The Talk of the Town Complex by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the new Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey, which was financed and, for the most part, constructed by the state of NJ. The Complex includes the Meadowlands Racetrack, an enclosed structure seating 35,000, and the nearly finished 78,000-seat Giant Stadium. Describes the many features of the...

A Reporter in Washington Spring Notes~II by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes from May 27 to July 4, principally about the Presidential primaries. Tells about testimony to the African Affairs Subcommittee on the application by General Electric for permission to sell S. Africa 2 nuclear reactors and the fuel required to operate them. (Since 1961, the U.S. has shipped S...

The Current Cinema Edvard Munch by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Aloise", part of the Festival of Women's Films. It was directed by Liliane de Kermadec and written by her in collaboration with Andre Techine...

Comment by Maeve Brennan. After an interval, we have heard from our friend the long-winded lady, who writes: This is a daydream: I am lying in the sand just below the dunes on the beach in East Hampton, where I lived for several years... The cats and my dog, Bluebell, walked over here...

Books Justice to Jung by Robert Coles.

The Talk of the Town Gift by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the engagement of the Paris Opera at Lincoln Center. The company will play eight performances at the Metropolitan Opera and then move to the Kennedy Center. The cost of the entire operation - two million dollars after ticket sales - will be paid by the French government as a...

Fiction The Duke Of Orkney's Leonardo by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The fairy child, a boy, was born with a caul to Sir Huon and Lady Ulpha. Such children, said the midwife, never drown and keep an unblemished complexion to their dying day. Remarkably beautiful, he was named Gentle and taken to the Court of Rings by Sir Glamie, Chancellor. There...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents A NATURAL MIRACLE by Berton Roueche. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Alexander and Louisa Hargrave, who own a 44 acre vineyard near Cutchogue, on eastern Long Island. They bought the land, an old potato farm, in 1973 and planted their first vines that spring. Alexander Hargrave studied Chinese culture at Harvard, in the late 60's...

The Race Track The Futurity by G. F. T. Ryall. On Sept. 9 Gerald Robins, a Florida realtor bought a half interest in For the Moment. Two days later the horse won the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park. Mr. Robins won about $33,000 - half the winner's purse. Mr. Robins had called Waldemar Farms and offered a million for the horse...

The Talk of the Town Barter Baron by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Moreton Binn's barter business Atwood Richards, Inc. Atwood Richards, Inc. is a multimillion-dollar, 19-year-old, traditional reciprocal-trade leader, at 99 Park Avenue. Binn, 40 years old, has for almost two years been chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Atwood Richards...

Fiction Masterpiece Tearjerker by Veronica Geng. Parody of the BBC production of "Upstairs, Downstairs", shown on Public Television's "Masterpiece Theatre". The program concerned itself with an upper class English family around the early 20th century...

Poetry Old by Stanley Moss. The turtles are out...

Poetry Birds by Al Levine. I am not in the center of myself...