The Air (On Television) TIME, MEMORY, AND NEWS by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town West Indian Weekend by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about attending the third-day festivities of the 7th Annual West Indian-American Day Carnival on the Grounds of the Brooklyn Museum with Antiguan Jamaica Kincaid. Carlos Lezama, who organizes the Carnival each year was there with his wife. Jamaica spoke to writer about attending the Carnival in...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment by Richard N. Goodwin. Pres. Ford has reminded us of the distinction between honesty & truth by first admitting our covert "destabilization" activities in Chile and then justifying them as a response to a situation that in fact did not exist. Our CIA-sponsored effort in Chile, was, the Pres. explained an effort to...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Jockey Sandino Hernandez has been charged with possession of a device for stimulating horses electrically, which is called a buzzer or a joint. Last Friday, the paddock judge at Belmont and a Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau operative got a tip that Hernandez had one of the devices. When they walked...

U. S. Journal SOME ELEMENTS IN A DISPUTE... by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: KANAWHA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA about school boycott against new textbooks, that began on the first day of school this fall. Alice Moore, a Kanawha County school board member, began a local movement to deny approval of new texts that a teachers' committee had recommended last spring. The boycott...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of Louis Malle's film "Lacombe, Lucien...

Fiction The Bird-Watchers by Arturo Vivante. Lavinia, who worked for the Audubon Society, attended a party with her husband where she met an artist who was illustrating an anthology of bird poems for a university in Chicago. As the two spoke about birds, the artist became entranced with Lavinia. His wife was living back east with...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL CHOOSING SIDES by Andy Logan. Howard Samuels, who was defeated in his bid for the Democratic Party nomination for governor, had announced his candidacy in Feb. During the spring it became obvious he was Samuels was going to get the support of the county leaders in the city (the home of nearly three-fifths of...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. As we listened to Pres. Ford at his press conference last week explaining his decision to pardon ex-Pres. Nixon we felt that for the 4th time in about a decade, the nation has suffered the untimely loss of its Pres. He has come down with a familiar virus. Its...

The Talk of the Town Dr. Stanton Revisited by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Dr. Frank Stanton, who retired from CBS 18 months ago. Tells what he is doing at present...

Our Footloose Correspondents II-WELCOME ABOARD THE M/V ADJARIA by Natacha Stewart. OUR FOOTLOOSE CORRESPONDENTS about continuation of voyage aboard the Soviet ship M/v Adjaria; it started & ended at Odessa, with stops at various ports from the Black Sea to the Adriatic. Writer tells about activities on the ship & about the cities visited: Dubrovnik, Brindisi, Piraeus, Athens, Istanbul, &...

Fiction Around the Horne by Garrison Keillor. By Bill Horne Column by Ed Farr (today's replacement for Bill Horne who is sick) about the Flyers, a baseball team that played poorly this season. Farr tries to make constructive comments about the team & begins first by reprimanding the fans who did not play a supportive role with...

Poetry Quarrels by Alastair Reid. I can feel a quarrel blowing up in your body...

Poetry Animal by Laura Jensen. I live beneath a house...