The Talk of the Town Day Off by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a drive to inspect the progress of construction of a Girl Scout camp up in the mountains near the Hawk's Nest, a deep gorge in the Delaware River, upriver from the Water Gap. Writer drives up in a car with the two architects, Henry Korman and Claude...

Dancing The End of the Line by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Washington Square Park by Suzannah Lessard. Talk story about a concert in Washington Square Park at night. This was the third of 5 concerts in the 18th season of the Music Festival in Washington Square Park. The program was "A Salute to Living New York State Composers." There was an overture by Donald Waxman, a concerto...

Books Short of Goodbye by Brendan Gill.

The Race Track Wajima by Ten by G. F. T. Ryall. The best news for racing in New York is that Tommy Trotter has been rehired as racing secretary and handicapper for the New York Racing Association. He will take over in October from Kenneth Noe, Jr., who replaced Trotter when he was dismissed in 1971...

A Reporter at Large SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS by James Stevenson. REPORTER AT LARGE about Senator Edward Kennedy. Four speeches Kennedy made, and the questions & answers following are quoted at length. On May 1, in Boston, Kennedy spoke to the Boston College Law School alumni about the human tragedy of the Vietnam war, U.S. misunderstanding of it, futility of U.S...

Comment by Ved Mehta. The Indian Constitution allows the govt. to assume emergency powers in times of extraordinary external or internal threat to the security of the country, such as an invasion or a civil war, & since Jun. 26 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been governing India under emergency provisions set out in...

Fiction Gray Skies by Julian Mazor. A. very unhappily married American couple. Wanda and Harry, and their child, Walter, have gone to live in Ireland. He loves it, she hates it. The story is one quarrel after another. They went abroad in the winter of 1969 and lived in London before going to Ireland. They lived...

The Talk of the Town Small Talk by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about reception on a 120-year-old genuine Chinese junk at the 23rd St. Marina on the East River to publicize Wyborowa Polish vodka. Talked with Mrs. Wanda Moscicka, the chief of vodka export at Agros which is part of the National Foreign Trade Enterprises of Poland. She...

The Current Cinema High Bravado from the Lower Depths by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "The Great McGonagall", directed by Joseph McGrath. It was conceived in an outburst of awe at the poetical pearls of William Gonagall, Poet and Tragedian. It is acted by the greatest of the Goons, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. The Goons were the genius BBC radio forerunners of...

Fiction The Inquiring Demographer by Calvin Trillin. This Week's Question: Have You Been Doing Any Gardening This Summer? Illustrated story. The above question is answered by: Mrs. Millicent Hardy, Program Chairman of the Westchester County Rose Society, Purchase, New York, who's going to call the mauve-and-ochre hybrid she's developed the Bella Abzug Rose. Luis Valdez...

Poetry Again by Howard Nemerov. Again, great season, sing it through again...

Poetry At The Graveyard: Minnie Patterson (1873-1971) by Henri Coulette. We have come a little early. Minutes away in the small town...