What was going on when I was born?

FROM "They Didn't Believe Me" in 1914 to "Long Ago and Far Away" in 1944, Jerome Kern com posed some of the most elegant, sweetly subtle and, yes, haunting melodies the American stage and ...

The summer film season is off to a miserable start, and audiences are being subjected to such sad spectacles that they're fighting back with in difference, absenteeism, rudeness and all the other weapons at their command.

SUDBURY, Mass.--For many engineers at the International Harvester Company's solar turbine division in California, sitting at desks drawing precise designs on paper is no longer necessary.

Ten days ago the New York City Rent Guidelines Board approved a new set of rent increases that will affect tenants in hundreds of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments. The board acted not only on regular increases for lease ...

ALPINE MANY municipalities have amateur theater, orchestra and chorale groups that are well supported by local residents. Auditoriums are full during performances, and donations to fund-raising events are usually adequate and, sometimes, substantial.

HUNTINGTON BAY HILLS WHEN the distant rumble of the garbage truck breaks the early morning quiet here, Dennis and Jean Gai no longer have to make up for their forgetfulness the night before by vaulting ...

WHEN the state legislators closed shop in Albany three weeks ago and raced home to campaign for re election, they left hanging a number of issues critical to Long Island.

GREENWICH THE planned development of three office buildings and a conference center in the Town of Rye, just across the Connecticut border in Westchester County, is drawing vigorous opposition in Greenwich, where officials see further burdens on already congested roads and highways, and it is attracting concern as far away as Mt. Vernon and New York City.

The huge regional shopping malls of suburban and exurban areas are experiencing a new challenge from smaller neighborhood and community strip centers, specialists in shopping center development report.

STERLING WHEN the Revere Textile Print Mill burned last March, the townspeople were worried about four things--who started the fire, where they would find new jobs, how the mill's loss would affect property tax rates, and whether Howard Glick, the owner, would rebuild the mill that, under different ownerships and names, had stood at Route 14 and Main Street since the turn of the century.

LOS ANGELES THEY can be seen rising near the edges of al most every American city these days-- sprawling, often monotonous clusters of buildings that look like rental apartments but aren't.