What was going on when I was born?

HOUSTON, July 16--Every morning it is the same. The air is pleasantly balmy as the first, faint light of day appears over the oaks and pines. But as soon as the sun peeks above the treeline, the heat is felt. By late afternoon it is 100 degrees or more, and fluffy white clouds, rainless clouds that don't show up on radar weatherscopes, drift across the sky atop torrid ...

Korvettes Inc. will close half of its remaining department stores by Aug. 1 as part of a survival plan that includes turning over to three New York banks and an insurance company 25 percent of the retail chain's earnings through 1987.

WASHINGTON, July 16--The Carter Administration is exploring ways to help the depressed steel industry, possibly including a negotiated settlement of the United States Steel Corporation's antidumping petition against European steelmakers, Administration officials said today.

LOS ANGELES, July 16--New television technologies are altering patterns of power and wealth that have prevailed in the entertainment industry for decades and appear to be leading to fundamental changes in the way film entertainment is delivered to American consumers.

DETROIT, Thursday July 17--A jubilant Republican Party formally proclaimed Ronald Reagan as its nominee last night and then heard this morning, after one of the most dramatic aboutfaces of recent convention politics, that George Bush would be his Vice-Presidential running mate.

Prices rose sharply and yields declined in the credit markets yesterday amid signs that the Federal Reserve has eased its monetary policy a notch. "The odds strongly favor an easing move," commented one dealer in Government securities.

DETROIT, Thursday, July 17--Ronald Reagan picked George Bush, his most persistent foe in the primaries, to run for Vice President early today after coming close to arranging to have former President Gerald R. Ford serve as his running mate in exchange for a sweeping promise of power in key fields of Presidential authority.

Four people were critically burned and 18 others were less seriously injured last night in a gas explosion in a luxury apartment building at 225 East 36th Street, in the Murray Hill section.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. DRIVING home from her summer place in Maine a few years ago, the sculptor Hazel Brill Jackson stopped in Mas sachusetts and bought a commercially made fountain--basically two rocks and a small recirculating pump. She set it up in the patio of her home here.

"I WANTED to simplify my life," said Hazel Haire. "I fancied a place where I could stand in the middle and hose the whole thing down."

DETROIT, July 16--Like most good Ronald Reagan crowds, they brought their autograph pads and their Instamatics. Some had come in pickup trucks with "America: Repent or Per ish" signs and others in ...

Dr. John Buettner-Janusch, a prominent New York University anthropology professor, was convicted yesterday of illegally manufacturing drugs in his university laboratory.