What was going on when I was born?

THE spotlight is now on pasta as the ideal food in these health-conscious, economically pressured times. The little pasta shop, once the specialty of Italian neighborhoods, has become as familiar on Madison Avenue as on Grand Street. And as the clientele has changed, so has the pasta.

WASHINGTON, May 27 President Carter has decided to oppose the proposed Congressional budget of $613.3 billion for the fiscal year 1981 on the ground that it devotes too much money to military spending and too little for jobs, cities, transportation and income security, a senior Administration official announced today.

ONE interesting aspect of nouvelle versus traditional cooking the rules of which were laid down at the turn of the century by Auguste Escoffier and which persisted until about a dozen years ago, has to do with the term codification...

President Carter rolled to landslide victories over Senator Edward M. Kennedy yesterday in the Arkansas and Kentucky Presidential primaries and won narrowly in Nevada.

The body of a 5-year-old Staten Island girl who disappeared during a Memorial Day picnic was found yesterday in the septic tank beneath the lawn on which she was last seen playing. Although the police said they had no reason to suspect foul play, they added that there would be a continuing investigation into the circumstances of the girl's death.

TORONTO, May 27 By one estimate, Canadian enterprises will invest a staggering $1,300 billion in capital projects during this decade, with $400 billion going into energy alone. About half of the total will likely come from...

A chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Farmingdale, L.I., and his son have been indicted on Federal charges of conspiring to sell amphetamines and hallucinogenic drugs that the professor allegedly made in laboratories at the college and in his basement.

JERUSALEM, May 27 Prime Minister Menachem Begin proposed today that the post of Defense Minister be filled by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a strong supporter of Jewish settlements in...

GREENWICH, Conn. In the slanting late afternoon sunlight, bright tulips sway gently on the lawn in front of the stately porticoed building. Above a row of immaculate white columns guarding the door, gleaming gold letters spell out "Greenwich Town Hall."

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27 Former President Milton Obote returned home to Uganda today after nine years of exile in Tanzania and pledged to work for "national reconstruction and reconciliation."

SUNNY SLOPE, IDAHO LIGHTNING danced across the hillsides above the Snake River here the other night as big raindrops fell on the vineyards, bringing relief to the thirsty vines of Ste. Chapelle that are making American...