What was going on when I was born?

After six months of frantic buying and selling that saw the price of bullion seesaw from less than $300 an ounce to $875, gold fever appears to have cooled in recent weeks. As trading volume has settled down, so has the price, ...

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 14-- Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and his closest aides have begun drafting guidelines for a United Nations commission that would produce a report that would satisfy Iran, avoid humiliating the United States and obtain the release of the American hostages, Asian diplomats said here today.

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J.--For the last five years, Vahakn Hovnanian has dreamed of creating a $15 million community in this rural Monmouth County township so that some of the estimated 50,000 Armenians scattered throughout the New York metropolitan area could live together "in an atmosphere that would perpetuate our heritage."

THERE are those who say that Greenwich Village has more chic shops than it used to have, and there are those who say that it is more honky-tonk than it used to be, and they are both right.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 14--With a buzzing style of play that brought standing ovations throughout the game, the United States hockey team achieved its second straight upset in the XIII Olympic Winter Games tonight, defeating Czechoslovakia, 7-3.

MIAMI, Feb. 14--A Federal undercover investigation has resulted in the indictment of 55 persons in 10 states in the largest effort ever against film piracy and the distribution of pornography.

QUETTA, Pakistan, Feb. 10--For many people in the stepchild Pakistani province of Baluchistan, the Soviet military occupation of neighboring Afghanistan represents more of an opportunity than a threat.

Completing your Federal tax return does not mean that you are home free. In New York and New Jersey, as well as about 40 other states, there are local forms to fill out. And even people who live in states without an income tax, such as Connecticut, may owe money to the state authorities.

PHOENIX--Best Western International, an association of more than 2,297 hoteliers in 50 states and 18 countries, is to lodging what the Sunkist cooperative is to oranges. A formidable marketer, Best Western exists only to serve its members. It has no shareholders, no company properties and no corporate profits.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14--The Carter Administration is preparing new economic measures that may include selective credit controls and a fresh effort to balance the budget, Alfred E. Kahn, the Presidential anti-inflation counselor, said today.