A Reporter at Large ALIGNMENTS AMONG THE NONALIGNED by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about a summit meeting a few weeks ago in Havana, of the Nonaligned Nations. The meeting, with 94 participants, lasted a fortnight. Fidel Castro and his radical friends thoroughly dominated the conference and Castro was the acknowledged star. In his opening speech he said, "Yes, we are...

The Talk of the Town Storytellers by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the first WNYC Storytelling Festival which took place recently, lasting a week. Twenty storytellers came to New York at the invitation of WNYC, New York's municipal radio station. They told stories on the air andall over town. The festival was organized by Diane Wolkstein, who tells stories...

Obituary G. F. T. Ryall by Robert MacMillan. Obituary of G.F.T. (George Francis Trafford) Ryall, who wrote "The Race Track" for over 52 years. He died on Monday, Oct. 8, at the age of 92...

Comment by James Stevenson. From the south side of a block in the West Eighties, one can see the backs of several empty tenements. As we walked along one afternoon, we heard high, wailing sounds from one of the hollow buildings. The sounds were oddly musical and seemed to have some pattern. The source...

The Theatre INVENTING THE PAST by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town A Short Guide to Lighthouse Park by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt IsLand, the city's newest park. It was built in 10 months by the Roosevelt Island Development Corp., with a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. The lighthouse in the park was designed by 19th cen. architect James Renwick, Jr...

The Talk of the Town Three Commercial Gatherings by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about 3 promotional parties, the third at the Sheraton Center where the Ford Motor Co. displayed its 1980 models and a new electronic option package. The 1980 cars are enormous. The new options include an electronic digital speedometer that works in kilometers and miles per hour, a computer...

The Current Cinema EXASPERATION by Renata Adler.

Fiction The Last of October by Ted Walker. The writer harvests his apple crop in the company of his ageing father. His mother picks up windfall apples and potters about the garden; his wife works in the kitchen. Writer's two children left home to live on a commune. Writer nursed his sorrow by tending the apple trees; he'd...

Fiction Husbands by Charles McGrath. Twenty-two husbands who have left their wives or whose wives have kicked them out live together in a mansion. They are all depressed. The village council has received a complaint about too many unrelated people living under one roof. The wives have boyfriends and take ballet lessons and classes...

Musical Events by Nicholas Kenyon.

Onward and Upward with the Arts Thirty Seconds-II by Michael J. Arlen. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about producing a TV commercial for A.T.&T. Long Lines, directed toward people who make long-distance phone calls. Steve Horn, Inc. filmed the commercial which consists of 5 interlocking but unrelated vignettes, for N.W. Ayer, A.T.&T.'s ad agency. Tells...

Poetry Nara Park: Twilight Deer Feeding by Laurence Lieberman. Toward evening, sky's aqua...