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WASHINGTON, March 1--Arthur H. Christy, the special Federal prosecutor appointed to investigate allegations that Hamilton Jordan used cocaine, has convened a grand jury. and subpoenaed information from ABC News for possible use as evidence, according to persons familiar with the investigation.

FAIRFIELD IS a wood stove tax deductible as an energy-saving improvement to the home? Have there been any recent changes in allowable deductions for an office in the house?

IT is difficult to imagine a good ski resort in the Alps that has not been discovered by Americans and overrun by Europeans. La Plague, one of the newest and largest ski areas in the French Alps, is just ...

Pity the reader of economic journalism, the diligent American who feels an obligation, personal or patriotic, to sort through the data of the day.

WASHINGTON--Cotton, the one-time monarch and chief provider of the Old South's agriculture, is moving back onto its throne. Exports are at their highest level in 47 years and the price of a pound of cotton has increased more than 25 percent over the last year.

WASHINGTON AS Congress mixes legislating with politicking in a hectic election-year atmosphere, the Island's six members of the House of Representatives are pressing for a wide assortment of measures ranging from preserving Long Island Sound and its shoreline to requiring Japan to spend much more for its own defense.

When he announced his decision to seek re-election last week, Senator Jacob K. Javits had passed only the first of several obstacles on his way to a fifth term.

The taxi fare increase approved last Wednesday by New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission will be postponed until April 1 while a team of city auditors reviews the data on which it was based, the commission's chairman said yesterday.

WASHINGTON AFTER a painful climb upward from near the bottom in per capita Federal aid--42d place among the 50 states in 1974, the first year of the Byrne era-- to a not-so-bad 23d ranking in 1978, New Jersey has slipped a bit, dropping to 26th place in the 1979 compilations.

IN movie theaters throughout the Island, audiences watch a twominute short that shows a couple buying a car hidden under covers from a shifty-eyed character with a mustache who might frighten most youngsters. The couple want to see the car before they put down their money, but the salesman demands the money before they can get a peek.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. NOLAN RYAN, Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, Tug McGraw, Skip Lockwood--ghosts of seasons past, the men whose arms once brought the "magic" to the New York Mets, are memories as a new spring arrives in baseball.

Martin E. Segal loves culture, which is why he joins cultural boards and institutions, and sometimes even starts them. He is presi dent of the Cultural Assistance Center, ...