Annals of Husbandry II-THE SWEET BEES by Sue Hubbell. ANNALS OF HUSBANDRY... For 15 years, writer has owned a small commercial beekeeping & honey-producing farm in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri. Tells about the spring & summer honey-producing period & about harvesting the honey in the summer. Tells about swarming. Nearly every beekeeper has his own...

Fiction Sinatra by Susan Dodd. Sharon, the narrator, is divorced and lives with her son Jason in Cambridge. Her mother died 6 years ago, and her father, who is almost 89, lives alone in a small apartment in Santa Fe. He called her one night at midnight, crying, and said he forgot where he was...

Fiction Starburst by Ann Cummins. Barry Deemer, a policeman, is married to Rosy. He first fell in love with her when she was 11, and although she told him she liked him, she was an item with Scott Wentworth until Scott joined the Army at eighteen and married Janet six months later. Rosy wears a...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Comment by Judith Thurman. Comment about beggars in New York City... A woman writes: I gave my first handout to a beggar when I was 6... It was an old nun in sandals & a dusty habit, holding a tin begging bowl... A few nightas ago writer got on the subway at Union Square...

The Talk of the Town Nostalgia by Mark Singer. A talk story about free-lance writer Jack Smith... The golden age of "Nostalgia News" came & went last November, when 2 issues of the weekly tabloid--the 1st & the last--were published. The 1st issue featured on the front page a story with the headline "Lucy-Desi To...

A Reporter at Large OUT OF THE DESERT by Milton Viorst. REPORTER AT LARGE about Kuwait, a segment of desert roughly the size of New Jersey. It has beneath its surface one of the world's largest reservoirs of petroleum. Last year its native population of 700,000 reaped the benefits of more than 6 billion dollars in oil revenue & 4 billion...

The Talk of the Town Test by Michael J. Arlen. Talk story about a nuclear-test-ban verification test, using conventional explosives, in Nevada, co-sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the USSR... Tells about the test, performed about 100 miles outside Reno. Jacob Scherr, the senior staff attorney for the NRDC said, "About 2 years ago, NRDC's...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Twins by Brendan Dealy. Talk story about the New York State Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs convention, held at the Vista Hotel, at the World Trade Center. The chairman of the convention was Felicia Connors. There were 310 mothers of twins, who use the word "singleton" for any offspring who is not a...

Books by Terrence Rafferty.

Poetry Sea Dog by Eamon Grennan. The sea has scrubbed him clean...

Poetry Persian Shrubs by Jean Alice Jacobson. In the stretch of evening...