The Talk of the Town Yes and No by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Alan Sonfist and his reforestation project on LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and Houston streets in Lower Manhattan. Sonfist is a 31 year old artist. He grew up in West Farms, a tough section of the South Bronx, where he wandered around Bronx Park, and decided he would...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL STOPPING THE CLOCK by Andy Logan. Mayor Koch was relieved on April 1st to announce an agreement had been reached with the local Transport Workers Union and Metropolitan Transit Authority, averting a transit strike. The new contract stipulates a 6% increase in salary. The city's critics in Washington, D.C., on whom New York is dependent for...

The Talk of the Town Visiting Editor by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about Hilary Ng'weno, of Nairobi, Kenya, here to receive an award. He presides over an East African publishing complex that consists of the Nairobi "Times", a Sunday paper; "The Weekly Review" an African counterpart of "The Economist"; and "Rainbow", a children's weekly. At 25 he was editor-in...

Fiction A Rose in the Heart by Edna O'Brien. Story about a mother and daughter in Ireland. The mother is helped by a midwife to give birth with a great deal of pain. She and the daughter she bore become inseperable. The sleep in the same bed. The father is an inconsiderate man who beats his wife. They are...

The Talk of the Town Yes and No by Mark Singer. Talk story about reception to honor Jane Jacobs, urban thinker and writer, and to raise funds to fight Westway, the proposed interstate highway for West Side Manhattan. Though newspapers make it sound as if Westway is inevitable, Jacobsites (staunch believers in the human scale and in stabilizing neighborhoods) say the...

Fiction Morning by Donald Barthelme. Dialogue about fears. A man is afraid of his hands, of breaking glass, of morning; of one old man alone in a room. He has been to a party where he talked to dull people, fixed up the punch in an effort to be gay, and admired a bride he...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

A Reporter at Large BRZEZINSKI by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the Pres. for National Security Affairs. He is at the center of the system for making foreign and defence policy and the person who spends the most time with the Pres. on questions concerning foreign policy He is the one who most...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "The Last Waltz", a Martin Scorsese film commemorating actual rock-and-roll stars of the sixties...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Last Sunday Redmond C. Stewart, Jr.'s Ben Nevis II won the Grand National point-to-point race at Butler, Maryland, for the seconc consecutive year. He was ridden by Stewart's son-in-law, Charles C. Fenwick, Jr. who is also Ben Nevis II's trainer...

Comment by Daniel Menaker. After the second Panama Canal Treaty was passed last week, Brigidier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's head of state, told reporters that if it had been rejected, his Army would have "liberated" the Canal. "Tomorrow we would have begun the struggle for liberation..." Now, it's true that this statement would...

Poetry Stars and Stripes: Liberty Bell March That Moment Long by David Sofield. One, two, three, four, now let your foot take flight...