Profiles THE STAFFS OF LIFE IV-EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of rice. In most governmental planning, agriculture is given the short end of the stick. It's only when a disaster hits that people think of money for agriculture. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, headquartered in Washington, coordinates and supports the activities of many other agricultural institutes whose...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Virgins by William Trevor. In Italy, at the cathedral of Siena, Laura bumped into Margaretta Heaslip, who she hadn't seen in 38 years. Laura remembered visiting the Heaslips in Ireland in 1941, when both girls were 10. They became best friends&wrote to each other when Laura went back to her home in...

Obituary by Lee Lorenz. Obituary of cartoonist Robert Day, who died Thursday, Feb. 7, 1985, at age 84...

The Talk of the Town Mystifier by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about an Henri Rousseau retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Writer talked to Carolyn Lanchner, a curator in the museum's department of painting and sculpture, and one of the organizers of the exhibit, which includes 59 Rousseaus, gathered from all over the world. Tells about Rousseau, who...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Mark Singer. For more than a decade, we have followed the debate over Westway-the proposal for a multibillion-dollar highway project that would dramatically&permanently alter the lower W. Side of Manhattan, along the Hudson River. Recently that debate has seemed headed toward a climax. A statement released last month...

The Talk of the Town Hungarian by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Pick Hungarian salami, which just arrived in the U.S. for the first time since the start of World War II. Writer went to the Hungarian restaurant called the Red Tulip, two hours before opening, to hear about the product and to sample it...

Reflections REVOLUTION 1-SHAH OF SHAHS by Ryszard Kapuscinski. REFLECTIONS about Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who came to power in 1941, after his father abdicated the throne. Writer describes a series of photographs in his possession that tell the history of Iran's regimes of terror, starting with the late 1800s. Tells of the Shah's personality, the 5 attempts on...

Poetry A Finished Man by Richard Wilbur. Of the four louts who threw him off the dock...

Poetry Losing Altitude by Nicholas Christopher. Plumetting past the birds...