Around City Hall In Clover by Andy Logan. In last week's mayoral election State Senator John Marchi, theRepublican candidate came in second. Among the campaign's few memorable moments were those in which Marchi, ordinarily amiable and contemplative, tried to look ferocious on TV in order to live up to the slogan assigned to him by his campaign manager...

Dancing A Moment in Time by Arlene Croce.

The Sporting Scene THE LONG MARCH by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the '73 baseball season, the Mets climb from the botton of the Nat'l. League to the top, & about the World Series between the Mets & the victorious Oakland A's. Describes their rise to the pennant in Aug. & Sept., their playoff games agains the Cincinnati...

Fiction Burial by Larry Woiwode. Charles Neumiller, a carpenter of German-Catholic parentage, receives a telegram telling him of his father's death. He takes a train to his father's homestead, in N.D., carrying his carpentry tools. Otto Neumiller, his father, had emmigrated from Germany in 1881, & had built himself up from a homesteader into...

Annals of Industry CASUALTIES OF THE WORKPLACE IV-NO TANGIBLE EFFECT ON SALES AND EARNINGS by Paul Brodeur. ANNALS OF INDUSTRY about asbestos and other occupational-health hazards. Tells about lack of federal gov't. action in this area of industrial health, carrying measures that favored industry over labor. Tells about the 5-fibre standard for asbestos, which is a dangerous level, & how even a 2-fibre standard...

The Talk of the Town Mankiewicz by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about an interview with Frank Mankiewicz. He did a lot of talking about Richard Nixon. He said James Reston, Jr. wrote to Albert Speer & got a very interesting letter back pointing out parallels between the Nazis and the Nixon White House...

The Talk of the Town Farewell by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the Election Eve hail-and-farewell party given for Mayor and Mrs. Lindsay by Ruth and Skitch Henderson at their new bistro, Daly's Daffodil in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge. Writer spoke with a number of persons who gave their views on the Mayor, praising him...

The Current Cinema Politics and Thrills by Pauline Kael. Lengthy essay on revolutionary political films of which "The French Conspiracy", which is reviewed, is one. It's not a good one. It raids all previous films (which are discussed). Directed by Yves Boisset...

Musical Events Another Castaway by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Comment by Calvin Trillin. When Lyndon Johnson firstgot in, people used to say, 'He's a real wheeler-dealer'", Alf Landon ramarked to an interviewer in 1967, about the time the voters who had given Johnson the greatest victory in Presidential history began to desert him. "Now they sady, 'He is nothing but a wheeler...

The Theatre ANOTHER PHILADELPHIA STORY by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Service by Victor Chen. Talk story about the custom of holding a brief church service in the locker rooms on Sundays before games by the teams in the National Football League. David Swanson, who works for the International Christian Leadership, helps Jet cornerback Earlie Thomas to arrange the services. Last Jan. some of the...

The Talk of the Town Alitalia Renews Lease by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about attending the celebration of the signing of a lease by Alitalia Airlines at their office at 666 Fifth Ave. They signed up for 68,000 square feet of office space. A press release said: "After an intensive two-year relocation study, Alitalia Airlines has decided to keep its...

The Race Track Dahlia's Day by G. F. T. Ryall. Dahlia won the Washington, D.C. International at Laurel, in Maryland. Dahlia is owned by Nelson Bunker Hunt, a Texas oilman...

Poetry Bringing In The Float by Louis O. Coxe. It looks like the old painterly palette...