Profiles by Calvin Trillin. PROFILE of Edna Buchanan, police reporter for the Miami "Herald". Buchanan grew up around Paterson, New Jersey. In a story by David Finkel about her in the St. Petersburg "Times", when asked why she endured the rigors of covering the cops, she replied "It's better than working in a coat...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Francoise Gaspard became the mayor of Dreux, 50 miles from Paris, in 1977. Late in 1982 she began expecting trouble from the right. There are more than 8 1/2 thousand immigrants in Dreux-factory workers & their wives & children. Feeling against them increased. Mme. Gaspard decided that the Front...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Daniel J. Kevles.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Fiction A Night in the Garden by Charles Dickinson. Moss, the captain of Picket Team D, arrived in the rain on the strike's 4th day for the 4-8 am shift. He had blisters from the first day of the strike. On that day the strikers had been enthusiastic. It was late Oct. and the weather was fine. By the...

Fiction Picnic at Amapolas by Harriet Doerr. In the town of La Luz, Mexico, Don Enrique Ortiz prepared to sell his ancestral estate to an American man and an American woman. The man, who was using the false name of Bud Loomis, and the woman, Susanna Ames, had met at a property agent's office 10 days before...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by William Edgett Smith. Comment about Uganda. Its first prime minister, Apollo Milton Obote, was overthrown by his army commander, Idi Amin Dada, in January 1971. Amin proved to be the most murderous ruler that Uganda, & perhaps any modern African state has had; as many as 500,000 of his countrymen were believed to...

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Jonathan Schell. Over the last year or two, there has been a quiet revolution in the negotiating positions of the US & USSR, in their talks on nuclear disarmament. Ideas that were once ignored, or dismissed out of hand, are now taken seriously, & although no one knows yet whether they will...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Talk of the Town With Leo by Mark Singer. Talk story about Leo Hoffman, who repairs kitchen ranges for his employer, the Welbilt Corporation. In the past 15 years, Leo has repaired some 40,000 ranges. For 18 years before that, he worked on the Welbilt assembly line. Writer accompanied Leo one morning as he responded to several service calls...

Poetry Still Alive by Matthew Hansen. Grain from the farms along the Highline...

Poetry In Exile by Deborah Digges. The scars must seem to them like islands the way...