What was going on when I was born?

NEW DELHI, June 23--Several thousand men, women and children filed through the home of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today to glimpse the body of her son Sanjay, who was killed with his flight instructor in the crash of a small aerobatic plane early this morning.

Real cigarettes, the Edsel of the tobacco business, were laid to rest yesterday.

About 125 firemen were injured last night in an acrid, smoky fire that broke out in a 44-story office building on Park Avenue and sent flames shooting into the evening sky for several hours.

AFTER more than a year of elaborate observations with optical and radio telescopes in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, as well as from an earth satellite, not only has the discovery of a gravitational "lens" far out in space apparently been confirmed but another has been reported.

Representative John M. Murphy, Democrat of Staten Island, lost a bid yesterday to speed his trial on charges of accepting bribes and have it begin next Monday.

Thousands of transit and regular city police, their badges covered with mourning ribbon, paid tribute yesterday to Officer Joseph Keegan of the Transit Police, who was killed with his own gun Thursday while attempting to eject a loiterer from the subway station at Columbus Circle.

VENICE, June 23--President Carter and the leaders of six other major industrial nations pledged today that their Governments would seek to develop sufficient alternative energy sources by 1990 to cut sharply into oil consumption while allowing economic growth to continue.

The Chrysler Corporation, with a crucial guarantee from the Federal Government, is borrowing $500 million today by selling notes priced to give investors a yield of 10.35 percent--threequarters of a percentage point more than they could get from the Government's own securities.

WASHINGTON, June 23--Public commitments by Government officials to the doubled consumption of coal in place of oil, as the leaders of the Western alliance pledged in Venice today, have become a fixed, if unfulfilled, part of energy rhetoric in this country since 1974.

LAUREL, Md. FINAL arrangements have been made to transplant six young fully fledged Andean condors from their wire cages at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center here to the rugged mountainsides of Peru in an unusual scientific experiment that has aroused the interest of wildlife researchers around the world.

The decentralization of New York City's public schools, carried out a decade ago after long political turmoil and three months of bitter teachers' strikes, has failed to fulfill hopes that it would significantly raise the educational achievement of the city's schoolchildren.