The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. At Hot Springs, Arkansas Miss Musket won the $100,000 Fantasy Stakes. She was ridden by Shoemaker and it was his hundredth victory in a five-figure stakes race...

On Television Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about the undue influence of the Nixon Administration on television & resultant censorship. Quotes from a memo that came out during the Watergage investigation that had to do with "balance' on television programs. Charles Colson had been reporting to H.R. Haldeman on a meeting he had in Sept. 1970...

Letter from Rome by William Murray. In the building boom of the last decade some extremely inadequate housing has gone up in working-class districts of Rome. Inhabitants live packed together in squalid-looking stone canyons created by rows of slablike apartment houses, where most public services & facilities, from schools to parks, are either inadequate...

The Theatre ON ACTING by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town This Way to the Egress by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about a midtown elephant ride courtesy of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., the circus. It has been the custom for about a century for circusses to allow journalists an elephant ride in return for an avalanche of publicity. The elephant he rode was called...

Musical Events by David Hamilton.

The Talk of the Town Flavors & Fragrance by John McPhee. Talk story about the International Flavors & Fragrances company at 521 West 57th Street, where Dr. Simpsey Kuramoto, a microbiologist and food technologist, heads a team of scientists who create artificial flavors and fragrances for commercial use. Dr. Kuramoto opined that people were wrong to think that artificially reproduced foods...

Fiction A Platonic Relationship by Ann Beattie. Ellen, a thirty-two year old high school music teacher is in the process of getting a divorce from her lawyer husband. She has dinner with him in a restaurant several months after leaving him and tells him about Sam, a young twenty-year old law student at George Washington...

Fiction Let's Hear It For A Beautiful Guy by Bruce Jay Friedman. Sammy Davis, the internationally renowned entertainer has repeatedly tried to get a few months off from his hectic schedule for a complete rest. The writer feels that if he could break through Davis's agents & entourage, he could convince Davis, who has given him a great deal of joy, to...

The Current Cinema SCAMPS by Penelope Gilliatt.

Profiles THE UGANDA ASIANS by Jane Kramer. PROFILE of the members of Akbar Hassan's family, who are among the 27,000 Uganda Asian settlers forced to leave for England when Gen. Amin expelled them from Uganda in 1972. In Uganda, Hassan was considered a big capitalist man by the other Asian families in his small village. He had...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI REFLECTIONS OF SOMEONE WHOSE HOME TOWN HAS BECOME A GLAMOUR CITY by Calvin Trillin. The Hallmark Corp. calls its Crown Center in Kansas City a city within a city. Kansas City has decided to take on the trappings that will supposedly mark it as what a Crown Center brochure calls "one of the 'hot cities' of the early seventies": an international airport, a hugh...

The Talk of the Town Lindsay am Arlberg by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about an interview with former Mayor John Lindsay in Zurs am Arlberg, a skiing village in the Austrian Alps. He is three months along on an eight month decompression junket he is taking with his wife, Mary, and 13-yr.-old John, Jr. When the Lindsays return to...

Poetry Lost in Translation by James Merrill. A card table in the library stands ready...