Profiles WE HAVE ALWAYS SURVIVED by Robert Shaplen. PROFILE of Saigon, S. Vietnam. Tells about the French colonization of Vietnam, & of the Japanese invasion & control of Indo-China during W.W. II...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Benson and Hedges cigarettes, is putting up forty thousand pounds for a race at York in England this summer. It will be known as the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup and will be run on Aug. 15th. Coming about a month after the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes...

The Talk of the Town Scientific President by Niccolo Tucci. Talk story about Giorgio Bassani, President of Italia Nostra, an organization for the protection of Italian art treasures, historic landscapes, & natural resources They will put on an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum next month. Writer discusses ecology with Bassani who is a professor of Italian literature & the author...

Dept. of Amplification by Jane Kramer. DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION about Northern Ireland. (LETTER FROM IRELAND: Feb. 19, 1972) British Prime Minister Edward Heath's imposition of direct rule on N. Ireland startled those Catholics who had read his conscessions during the past year to Brian Faulkner, the Northern Prime Minister, as a sign that Britain was determined...

The Talk of the Town Bakery by Susan Sheehan. Talk story about the Peter Pan Bake Shop, at 107-11 Continental Ave., in the Forest Hills section of Queens. At 11:30 in the morning there are 15 people in the shop, a good sized rectangular room--3 saleswomen & 12 customers. There are refrigerated cases for perishable items & Iced...

Fiction A Sliver At Night by Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly. As they were getting ready for bed, writer's wife complained of something in her toe-a little piece of wood. He's Hungarain, & she's Polish, & though they speak English very well, it took a moment before they remembered the word was sliver. His wife told him how to say...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA UNMISSED PERSON by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about a woman's body found Oct. 31, 1969, St. Petersburg, Fla. in a trunk 15-20 yds. from the parking lot of the Oyster Bar restaurant which still remains unidentified. Body found in the wooded area by a parks dept. employee walking there after lunch. Woman had been dead...

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Talk of the Town Where It's At by Jill Harris. A young lady we know has reminded us that there'll always be a Philadelphia. She ran into a middle-aged woman the other day at a cocktail party and happened to mention that she hailed from the City of Brotherly Love. "How wonderful!" said the matron. "My daughter lives on...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Tomorrow", a film taken from a short story by William Faulkner; written by Horton Foote, directed by Joseph Anthony...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The new fighting in Vietnam, which could bring the entire war to its conclusion, finds the U.S. in a mood of drugged silence. Nearly everybody is behaving as though it all had nothing to do with us... As for the Administration it has not said anything substantive about the war...

The Talk of the Town by Philip Hamburger. Sign observed by one of our friends on a shelf in the book department of the Yale Co-Op: POLITICAL SCIENCE Arranged alphabetically by author Theoretically, at least...

The Talk of the Town Reborn by Brendan Gill. Talk story about a gala for Charlie Chaplin sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. After 20 years, the incomparable dandy appeared on the stage of Philharmonic Hall, 83 years old, but with an air of undiminished health & youth. The clapping & shouting went on as if it...

Fiction The Inside-Out by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Two children in England, Clive & Stella, stood outside Ullapool, their new home, & watched the furniture being carried in. It was a semidetached house; the other half was called Sorrento. Their father, noticing them standing there, suggested they explore the garden in the back. It seemed much nearer nightfall...

Fiction A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Akhsa, a Jewish orphan in Poland, was brought up by her wealthy grandparents. She was intelligent & beautiful but everything went badly for her in the end. Her grandmother rejected numerous suitors for her. After the old lady's death, she imagined that her voice continued to reject suitors so Akhsa...

Poetry Letter to Barbados by Ted Walker. Dear, far-off brother, Thank you for yours...

Poetry The Bicycle Chain by John Updike. Left lying in the grass, unconnected to anything...