The Sporting Scene MUNDIAL NOTEBOOK: ARIEL V. CALIBAN by Alastair Reid. THES SPORTING SCENE about the World Cup in Mexico... The World Cup competition--and indeed, all soccer games on the international level--is organized & supervised by the Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, from its headquarters in Zurich. 158 countries are members of FIFA, just one less than...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

A Reporter at Large II-RAJNEESHPURAM by Frances FitzGerald. REPORTER AT LARGE about Rajneeshpuram, a commune on a ranch in Central Oregon led by the Indian guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. His personal secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, behaved outrageously saying she was doing the bidding of Rajneesh. Tells how Rajneesh had made a career out of outrageousness. For quite a...

Books by John Updike.

The World of Business The Girl from Cardigan by Leslie Norris. Selwyn, the narrator, recalls his beginnings in the world of business and politics in Monmouthshire, Wales. When he was a baby, his father left home. At 18, his aggressive mother took him into town where they "bumped" into her wealthy cousin, Harvey Lockwood. The town was so corrupt, in order...

The Talk of the Town Empowering by Nancy Ramsey. Talk story about party on Monday, Sept. 15th at Barney's to celebrate the opening of the women's store (17th St. and 7th Ave.). People who attended include: Barney Pressman (the Barney, of Barney's New York), Andree Putnam, Andrew Stein, Robert Abrams, Mayor Koch, Peter Allen, and eight women's organizations. Describes...

The Talk of the Town The Yavari by William McKibben. A talk story about Englishwoman Meriel Larken's great-grandfather Wyatt Rawson of the Royal Navy, and about a steamship on Lake Titicaca in Peru, which for a century, beginning in 1870, plied its waters. Larken is seeking funds to refurbish the ship; Wolseley was the commander of an Egyptian campaign...

The Talk of the Town The Merc by Constance Feeley. Talk story about the Mercantile Library, wedged in a narrow white marble building on E. 47th St. just west of Madison Av. ...it is one of a relatively few private libraries extant that predate the public library systems. Founded 166 years ago for young merchant clerks(hence the name)it...

The Current Cinema GOINGS ON by Pauline Kael.

Fiction What Happened by Veronica Geng. Satirical letter about wife leaving her husband because the Mets' pitcher, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, had a losing streak. She and the children have left; it could have happened to anybody, what happened to Dwight, there is no problem. She's studied Doc's playing this year and last. There is no difference...

Comment by Lawrence Weschler. There are relatively few things that the Polish regime of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski seems to know how to do right(the Polish economy, for example, is an utter shambles)but one of them is how to pull off a coup. On Dec. 13, 1981, Jaruzelski & his fellow-officers managed...

Poetry Making Light of It by Philip Levine. I call out a secret name, the name...

Poetry The Pupil by Donald Justice. Picture me, the shy pupil at the door...