The Talk of the Town Noontime by Mark Singer. Talk story about lunch hour at the Savoy Provision Co., a sausage-and-salami factory on West Houston St. A man named Navozzo, who lives in New Jersey, passed by the Savoy and hollered in while the men were still at lunch...

The Talk of the Town Celebration by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about exhibition "A Celebration of Water" at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. The show is an exhibit of examples of aqueous architecture-bathroom fixtures, fountains-and photographs and paintings on the subject of water and how it is used. Tells about working fountain created by Ray Kelly into which...

Books by Susan Lardner.

Fiction The Experiment by Stanislaw Lem. Review of "Non Serviam," a fictional book by a fictional scientist named James Dobb documenting his research in personetics, a science described as an offshoot of the cybernetics and psychonics of the 80's, crossbred with applied intellectronics. In lay terms, it is the artificial production of intelligent beings. These...

Our Footloose Correspondents AFFAIRS OF STATE by Richard H. Rovere. Former Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times was named in the trial of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky as the C.I.A. agent with whom he had collaborated. Writer considers his opinion that by championing the cause of Shcharansky, the U.S. may have done more to harm Russian dissidents than to...

Fiction In the Night by Jamaica Kincaid. In the night, way into the middle of the night...

U. S. Journal FAMILY PROBLEMS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: MANCHESTER, N.H. about Hank Piasecny, who murdered his ex-wife, Doris; and about Susan Piasecny Hughes, Hank's daughter, who in turn killed him. Gives history of the violent Piasecny marriage which ended in divorce in 1963. At Christmas of that year, Hank killed Doris and John Betley, a...

Letter from Bangkok by Robert Shaplen. Thailand is engaged in a fresh effort to determine what degree of democracy can be encouraged within a traditional authoritarian structure. Discusses political history in detail from the 1973 coup, which overthrew two joint dictators, to the brief experiment in non-military guided democracy under Kukrit Pramoj, the Thammasat student...

Obituary by William Shawn. Obituary of Harold Rosenberg, "The New Yorker's" art critic, who died Tuesday, July 11, at the age of 72...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Comment by James Stevenson. Comment about summer on Columbus Avenue. On a side street between Columbus and Amsterdam, almost every building has some kind of garden blooming in front of it. One garden has a sign "Rosebush was HERE...

Affairs of State by Richard H. Rovere. Recent setbacks in American foreign policy are not making it easier to arrive at an arms-control treaty with the Soviet Union. There is no conclusive evidence for Pres. Carter's claim that Cuba was responsible for the May invasion of Shaba Province, in Zaire. Writer compares Zaire to Vietnam and...

Books by Susan Lardner.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Mel Hatley and Albert Yank's Effervescing won the American Handicap at Hollywood Park on the Fourth of July...

The Current Cinema BOTTLED HORSE by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Going Places by Ann Goldstein. Talk story about public debate at Cooper Union on the proposed new subway map. Tells about exhibit set up by the M.T.A. of the proposed new map, the present one, and others. Describes the new map in detail. It is a geographical one, different from the present one which is...

Poetry Spanish Sonnets by John Updike. By the light of insomnia, truths...

Poetry Leaving the Dream by Richard Hugo. Every day became a slow July. Sweat, it was clear...