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Cover
It seems to be New York City, but is it? What’s happening? Is it a city going down the drain or merely a city suffering withdrawal after years of living on an irresponsible fiscal high? Page 8.
Collage by Seymour Chwast
6 Sunday Observer
Right? Wrong!
By Russell Baker
8 How New York became a fiscal junkie
On the path to debt addiction, there were the expense fix, the revenue fix, the capital fix and the outright deficit fix.
By Steven R. Weisman
10 Parent and Child: The business in babies
Misery results from both surplus and shortage in the adoption market.
By Sheila K. Johnson
12 “I’m the biggest model, period.”
Great face, great figure, great personality, the supergirl next door insists she’s more than just the biggest black model in the business.
By Ted Morgan
28 Détente on the rocks
No thaw yet for the Eskimos of Little Diomede, a short walk from Big Diomede, Asia and tomorrow.
By Winthrop Griffith
32 Letters
On the continuing divisiveness of Vietnam
Fashion: Kids’ clothes
42 Nice and neat
By Mary Ann Crenshaw
52 Design
Living aloft
By Jane Geniesse
60 Food
Hot summer, hot soup
By Craig Claiborne with Pierre Franey
69 Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 70
79 Endpaper
The passive smoker’s gas mask
Picture credits, Page 76