What was going on when I was born?

WHATEVER happened to Danish Modern? Where has all the furnicure gone that was such a tidal wave of good taste and good design in the 1950's? Danish dominated every prestigious design exhibition and profitable furniture promotion; it was in all the best model rooms, ...

Uptown and downtown, along Fifth Avenue and in Central Park, Manhattan is blossoming with outdoor artists. Some are professionals, but many more are amateurs who cart along their easels or carry their sketchpads for the sheer joy of painting or drawing the city's endless parade of images and colors. Like the city's sidewalk musicians and its street-corner mimes, the outdoor artists themselves make a pleasing addition to the summer scene.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to approve at an open meeting tomorrow a series of rules intended to simplify the agency's corporate disclosure system, which serves as the major channel of information un domestic publicly owned corporations.

Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey met last summer with an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation posing as an Arab sheik who was willing to bribe American public officials for political favors, the Senator's attorney confirmed yesterday.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--Two of Billy Carter's financial advisers testified today that when they met briefly at the White House with President Carter, the President never asked them about his brother's financial problems.

The Allied Chemical Corporation has outbid more than 10 other leading companies seeking to purchase the extremely valuable oil properties of the Vickers Energy Corporation owned by Esmark Inc., oil industry sources disclosed yesterday.

Richard H. Jenrette, the affable, baldish chairman and chief executive officer of Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette Inc., is an enthusiastic architectural buff and preservationist. In recent years he has restored a pre-Civil War hotel in Charleston, S.C., and half a dozen houses, including a 10-room, ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The Defense Department has developed and flown an experimental aircraft that is virtually invisible to Soviet radar, Government officials said today.

TOKYO--By skillful long-term planning and by pushing high technology, the Japanese Government has helped to make Japan not only the dominant industrial power in Asia but also a formidable competitor of the United States in world markets.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--Secretary of Defense Harold Brown asserted today that the nation's force of land-based intercontinental missiles might now be vulnerable to attack by the Soviet Union, somewhat sooner than had been anticipated by the Pentagon.

WARSAW, Aug. 20--The Polish Government sought today to combat spreading labor unrest by arresting at least 14 leaders of a dissident organization that has supported a weeklong strike by tens of thousands of workers for political as well as economic objectives.