The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Trainer of Seattle Slew, who resumed racing, after a long period of inactivity. He won a seven-furlong allowance race at Aqueduct...

Fiction The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro. The narrator comes to Toronto from Vancouver. Her father is in the hospital there, hooked up to a machine that prints out his heart's activity. He decides to undergo surgery for a damaged valve, which is very risky at his age. The narrator and her father talk in his room...

The Talk of the Town Club by Ved Mehta. Talk story about "Europe's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns," a new book of personal hotel recommendations edited by Hilary Rubinstein. Writer attends publication party and talks with Rubinstein about how the book grew out of an article he wrote on a hotel in Gozo. Tells about Rubinstein's career and quotes...

Fiction May Queen by Mary A. Robison. Denise and Mickey watch their daughter, Riva, in the May procession outside the St. Rose of Lima Church in Indianapolis. Riva is the May Queen and is wearing a dress her mother made. During the ceremony inside the church, Riva's dress catches fire and she is taken to the sacristy...

Profiles IN NUMBERS TOO GREAT TO COUNT by Eugene Kinkead. PROFILE of the house sparrow which, probably occupies the most extensive range of any terrestrial wild bird in the world. Its scientific name is "Passer domesticus." Tells about its importation from England to the U.S. in 1850 by the Brooklyn Institute to control city insects. lt was also imported by...

Comment by Veronica Geng. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." People are debating this proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution as if it were beyond simple standards of right & wrong. Fair-minded people have been...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "La Soufriere", a thirty-odd minute film abo about the threatened eruption of a volcano in Guadeloupe two years ago. It was made, written and narrated by Werner Herzog...

A Reporter at Large MOMENTS FROM CHAPLIN by Lillian Ross. REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recollections of actor Charlie Chaplin. He was the first international movie star; he was also the first movie figure to be widely regarded as a genius. Through all the decades since Chaplin's arrival in Hollywood in the early years of motion pictures, he has persisted...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Richard H. Rovere.

The Theatre HOMAGE TO FATS by Brendan Gill.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Stepping Down by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about John Joseph DeLury who founded the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association and who retired as its president on April 30th. Tells about his childhood, early working days, and founding the union. Talks about a sanitation worker's job and its hazards; and the pay raises, pension, insurance, and other benefits...

Poetry Pentimento by Debora Greger. Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes...