What was going on when I was born?

SUPERINTENDENTS in most of the county's 40 school districts are spending fewer years in one school district, preferring instead to move on to better-paying jobs in larger, more challenging districts, according to a number of school administrators.

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation moved through the Bronx yesterday afternoon serving more than 20 subpoenas on Bronx politicians and alleged members of organized crime. The subpoenas demanded financial records for a Federal grand jury.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 9--A justice of the State Supreme Court Appellate Division signed an order today that temporarily prevents Liang Renguay, ...

YONKERS THE sloop Woody Guthrie, the first of the "Clearwater children," will be joined on the Hudson River this year by a sister vessel, Sojourner Truth, now nearing completion on the Yonkers waterfront.

IN the 1960's and early 1970's, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was allowed to publish his work only after protracted negotiations involving Party bureau crats and the editors of the journal Novy Mir. Printed here are the opening pages of "The Oak and the Calf," Solzhenitsyn's memoir of Russian literary politics in those years, to be published in May by Harper Row.

"Temporarily Out of Order, Please Use Other Door," reads the sign posted on a main door at Abraham Straus, Brooklyn.

BRIDGEPORT NTIL now, the thought of Bridgeport hardly conjured up a setting normally associated with torrid love scenes. Such scenes were usually more appropriately staged in Venice, Paris or even--provided it was autumn--in New York.

WASHINGTON--In October, when Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, pushed through measures intended to tighten controls on growth of the nation's money supply, his principal goal seemed to be to soothe fears of explosive increases and the inflation that might result.

SIXTEEN years ago, former County Executive Edwin G. Michaelian recalled last week, "the county was faced with the same problem it faces today"--the expiration at the end of the year of the Playland Commission, the semiautonomous agency that has been running the popular park in Rye since 1940.

NEW HAVEN SALLY Robertson, a 65-year-old New Haven woman who lives alone in a downtown apartment building, stopped using taxicabs about eight months ago.

Two days ago Herb Brooks was worried that his United States Olympic hockey team was too confident. "We might need a good kicking to bring us down to earth," he said. Yesterday at Madison Square Garden, they got that kicking.

IN his preface to this impressive selection of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, John Willett speculates on why Brecht is only today beginning to be appreci ated as a poet of major stature--perhaps a greater poet even than playwright, as Auden believed him to be. His early poems, which appeared in the 1920's, ...