Books by Mollie Panter-Downes.

Fiction The U.P.S. Man by Michael Brownstein. The writer lives on a sparsely-populated road west of Boulder, Colorado. He describes the area and his neighbors, mostly young people who commute to Boulder and a few mountain people. When he no longer has to work in town himself, he notices that he sees the U.P.S. man every...

Reflections THE SALT PROCESS by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. REFLECTIONS by a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. Senate, now holding hearings on SALT II. Writer, after giving a history of SALT; nuclear strategic theory in the U.S.; and of U.S. -Soviet arms buildup, ironicaly given momentum by SALT, says that the process, begun to...

The Talk of the Town Film by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the Dalai Lama, who came to the Union Club to view a film about Tibet made in 1942 and 1943 by the Office of Strategic Services. Veterans of the O.S.S. wanted to give the film to the Dalai Lama as a gesture of friendship on his first...

The Talk of the Town Mayor by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about the meeting of a group of people at the site of the first City Hall in New York City - now a vacant lot on Pearl Street. They met at the request of the Landmarks Preservation Commissioner. He, the Mayor, and an archeologist, were to say a few...

The Current Cinema Dimensions by Renata Adler. In review of "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" writer says that at the same theatre there is a short film produced by the Will Rogers Institute in cooperation with the National institute on Drug Abuse...

Fiction Speck's Idea by Mavis Gallant. Sandor Speck, 40, owns a small art gallery on the Left Bank in Paris. His first gallery, on the Right Bank, was blown up by Basque separatists. Speck's wife left him to live with her lover. She went off shouting "Fascist!" In planning the spring exhibition at his gallery, Speck...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Jamaica Kincaid. A young woman we know writes: This morning I was listening to the radio...and the disc jockey said that the Beatles were getting back together... He said, "Can you imagine the Beatles back and playing together?" I imagined that, and while I was at it I imagined a number...

The Talk of the Town Upside Relief by Mark Singer. Talk story about Larry Wachtel who broadcasts a stockmarket commentary on WINS, the all-news radio station, at 7:27 a.m. weekdays. Writer visits him the morning of the 50th anniversary of Black Tuesday to hear Wachtel's one minute, forty-five second broadcast. Wachtel's program is geared to a professional audience...

The Talk of the Town Three Hotels by George W. S. Trow. Talk story preceded by the words: "The Present" about a meeting at Hurlingham's, a restaurant at the N.Y. Hilton, of representatives of the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club and others interested in polo motifs. Tells how the polo motif was carried out at Hurlingham's. Some of the people were...

The Theatre NO EPIGRAMS by Brendan Gill.

Poetry Hotel Sierra by David St. John. The November air...