Dancing Put Out More Flags by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Four Civic Gatherings by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the opening of the New York City Bicentennial Banner Exhibition at 345 Park Avenue, the headquarters building of Bristol-Myers and of the Rudin Management Company, Incorporated, who sponsored the exhibit. The New York City Bicentennial Banner Exhibition celebrates the people, buildings, neighborhoods, and history of the...

Musical Events Flour of Wyfly Pacience by Andrew Porter.

A Reporter in Washington Winter Notes~III by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes from Mar. 10 to Apr. 6, on the Democratic Presidential candidates. Tells about a press conference by Jimmy Carter at O'Hare Airport, Chicago. Speculations about the Illinois primary. This is when his campaign went national & he became a serious, determined candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for...

The Talk of the Town Four Civic Gatherings by Susan Sheehan. Talk story about an official midmorning ceremony last week, when New York City opened to the public the Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway, and thereby became the only urban community in the country with aerial-tramway transportation. The tramway, which serves the newly developed residential community on Roosevelt Island, runs 3134...

Comment by Richard Harris. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a police-training and general liberal-arts college, held an International Criminal Justice Seminar. Writer listened to Chief Constable Lawrence Byford, of Lincolnshire, England cite comparative crime statistics for Great Britain and the United States. Said that in 1970, there were 16,000 murders...

The Theatre UP IN MICHIGAN by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Four Civic Gatherings by Ellen Willis. Talk story about "Ruckus Manhattan," an exhibition of sculptures by Red Grooms and The Ruckus Construction Co., at the Marlborough Gallery, on West 57th St. Part of "Ruckus" was shown down on Pine Street last winter; the expanded, uptown version will be on display through July 16th. Grooms calls it...

Fiction Tribe by Francine du Plessix Gray. Writer visits the home of her father's family in Nantes after an absence of 27 years. She goes to the castle of Saint-Seran where the family had lived since 1560. Her fat, 76-year-old Aunt Charlotte lives there. She asks about Pres. Nixon's resignation and tells her about...

The Talk of the Town Four Civic Gatherings by Jervis Anderson. Talk story about an all-day conference at Hunter College for block-association activists from all 5 bouroughs in New York City. It was sponsored by the Citizens Committee for New York City, the Federation of Citywide Block Associations, and the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services. More than 1300 activists...

Fiction Swine Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Richard Leibmann-Smith. History was made last week at the annual Academy Awards night, when for the first time a single disease captured virtually every major prize given by the prestigious American Academy of Medicine. The Swine Flu virus was a relatively unknown pathogen whose last starring role was in 1918. At an...

The Current Cinema Price by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Penn's film "The Missour Breaks...

U. S. Journal Thoughts During a Filibuster on Subways by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: ANNAPOLIS, MD. about reasons for filibuster by the Maryland state senate during debate on the proposed Baltimore subway system. Traditionally, the state legislature has been dominated by rural and suburban representatives unwilling to spend money on urban areas. Suburbanization and auto worship has reduced the number of cities...

Poetry Ask The Roses by Philip Levine. Snow fell forward forever...

Poetry Tennis: A Portrait by Howard Moss. Always careful not to be kind...