Profiles I-FROM RABUN GAP TO TYBEE LIGHT by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of Georgia, President Jimmy Carter's home state. Tells about Georgia's colonial history: it was settled in 1733 when 114 colonists, led by James Oglethorpe, arrived in Savannah from England. Tells about Savannah, then and now, and goes on to discuss Madison, Athens, Americus, Plains, and other principal cities. Agriculture...

The Talk of the Town Jams by Mark Singer. Talk story about the Lasker Skate Crew and disco music played at Lasker Rink in the northern end of Central Park. The Skate Crew is a group of Harlem teenagers who help smooth down the ice and run the sound system, which consists of their own recordplayer and records. James...

The Talk of the Town Ask Mayor Koch by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about "Ask Mayor Koch", a two-hour radio show broadcast on a recent Sunday afternoon on Station WCBS. Mayor Koch answered 34 questions from listeners. Callers were screened but questions and answers were unrehearsed. Mr. Koch spoke for two hours without a note and seemed to enjoy every...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain," directed by Lina Wertmuller...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Our Footloose Correspondents Comment by Faith McNulty. A New England correspondent writes about the snow in southern Rhode Island. They don't often have deep snow there and when they do the politicans ask Washington for emergency aid. The day after the recent big storm while Wash. was making up its mind, the writer conducted her own survey...

Comment by Ian Frazier. The other day we received a letter from a young man we know saying that Heloise Bowles, the premier household-hints columnist of all time, died at the end of 1977 and he was sorry because he liked her a lot. He only knew her through her column, "Hints from...

Fiction A Crossing by John Rolfe Gardiner. Lucille Hovater, fifteen, is standing with Dorsey Hensley, same age, holding hands in the Clayton Shopping Center. Though they both live close by, Lucille came by car with her mother and Dorsey hitched, because to walk they would have to cross the 8-lane Beltway. Dorsey and Lucille like the...

Fiction Ruth by Ted Walker. The narrator's mother calls, as she does every year on his sister's birthday, to say "You know what today is." The mother says the sister, Ruth, (who died 21 days after birth) would have been forty today and she begins to cry. The narrator--who was three when Ruth died...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Mickey Taylor and Dr. James Hill, owners of Seattle Slew, said in an interview that the 1977 Horse of the Year had recovered from a recent ailment and that his condition was much improved, but that they had not yet decided whether to race him again or send him to...

Reflections NOTES FROM LATIN AMERICA by Alastair Reid. REFLECTIONS about Latin America. Feelings toward the U.S. from Latin America are infinitely complex, for since the Second World War the U.S. has taken the place of Europe as the dominant cultural influence, as it had already established itself as the dominant economic influence. The issue that has attracted the...

Poetry And by Albert Goldbarth. So you sleep, and I sleep...

Poetry Brighton Rock by Joseph Brodsky. And so you are returning, livid flush of early dusk...

Poetry Trader by Robert Mazzocco. There you'll encounter...