not dealing well with immediate economic disparities: one stalled program involves an effort to resettle some of Java's millions of overcrowded farmers on more spacious & fertile...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Two by Greg Kuzma. Thanks, there now, for holding...

Poetry From A Town Trafficked By Crickets by Carolyn Stoloff. dust whirls...