Television Light-Consciousness by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a newly invented color-television set, the creation of Henry Kloss. His factory in Cambridge, Mass., in the M.I.T. area, produces 100 of them weekly. It is called VideoBeam 1000-A...

U. S. Journal GROUND FLOOR by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: BISBEE, ARIZONA about the decline of Bisbee, a one-company copper-mining town. The town was founded in 1877, & seemed frozen in 1908; since then there had been no private enterprise, no progress--all the town's functions were dependent upon mining. In 1951, Phelps Dodge mining company...

Fiction Snakes' Shoes by Ann Beattie. Sam arranged a meeting between Richard, his brother, and Alice, who was Richard's divorced wife. Alice brought her daughter, and 10-month old son by a second marriage. Everybody was happy except that they thought their getting together was bizarre. When Richard and Alice were engaged, Sam had tried to...

Fiction No Kaddish For Weinstein by Woody Allen. Humorous story about the trials and tribulations of Weinstein, a 50 yr. old Jewish man. He had been a precocious child. At 12, he translated the poems of T.S. Eliot into English after some vandals had broken into the library & translated them into French. Even though his parents were...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Race Track Oops! by G. F. T. Ryall. At Santa Anita in the San Vicente Stakes the winner was Boomie S. Preston King, who trains him for Irwin Feiner, thinks he has the stuff Derby winners are made of...

A Reporter at Large The Survival of the Bark Canoe~II by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about an outing in Maine taken by 5 men in two hand-made bark canoes. Henri Vaillancourt made the canoes & led the outing. Describes their passage up and down various streams. For 30 miles up the Allagash lakes - Chamberlain, Eagle & Churchill Lakes they fought the...

Books Woman's Lot by L. E. Sissman.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. President Ford's "economic" policy seems to emerge as a conservation policy to be paid for with economic sacrifices. But gov't planners have yet to discover any workable plan that would make the U.S. independent in energy in the near future. Ford's policy only offers a display of resoluteness--the appearance...

Musical Events Three Bows to His String by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema Coming: "Nashville" by Pauline Kael. Lengthy essay on "Nashville", a Robert Altman film. An opening date for it has not yet been announced...

The Talk of the Town Entertainer by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about popular singer Lovelace Watkins, an American Creole, who opened at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. In Las Vegas, writer said he will become really big. He is described as a Tom Jones Engelbert Humperdinck clone. He is one of those large-voiced singers of...

The Talk of the Town CONTESTS by Mark Singer. Talk story about the Joke Day in New York contest for children at Town Hall, sponsored by the N.Y.C. Dept. of Recreation & Vlasic Foods, Inc. Bobby Safian won in the elementary-school division. Don Imus m.c.'d the affair. A 2-hour stretch of grown-up performers had to...

Comic Strip Keeping Warm by George Booth. Comic strip about different inventions to keep one's body warm. One of these is a pair of Heated BB boots: You sew canvas boots and slip them over shoes, fill them with hot water and plug them up with cork. Another idea is the Kitchen foil suit which is simply...

Poetry A Letter From the Snow by Shirley Kaufman. My stomach is flat...

Poetry How It Is by Maxine Kumin. Shall I say how it is in your clothes...

Poetry Mime by John Updike. on the black stage he...