Musical Events Adventures by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The Ford by W. S. Merwin. A man shows slides of his travels to a group of people...

The Talk of the Town A Brute Indeed! by Israel Shenker. Talk story about Katharine F. Pantzer, who is working at Harvard's Houghton Library on the second edition, 50 yrs. after the first, of "A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640", STC for short. It has been an important...

The Sporting Scene THE COMPLETE BASKETBALL PLAYER by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about John Havlicek, of the Boston Celtics. Havlicek joined the Celtics before the 1962-63 season and has been captain of the team for more than a decade. Gives statistics on Havlicek's performance in basketball. Havlicek's most obvious gift is his great physical stamina, which is the result...

The Theatre MISADVENTURES IN VERONA by Brendan Gill.

Books The Personal Touch by Susan Lardner.

Fiction The Newest Consciousness by F. P. Tullius. After some extensive recent travels in this country the writer has determined there are some new self-awareness disciplines and movements. He tells about some of them, namely: Tibetan Lama-Calling; Cuticle Awareness; Japanese Tool Arranging; Situational Ethnics; Sufi Square Dancing...

Dancing Rudner's Turn by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Shakes by Mark Singer. Talk story about a milkshake-making contest, sponsored by Russell Farms Milk, and held in the ice-cream parlor on the 9th floor of Bonwit Teller. A panel of seven, including football player Bubba Smith, rated the high and low-calorie milkshakes. Steve Orson, a lab technician from Lodi, New...

The Talk of the Town Tolerance for Incongruity by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about a meeting on hypnosis, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and attended by about 200 clinicians and researchers. Tells history of hypnosis from Franz Anton Mesmer's treatments in Paris, in the 1770's to current research conducted by Dr. Martin T. Orne, a professor of...

Fiction Strategies, Mostly Kind by Jane Mankiewicz. Sophie had not seen Jesee in weeks. The fragile juggling of schedules, egos, and plans seemed to Sophie deadening, made each visit an event, a guaranteed anticlimax. And I'm already half an hour late, at least, Sophie thought. Occasionally, Jesse had been allowed to stay overnight with her. Dan and...

The Race Track Now the Flamingo by G. F. T. Ryall. There was no racing in Maryland last week. The parimutuel clerks and other employees of Bowie Race Course struck over a new contract. The walkout continued through the end of the meeting last Saturday, and the $100,000 John B. Campbell Handicap was not run. Pimlico, which was also involved in...

Onward and Upward with the Arts RUNNING FENCE by Calvin Tomkins. ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the raising last Sept. of Bulgarian-born artist Christo's 24 1/2-mile 3 million-dollar Running Fence, one of the most ambitious & controversial art projects of the last decade. It was made of white nylon, 18 ft. high & part of it...

Comment by Ian Frazier. A letter from "our young friend" about how we bear the blame for all the recent books and movies and television shows about the McCarthy era. No one had the courage to stop forward and say, "Hey, isn't this the fifth or sixth book on this subject in the last...

The Current Cinema No Sadness That Art Cannot Quell by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of his German film "Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven...

Poetry At Pere Lachaise by Mona Van Duyn. What began as death's avenue...

Poetry The Blind Girl by Louise Gluck. When I was ten God sent...

Poetry Four Birds by Howard Moss. Wake to the sun," the rooster croaked...