A Reporter at Large LEGAL SERVICES by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Legal Services Corp. which provides legal aid to the poor. In 1974, Congress approved a bill, which had bipartisan backing, and which Richard Nixon signed into law, establishing the corp. The program helped poor people with everyday matters and also helped them obtain govt. benefits...

The Talk of the Town Hotel by Alec Wilkinson. Talk story about a luncheon to celebrate the opening of the Hotel Intercontinental, on East Forty-eighth Street, which used to be the Barclay. A woman on the staff of the new hotel tells a companion that some of the rooms in the old hotel were really on their last...

The Talk of the Town Flag by Wallace White. Talk story about a visit to the Explorers Club, on East 70th St., the other afternoon to witness the presentation of something called the Flag for Planet Earth to an explorer who was about to set off on an expedition to the Andes. The flag was designed by James Lee...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Many govt. people were shocked when France signed a trade agreement with the Soviet Union, a month after the military coup in Poland, committing the French to buy from the Russians a third of all the gas they will use for the next 25 years. The gas treaty was signed...

Comment by Whitney Balliett. Obituary of the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who died last week (Wed., Feb. 17th), at the age of 64...

The Theatre BORROWINGS by Brendan Gill.

Reflections FREUD AND THE SOUL by Bruno Bettelheim. REFLECTIONS about the mistranslation of Freud from German into English, which writer says has led to a misinterpretation of what Freud sought to teach about the inner life of man. Although Freud often spoke of the soul, nearly all of his many references to the soul, and to matters pertaining...

Musical Events Soldiers by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Colman, Ronald by Michael Brownstein. Ronald Colman(not the movie star) lived in a fifth floor walk up. He had adopted the name because of a fateful encounter with a Mr. Ronald Colman of Brooklyn The Ronald Colman of the fifth floor walk up was a four-year-old child when President Kennedy was shot...

The Talk of the Town Constant by Alec Wilkinson. Talk interview with Joel Hirschhorn, 15, a senior at Stuyvesant High School, who is one of 40 finalists in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, a national competition among high-school seniors. Hirschhorn talks about his paper, "On the Distribution of Twin Primes." The first half of Hirschhorn's project proves that...

The Talk of the Town Waterfront by James Stevenson. Talk story telling of a friend's early morning visit to the Portland, Maine waterfront. He drove down Commercial Street, parking at Casco Bay Lines ("Scenic Cruises-Serving 365 Maine Islands"). After a stop at Harbor Lunch he crossed Commercial Street and went down a narrow snow-clogged street leading onto...

Fiction Post Office by Saul Steinberg. Spread of four drawings of post office buildings. The first is Canal St. Station, in New York. Others are: Lynchburg, Va., Amagansett, N.Y., and Charlotte, N.C...

Fiction Easterly by Ted Walker. The easterly is an evil wind that blows along the English Channel coast sometimes in winter. The narrator and his father went hunting in an easterly, the first time in three years they'd been wildfowling together. The father complained that he was too old to be out in such a...

Poetry Silver Thaw by Susan Prospere. How cold the angels are...

Poetry Don Giovanni In Trouble by Jack Gilbert. The orchard changed. His appetite drifted...