The Talk of the Town Village Incident by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about a young man whose name the television public will have forgotten by next week who pulled a gun on 10 people in a Greenwich Village bank on 6th Ave. just before closing time one day last week. A little more than 8 hrs. later he was jumped...

The Race Track Bumps by G. F. T. Ryall. Trainer of Snow Knight...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. A friend writes: Because the govt. isn't very good & the N.Y. Cultural Center is being sold and there is so much pornography around, many people are persuaded that these are dark times. I don't yet have a firm opinion, but I've been asking folks. I went to a bomb...

Profiles Physicist~II by Jeremy Bernstein. PROFILE of physicist I.I. Rabi. Tells about radar. Real breakthrough began early in 1940 in Britain. A British technical mission came here & by Nov. '40 a small lab was set up-the Radiation Lab at MIT under Lee A. DuBridge. It is probably no exaggeration to say that the...

The Talk of the Town Another Season by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a visit to the Metropolitan Opera, which has just embarked on its 91st season. Alfred Hubay, the Met's box-office manager, said its economic problems are growing worse, but that there are 7000 new subscribers this year. Writer looked in at various rehearsals: A restaging of the...

Musical Events Here and There in Italy by Andrew Porter.

Letter from Saudi Arabia by Joseph Kraft. Oil wealth, combined with the attention lavished on the assassination of King Faisal last March and the royal succession, has heightened an invidious self-consciousness among the Saudis. They exude confidence and have jettisoned many of the inhibitions Faisal imposed on himself and the country. The new regime, under King...

The Talk of the Town Art From Zaire by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about an exhibit of 100 works of art from the Institute of the National Museums of Zaire (the former Belgian Congo). It is at the African-American Institute across First Ave. from the U.N. Most of the works have newer before been seen outside Zaire. The exhibit was...

The Theatre TWO FAIRY TALES by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Air Hostess by Anthony Delius. The pilot announced Mt. Kilimanjaro on the left and Fellowes thought, "We'll be in Nairobi soon." He was coming from Dar es Salaam, and he had no visa for Kenya. Few countries gave visas on a South African passport like his. He could not explain to the immigration officials that...

Fiction Close Quarters by Charles McGrath. After Martin has paid the bank and the lawyers, he picks up his wife and baby and together they go to look at the new house. Now that the former owner has moved his furniture out, Martin thinks the house is crappy. His wife Kathy thinks it is nice. It...

The Talk of the Town Three Weird Meals by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about three weird meals writer's friend, the fellow-citizen, ate last week. Tells about one had had at the home of his pal Hammerin' Hank, who lives on W. 13th St. While he was there they watched, on television, the progress of an attempted robbery at a nearby...

Books An Aristocrat of Life and Culture by Sanford Schwartz.

The Current Cinema METAPHYSICAL TARZAN by Pauline Kael.

Poetry Suenos by James Reiss. In my dreams I always speak Spanish...

Poetry Last Autumn In Charlottesville by Alan Williamson. As we live, the years stretch farther on less feeling...