The Talk of the Town Civics in Greenwich Vill. by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a problem in Greenwich Village: the people who live there are white but many visitors on Fr. & Sat. nights are black. The whites have done two things about the problem: 1)Formed a Coalition of Concerned Citizens "to restore & preserve the unique character of our...

Television Comment by Jonathan Schell. The President's trip to China shows that television coverage opens a new field of action to men in power. With TV a Pres. can draw eyes away from day-to-day unfolding of policy & focus them on complex, powerful, symbolic events that he can manipulate easily. A colloquy follows...

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Talk of the Town Vintage Year by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about "1922: A Vintage Year", the N.Y. Public Library's Jan. - Sept. exhibit of manuscripts, letters, drawings, photographs, & 1st editions selected from the library's Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection of English and American literature. The title of the exhibit refers to the wealth of good literature...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. As negotiations continue between the New York Racing Association and the mutuel clerks of Aqueduct, owners & trainers of the nearly 2,000 horses stabled at Belmont Park & Aqueduct are becoming more & more exasperated. The talk of shipping away is growing. The first notable departure-for Hollywood Park-was...

The Talk of the Town The Great Saul Goodman (Part One) by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Saul Goodman, the only acknowledged master of the kettledrum. This is his last season as timpanist & head of the percussion section of the N.Y. Philharmonic. His first concert with the Philharmonic was the orchestra's 2,084th, back in 1926-conductor: Willem Mengelberg, Toscanini's predecessor. Last week, the...

The Talk of the Town by Nathaniel Benchley. Note attached to some bills for garbage removal received by a Nantucket householder: "These bills are NOT up to date. Arthur is about six weeks behind on his slips...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Lengthy review of "The Sorrow and the Pity", directed by Marcel Ophuls...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Reflections REFLECTIONS THE NEW JUSTICE by Richard Harris. Largely compiled by the Nixon Admin. & sponsored by Senators John McClellan & Roman Hruska, the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, although aimed at organized crime, could readily be expanded to cover other areas of criminal law, such as political crimes. Discusses its passage, the small opposition to it...

Fiction In the Words Of by Julie Hayden. Two people are in a field in the Catskills. They are a painter and his friend, a woman named Twig. Gradually we learn the story of their relationship. Five years ago, Twig was drowning and he had saved her. They lived together for a long time, but they did not...

Fiction The Ariel by Ted Walker. A young man in England visits his father, who's had an operation for arthritis, & now must use crutches until he can walk again. His mother tells him his father is miserable, & sick of people trying to cheer him up. He goes in, & makes small talk; then his...

The Talk of the Town Pinpoint by Peggy Heinrich. A friend of ours went into a Fifth Avenue department store the other morning to send a birthday gift to a friend of hers far away. The salesgirl carefully wrote down some details of the complicated address, which was in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and then looked up from her pad...

Poetry The Pure Suit of Happiness by May Swenson. The pure suit of happiness...

Poetry The Kitchen, (1926-1939) by John Unterecker. This poem is in five parts...