The Current Cinema CUBANS, TEEN-AGERS, VAMPIRE BATS by Susan Lardner.

The Talk of the Town Thirty Years Ago by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a number of events which took place thirty years ago (1949): Russia got the bomb; the Polaroid Land Camera was introduced; a Gallup poll showed which American comedians were considered funniest; a grant was given for a study showing that Negroes had the same mental capacity as...

Fiction Mr. and Mrs. Baby by Mark Strand. Mr. and Mrs. Baby wake up on a summer morning in California. They look familiar. Their features combine the features of a host of movie stars. At breakfast, the Babys anticipate what is on each other's mind. Bob Baby gives a long speech. Babe Baby is overcome with laughter. During...

Profiles Mamaji-III by Ved Mehta. PROFILE of Shanti Devi Mehta, the writer's mother, Mamaji. The Mehtas lived in a large family house in Lahore. India, which was completed in Nov., 1929 just in time for the birth of their third daughter. The three girls were born within the space of 3 years. Most of his...

Fiction The Betrayer of Israel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. An 11 year old son of a rabbi watches the street from the balcony of his home in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. Suddenly a screaming crowd enters the courtyard: an unofficial lawyer, police, a group of women and one small man. They tell the rabbi that the little man...

Comment by William Smith. We have taken to musing recently upon the fate of fallen rulers. This is not surprising, since we have been hearing about so many of them. In Algeria, former Pres. Ahmed Ben Bella, who has been under house arrest for the past 14 years, is being permitted to receive visitors...

The Talk of the Town Public Appearance by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about a personal appearance by Uncle Floyd Vivino, host and creator of "The Uncle Floyd Show," a television "kiddie" show on WTVG in Newark (Channels 60 & 68). Writer went to the First Annual Uncle Floyd Show Convention at the Masonic Temple in Elizabeth, N.J. There are over...

The Talk of the Town Experience by Wallace White. Talk story about a reception reopening the Visitors Center at the New York Stock Exchange. Present at the ceremonies was William Green, Representative...

Letter from Prague by Anthony Bailey. For visiting foreigners, life in Prague, a city of just over a million, has the charm of a place with a much-evident past For the citizens of the city, Prague has an atmosphere of shiftiness and demoralization. Life there requires constant vigilance and exacts frustration. Housing, services, good medical...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Poetry The Eel Grounds by Aaron Fischer. On warm nights, the tide is out...

Poetry The Cat's View by Virginia R. Terris. The cat at dawn goes to the slightly raised window...

Poetry Haunted Landscape by John Ashbery. Something brought them here. It was an outcropping of...