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February 26, 1972

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From the Issue

The Race Track

THE RACE TRACK

By G. F. T. Ryall

A Reporter at Large

THE RIVER WORLD

By Berton Roueché

Musical Events

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By Ellen Willis

The Talk of the Town

Embattled

By Anthony Hiss

Fiction

The Party

By Donald Barthelme

U.S. Journal

U.S. JOURNAL: BROOKLYN PICKING A JURY

By Calvin Trillin

Books

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By John Updike

Poems

The Watcher

By Jorge Luis Borges

Poems

Chekhov

By Howard Moss

The Talk of the Town

Warden

By Geoffrey T. Hellman

Fiction

The Potato Baron and the Line

By Stephen Tracy

The Theatre

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By Edith Oliver

Fiction

Before Fun City

By Noel Perrin

Comment

Comment

By Donald Barthelme

The Talk of the Town

At the Mercer Arts Center

By George W. S. Trow

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