The Talk of the Town The Quark by Jeremy Bernstein. Talk story about Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, an authority on sub-atomic particles called quarks. Writer spoke with Gell-Mann, who is 47, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, and a professor at Calif. Institute of Technology, at his summer home in Aspen, Col. It's not far from the Aspen Center...

Fiction Fireflies by James McConkey. The narrator's wife, the editor of a professional journal published by the university at which the narrator teaches, hears a story which she later tells her husband. The story was told to her by a professor about a bicycle trip he had taken with a friend through Germany in 1936...

The Talk of the Town The Two by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about the reissuing of the two-dollar bill, in 1976. Writer spoke with James A. Conlon, who was then the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, DC. In 1969, Conlon proposed that the Bureau issue a new two because of a demonstrated need for...

A Reporter at Large HUMAN RIGHTS by Elizabeth Drew. A REPORTER AT LARGE about the development of Pres. Carter's human-rights policy and the difficulties of implementing it. Discusses how human rights became an issue for Carter during the campaign and how, soon after he took office, it became an important policy of his administration. Discusses how the human...

Around City Hall Party Lines by Andy Logan. In the current Mayoral race, many of the voters who will cast their ballots on Sept. 8, which is Primary Day, may find that they are able to distinguish among some of the names facing them in the voting booths only because of certain showoff things the candidates said or...

Books Yr. V.W. by William Maxwell.

The Current Cinema The Devil Abroad in Hollywood by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Exorcist II: The Heretic", a sequel to "The Exorcist", directed by John Boorman from William Goodhart's original screenplay...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Talk of the Town Nothing in Mind by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a young woman who lives in Chelsea who tells about her friend who comes from the Midwest. He is upset because soon most cars may come only in economy size and he may not be able to afford gasoline even for these economy-size cars. Tells how...

The Race Track They All Get Beat by G. F. T. Ryall. Seattle Slew, the hitherto unbeaten Triple Crown winner, finished fourth in the Swaps Stakes. His jockey, Cruguet said that, going into the first turn he knew the big dark-bay colt "wasn't himself...

Jazz New York Notes by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction A Summer With No End by Lou Myers. The narrator records in diary form the problems he has with his old mother, who is in a nursing home in the Bronx. She want to home to her old neighborhood even though her son tells her it's a slum. One day she takes a taxi back to her old...

Poetry Red-Tail Hawk And Pyre Of Youth by Robert Penn Warren. Breath clamber-short, face sun-peeled, stones...

Poetry VA. SUN. A.M. DEC '73 by Eleanor Ross Taylor. morning mtns &...