A Reporter at Large THE MEXICAN OIL PUZZLE by Joseph Kraft. REPORTER AT LARGE about Mexican oil and gas reserves, their effect on the Mexican economy, and the difficult negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico over petroleum imports. Writer talks to Pres. Jose Lopez Portillo, who hopes that oil development will solve the country's worst problem, unemployment. He also talks to...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The market-research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White has conducted a study for the American Society of Newspaper Editors on the public's feelings about the press, and Charles B. Seib, of the Washington "Post," in summarizing its findings, asks, "Did you know you have a 'social contract' with your...

Onward and Upward with the Arts Thirty Seconds-I by Michael J. Arlen. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about planning and filming a TV commercial for A.T.&T. Long Lines, aimed at increasing revenue from long-distance phone calls. The commercial, called "Tap Dancing," was written by the N.W. Ayer ad agency and was filmed by Steve Horn, Inc. Steve Horn...

The Talk of the Town The Visitor by Anthony Hiss. Part III of 4 part Talk story on Pope John Paul II's two-day visit to New York. Kathy Hutchison, from Bloomfield, New Jersey, a member of its Board of Edication, took her family to Battery Park to hear the Pope speak. He was scheduled to speak at 11 a.m...

The Talk of the Town The Visitor by Suzannah Lessard. Part IV of 4 part Talk story on Pope John Paul II's two-day visit to New York. Describes the crowd waiting along Fifth Ave. for the Pope to pass by on his way to Battery Park...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town The Visitor by Wallace White. Part II of 4 part Talk story on Pope John Paul II's two-day visit to New York. On Wednesday morning writer goes to visit home of Mrs. Mary Dziepak in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Mentions the many Polish names on signs in that section of Greenpoint. Tells about...

The Current Cinema Peculiar Influences by Donald Barthelme. Review of "Nosferatu, the Vampyre...

The Talk of the Town The Visitor by Mary D. Kierstead. Four part Talk story on Pope John Paul II's two-day visit to New York. I.) Tues. Tells about reception held for the Pope in the General Assembly Hall of the U.N. He is a world leader who had no nationalistic axe to grind. Everyone at the U.N. could relax...

Fiction Teeth by Penelope Gilliatt. Amanda, a young sculptor in England, is horseback riding with her mother, who asks about Andrew, the man Amanda is seeing. The mother disapproves of his being a dentist, but asks why they do not marry. Later, Amanda and Andrew are together. Amanda says her mother never got over his...

Poetry Working Late by Louis Simpson. A light is on in my father's study...

Poetry Rilke's Childhood by Howard Moss. What angel woke...