What was going on when I was born?

Three months after the agreement on a Transport Workers Union contract, the New York City Transit Authority has not realized any of the productivity gains it had predicted when the contract was negotiated, and officials said yesterday there would be no gains for at least two more months.

Parents and homeowners in Laurelton, Queens, believing that city officials are giving a low priority to the area's problems with drug addiction and crime, have decided to combat the problems on their own. They formed a youth group and are trying to raise money among themselves and through philanthropic and governmental sources.

TOKYO, July 15--Without a single balloon or funny hat, Japan's Liberal Democrats selected Zenko Suzuki today to be their party's leader. The Parliament, which they dominate, is expected to elect him prime minister on Thursday.

The Greater New York Savings Bank, one of the largest savings banks in the city, had an exceptional loss of almost $33 million in April, May and June as a result of speculation in Government-insured mortgages, according to a report it filed with the New York State Banking Department.

WASHINGTON, July 15--In a report that tackles one of the most controversial questions in utility regulation, the General Accounting Office recommends that national standards be developed for deciding whether, or to what extent, power companies can include uncompleted facilities in their rate bases.

DETROIT, July 15--Car sales by the Big Three United States auto makers continued their modest improvement in early July over the previous two months, but fell short of the year-ago pace on a daily basis by 19.7 percent, the companies reported today.

DETROIT, July 15--In adopting the longest party platform in American political History, the Republican Party took nearly 40,000 words to tell the American ...

THERE has been a fish market at the place called Billingsgate for at least 1,100 years, and perhaps since Roman times. It was there by the River Thames in 1666 when the Great Fire of London began only a few blocks away. By that time, the pungent language of its merchants was already so well known that its name had become a synonym for abuse and violent invective.

WASHINGTON, July 15--The United States has agreed to sell Britain ballistic missiles and support technology to enable it to modernize and maintain its seabased nuclear deterrent force into the 21st century, American and British officials announced today.

Although the conservative National Review and the liberal New Republic are poles apart politically as jounnals of opinion, they have joined forces to offset the impact of increased postal rates by setting up an independent foundation for fund raising.