Cover artist: Andre Francois
Publication Date: September 25, 1989
Page Count: 122 pages
In this issue:The Talk of the Town Transport by Amy Clyde. Talk story about bicycle designers George Bliss and Jan Van der Tuin. The two met at the 1987 conference. The story tells about the kinds of bikes the men design, how they are used, and what their plans are... Musical Events by Andrew Porter. Books by John Newhouse. The Talk of the Town Altimeter Man by John McPhee. Talk story about William Peet, a man who has cornered the market for altimeters -- a high-precision pocket machine that discloses one's altitude in repsect to sea level. Peet invites the writer to test the altimeters. They meet in Fort Tyron Park, near the George Washington Bridge, where Peet has... Reflections I-BREAKING FAITH by Shirley Hazzard. REFLECTIONS about the failure of the United Nations organization. Tells about Waldheim's war record & his subsequent attempts to conceal it, as well as his search for prestige in the post-war world... In refusing to appeal to the North Vietnamese authorities on behalf of millions of refugees trapped in... Our Far-Flung Correspondents THE VICKSBURG GHOST by Sue Hubbell. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Louise Welling's sighting of Elvis Presley in the check out line at Felpausch's Supermarket in Vicksburg, Michigan in 1987. The writer, who grew up near Vicksburg, in Kalamazoo, decided to go to Vicksburg in June of 1988 to find out what she could about the... Fiction Nothing To Ask For by Dennis McFarland. The narrator, Dan, is over at his best friend's apt. in San Diego. HIs friend, Mack, is dying of AIDS and Dan has come over, as he often does, to help care for Mack. This visit he cleans the apartment, cooks, gives Mack a bath, and at the end takes... Comment by Garrison Keillor. Comment about the writer's anxiety for his son, who is flying from New York to London. Waiting for his son to arrive at his hotel, the writer, started to think about him on a plane & got the jitters. He is 20 & has flown to Europe on his own... Poetry He got taken away quick. Then he hung around. by Irving Feldman. He got taken away quick. Then he hung around... Poetry Immature Technology by Caroline Fraser. There as machinery... Poetry Dark Flowers by Eavan Roland. I go down, step by step. The house is... | 
