Comment by James Stevenson. Letter from a friend about President Ford eating a box lunch as he watched a hand-to-hand combat demonstration at Fort Benning, Ga. Speculates on kind of sandwich he is eating-it could be peanut butter & jelly since there is a cup and a can at his side...

Around City Hall Give me an M by Andy Logan. Tells about budget crisis and its effect on city employees and their unions. The Municipal Assistance Corp., set up in June by the state, as a receivorship device, is finding it difficult to attract investors because they are unwilling to risk their money on this administration. It was found out...

The Race Track Getting and Spending by G. F. T. Ryall. Leslie Combs II sold a colt by Rasie a Native out of Gold Digger to Wallace Gilroy for $625,000...

Fiction Underground by Ted Walker. The childhood memories of Alfred Thomas, who is riding the underground Tube around London before a rendevous with his mistress. He remembers that he was frightened of being sent away, of the "vast crater of separation." The rendevous with his mistress is at a War Memorial in Liverpool Street Station...

Profiles A MIRACLE IN THE DESERT by Winthrop Sargeant. PROFILE of 49-yr.-old John Crosby, founder & General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, which every summer presents the most sophisticated opera in America. It differs from most companies in that it hires young singers, with an occasional star from N.Y. or Europe, & devotes 3-5 wks. to...

A Reporter at Large I-FROM MACARTHUR TO MIKI by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about postwar Japan up to 1954. Tells about how Jpan developed economically after the war despite American attempts to weaken her up to the time of the Cold War when it was decided that Japan should become a strong capitalistic ally against Communism. Divisions within SCAP made...

On Photography Certainties and Possibilities by Janet Malcolm.

Fiction The Political Exile by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Schloss Dreiveiertelstein, an Elfin court in Styria, was an unimportant kingdom whose only notoriety came from the cook's (Ludla) terrific cooking. Food was held dear by all members of the court with the exception of Queen Aigle. She sent the men out on various quests. A young fairy, a political...

The Talk of the Town Monday, July 21, 1975 by Ian Frazier. Talk story about various activities that took place in Manhattan on Monday, July 21, 1975. Writer went to offices, businesses, restaurants, meetings, parks, and recreational activities. He talked with people about what they were doing and listened in on conversations...

The Current Cinema Chabrol's Holy Idiots by Penelope Gilliatt. Director of the British thriller "Hennessy...

Books The Books of Summer by L. E. Sissman.

Poetry The Wheelchairs by Anne Hussey. in the sun they glint they spin...

Poetry Following It by Stephen Berg. A full moon glazes the city...