What was going on when I was born?

GARFIELD A CONTROVERSIAL painting entitled "Power and Politics" has finally found itself a home in the Public Library here after almost two years of controversy that became the talk of the town.

VENICE THE annual economic summit meeting of the seven major industrial democracies has a different atmosphere about it this year. Disar ray among the allies on political issues is overshadowing economic dialogue, and there is also a sense that common ...

A COMPLEX program of ride sharing, with commuters utilizing park-and-ride stations and van pools to get to and from Westchester County jobs, is being organized for the fall by government officials and representatives of private industry.

"IF HER mother can't help out, I'm sure my mother can," a 17-year-old expectant father said about the care of the in fant. "I know one thing for sure--I'm not ready to be a father."

THE Swiss writer Max Frisch, I am told (and not just by his publisher), is a leading contender for the Nobel Prize. Certainly his published work, written over a 45-year period, has the variousness and originality of style, the weight and humanity of substance, that we expect, and occasionally get, from Nobel laureates.

New York City is reviewing five redevelopment proposals for the Brooklyn Army Terminal overlooking the harbor between the Verrazano Bride and Lower Manhattan.

WASHINGTON, Sunday, June 22--Republican Party officials said this morning that the District of Columbia police had agreed to investigate the possibility that someone had carried out electronic eavesdropping on Mary Crisp, the second-ranking official of the Republican National Committee.

WATER MILL A NETWORK of radio towers designed to facilitate emergency services throughout Suffolk County is in danger of being short-circuited by community groups--homeowners, environmentalists and historians -- who object to their construction.

As a professional photojournalist taking pictures in such diverse places as the bazaars of Marrakesh, the back alleys of Paris and the teeming streets of Rio at carnival time, I have learned the importance of having the right equipment. It is frustrating in the extreme to miss a striking picture for lack of the right lens or filter.

SINCE the accident at Three Mile Island in March 1979, the Jer sey Central Power and Light Company has been granted four rate increases. Among the utility's customers, larger businesses appear to be biting the bullet, but the owners of a number of small businesses are fighting the increases with what amounts to civil disobedience.

VENICE, June 20--Leaders of the seven major non-Communist industrialized nations will open two days of talks tomorrow with two goals uppermost in mind: the restoration of a semblance of unity among themselves and the shaping of policies to deal with Soviet expansionism and with instability in the Middle East.

WHEN the League of Women Voters of Yorktown-Somers recently announced its decision to dis band this year, speculation arose about ...