The Talk of the Town Building by Mark Singer. Talk story about writer's trip to the Empire State Building on Thanksgiving Eve. The writer describes his meeting with Troop 103 of the Boy Scouts who were camping for the night on the eighty-sixth floor. Reverend Frank F. Rafter, pastor of the Richmond Hill Baptist Church and Scoutmaster of...

Musical Events Key Moments in "Figaro" by David Hamilton.

A Reporter at Large THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION by Jane Kramer. REPORTER AT LARGE about events in Portugal since the Apr. 25, 1974 coup...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Books Memory Is All by Janet Flanner.

The Current Cinema Political Acts by Pauline Kael. Review of his new film "Special Section...

Fiction Foxcastle by Sylvia Townsend Warner. James Sutherland, a forty-nine year old Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen during the Middle Ages, has been fascinated, all his life, by fairies. He travels and searches Pictish remains for traces of them. One day during summer vacation, he falls asleep on the moors and awakes to find...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. A few years ago, a national debate arose over what the Club of Rome, in one of its publications, called "the limits to growth." Some people believed then that economic expansion could go on indefinitely, among them was Pres. Nixon. Writer goes on to tell about a recent Louis Harris...

The Race Track A Tip From a Trainer by G. F. T. Ryall. Writer tells about Dick Dutrow, a 37-year-old Maryland-bred horseman who has saddled more winners than any other trainer in a single season - at least as far back as records are kept. At present he has about 80 horses in training, for 31 owners, all of whom have...

The Talk of the Town The Brain by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about the fifth annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience at the New York Hilton. The 4,000 scientists who met had one interest in common --the brain. Tells about information gleaned from some of the scientific papers presented, principally about a new treatment for pain & work with...

The Talk of the Town Wrong Clothes by Suzannah Lessard. Talk story about "a thorny sartorial problem." The writer had to attend two parties on the same night; one in SoHo and one on the upper East Side. While blue jeans would be appropriate in SoHo, they wouldn't do on the East Side. She opted for a cocktail dress and...

Profiles GOODBYE OOMPAH by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of Harvey Phillips, virtuoso tubist and professor of music at Indiana University. Many of Phillips' colleagues rank him as the finest living brass player. Phillips is actively concerned with the betterment of the tuba, of those who play it and of American music. Phillips often sponsors and/or organizes...

Poetry The Man On The Trampoline by Donald Finkel. The man on the trampoline...

Poetry Stove by Philip Booth. I wake up in the bed my grandmother died in...

Poetry James Bottle's Year by Alastair Reid. December finds him...