Annals of Chemistry IN THE FACE OF DOUBT by Paul Brodeur. ANNALS OF CHEMISTRY about depletion of the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon gases, used in aerosol sprays, industrial processes & air conditioners. Tells about a hole in the Antarctic ozone layer & about its disturbing implications. Discusses the history of the fight against the use of chlorofluorocarbon gases by scientists &...

The Talk of the Town Award by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Mrs. Otto(Eloise O'Mara) Spaeth, realist painter John Register, and the Greenburger Foundation awards. Expressionist painter Rosemarie Koczy, 47, was chosen by museum director Thomas Messer for the award...

The Talk of the Town The Fourth Channel by William McKibben. Talk story about Britain's Channel 4, a national network that was chartered early in the decade by the government to "innovate in form and content." Included on Channel 4's schedule is "Max Headroom," a wildly popular science-fiction fantasy "set in a nowhere land somewhere in the future where...

Books by William Maxwell.

Fiction Elephant by Raymond Carver. The narrator is a reformed alcoholic whose entire family is dependent on him for money. His ex-wife gets her monthly check due to a court order. His mother out in California, is poor and greedy, and he sends her a check monthly. His daughter lives in a trailer with...

Fiction Manhattan by Andrzej Czeczot. Eight drawings of New York scenes. They are captioned: First Citizens, White Men, Central Park, Mass Transit, Visitors, Street Music, Gathering and The Sea...

The Talk of the Town Anarchy Without Malice by Mark Singer. Talk story, about being ticketed for riding a bicycle through a red light at 6th Ave. & 27th Street. Writer put on his brakes in plenty of time to avoid striking Officer Louis Guilano, of the NYCPD. He was standing in the bicycle lane, near the northwest corner... Writer was...

The Diplomatic Round POLITICS AND WEAPONS SALES by John Newhouse. THE DIPLOMATIC ROUND about weapons sales, in particular the sale of advanced combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia and the sale to the U.S. Army of a mobile communications network. In early 1985 Sec. of State George Shultz, wanted to sell the Saudis the F-15 airplanes they requested but he...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Writer quotes from Auden's "The Witnesses" (not identified in comment) beginning "You are the town and We are the clock. We are the guardians of the gate in the rock. The Two. ..."Thus, Auden, speaking in the language of our day about what the Greeks used to call the Fates...

A Reporter at Large THE BLESSING OF THE FLEET by Alec Wilkinson. A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Provincetown is at the end of Cape Cod. Approximately 3500 people live there year-round...

Poetry In a Jar by Czeslaw Milosz. Now, with all my knowledge, honorable newts...