Fiction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Over the weekend the vultures got into the Presidential Palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows, and at dawn on Monday the city near the Caribbean sea awoke out of its lethargy of centuries. In recent years neither human sounds nor the singing of birds was heard...

A Reporter at Large What They Were Hunting For~I by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about selecting a new site for the capital of Alaska. Writer travelled by air with the Capital Site Selection Committee. Juneau has been the capital since 1900. It is in the Southeastern region two time zones away from Anchorage, from Fairbanks, from the center of the state...

Letter from Bayreuth by Jane Boutwell. Piece about the Wagner opera festival in Bayreuth, West Germany. Its 100th anniversary was celebrated this summer by a new unorthodox, and anti-romantic "Ring of the Nibelung," Wagner's monumental music drama. The opera was produced by the 56-year-old festival director Wolfgang Wagner; Pierre Boulez, a specialist in...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. As the contest between President Ford and Governor Carter gets under way and the country prepares for a full four and a half hours of debate between the two men, news organizations once again face the complicated question of how to bring a Presidential campaign before the public. Tells how...

The Talk of the Town Two Gatherings by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about fashion show to benefit the Museum of the City of New York at Saks Fifth Avenue. The show, paid for by the store, presented Gloria Vanderbilt's collection of fall creations. It cost $15 a ticket, drinks and hors d'oevres included. Describes the room, the fashion show. Miss...

The Race Track Forego, Forego, Forego by G. F. T. Ryall. At the Keeneland September Yearling Sales in Lexington last week, eight yearlings bred by John M. Olin brought $728,500. Mr. Olin, an industrialist, is almost 84 and is retiring from racing; he was the first man in this country to give more than $100,000 for a yearling at an auction...

The Talk of the Town Two Gatherings by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about visit to The Loft, a private discotheque downtown Manhattan, with discotheque music enthusiast and writer, Vince Aletti. Aletti goes to The Loft every Saturday night, the only night it is open. To be admitted to the club, you have to be invited by someone who is a...

Fiction The Joy Of Mooching by S. J. Perelman. The writer, an author whose books don't sell, seeks to emulate Italian writer Sebastiano Amara's successful efforts to publicize his book "How To Make Begging Pay." Sebastiano, disguised as a crippled beggar and followed by cars of cocktail party guests, settled on the main shopping street of Monza, Italy and...

Books Poor Relations by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town The Open Road by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about the old curmudgeon's visit to the 4-year-old tent show, the Circus Vargas, in New York for the first time. The big top was set up on a lot at Second Avenue and 100th St., taking up an entire city block. Talks to the "engagement director...

Around City Hall PARABLES by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about New York senatorial primaries and the New York delegation to the Republican Convention. Tells about national decrease in voter registration. Only 24% of the registered voters voted in the New York Democratic primary for Senate, won by Daniel Moynihan. The Republicans had their first statewide senatorial...

The Current Cinema CREAMED by Pauline Kael.

Poetry The Going Away Of Young People by Eleanor Ross Taylor. This was the day...

Poetry Burden by Peter Kane Dufault. I called you because I could not stand alone...