Comment by Thomas Whiteside. Nine years of herbicidal warfare was waged by the U.S. military in S. Vietnam. A committee of the National Academy of Sciences has now presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee a report of a 3-year study it made of the environmental effects of this warfare. The report has...

The Talk of the Town Two Gatherings by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about 2 concerts attended by the writer. The second concert was given by Aretha Franklin at the Apollo Theatre on 125th St. She records for Atlantic Records. She is a great talent who has finally learned to have self confidence on the stage. Her concert which opened with...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction Certain Hard Places by Linda Arking. Margo, a young writer, has just returned form a 3 yr. stay in Europe & gets in touch with her friend Danny who had been a sociology student with her at the New School. The 2 pass their reunion in Ratner's where Danny tells her how radically his life has...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. James D. St. Clair, the new man at the White House, says that he is a counsellor to "the office of the Presidency", not a counsellor to the Pres. The title puts a distance bet. St. Clair & such matters as the 18 1/2 min. gap and the "milk money...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Sigmund Sommer, who would rather buy horese ready-made than breed them, has scored big again. His 4-year-old Prince Dantan, whom he bought from John Galbreath, won the Santa Anita Handicap Sunday before last. Pancho Martin, who trains for Mr. Sommer, made the deal for Prince Dantan. Martin...

The Talk of the Town Sullen Gold by John McPhee. Talk story about gold in a cave under the Federal Reserve Bank on Maiden Lane. The hoard is the largest quantity of gold accumulated in one place ever. Mr. Nyland is of the Vault Division of the Fed. He is one of the persons whose presence is required in admitting...

Fiction Gods Must Yield by Strowan Robertson. An English couple staying on a Greek island meet a fellow Englishman, Lewis, who is a doctor and amateur archeologist and an admirer of ancient Greece. They go to a cafe where they meet Nikos, a young Greek afflicted with jaundice. Ptolomeos, the local postman's son, gives Nikos a primitive...

The Theatre THE THEATRE: OFF BROADWAY by Edith Oliver. Review of "Short Eyes", at the Public. The actors in this play describe themselves as The Family. Many, though not all, have served time at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where under the leadership of their director-a professional named Marvin Felix Camillo, who made regular visits to the prison...

A Reporter at Large FIREWOOD by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about firewood in N.Y. State. As petroleum reserves ran low early this winter a memorandum went out from Albany, from the director of the Division of Lands and Forests, to all regional foresters in the state, instructing them that it was now "the policy of this Dept...

Poetry Coming Home by Tess Gallagher. As usual, I was desperate...

Poetry The Arena by Naomi Lazard. You can't decide whether or not...