What was going on when I was born?

NEWARK SEEKING to end the nine-week-old strike by members of the New Jersey Symphony, John F. Tesauro, executive director of the state's Board of Mediation, has called both sides in the dispute to a meeting at his office here tomorrow.

ON Dec. 31, when Governor Grasso resigns as the state's chief executive, she will join an elite group-now number ing six-of living former Governors of Connecticut, two of whom also resigned while in office.

ATLANTA, Dec. 5--In the cell blocks for Cuban refugees at the United States Penitentiary here, the gray steel bunks are jammed end to end. Some inmates have draped sheets from the bed above to create shadowy white havens in what has been their American home for as long as seven months.

CONNIE MORRISS sells the Cosmo girl--she who appears in the full-page advertisements for Cosmopolitan magazine, circulation 2.8 million. The Cosmo girl is an advertiser's dream, a glamorous young woman with cash on hand who is hellbent on consumption. "The Cosmopolitan ...

HARRY TRUMAN'S diary and letters, read in the context of current Presidential politics, leave little doubt about why he is so widely admired today, whatever the successes or failures of his Presidency. It is not only that he was among the least pretentious of our Presidents, even while he carried ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6--Notre Dame's chances for the final No. 1 ranking foundered again on the Pacific Coast as Southern California handed the Irish their only loss of the season today, 20-3.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6--The Senate majority leader, Robert C. Byrd, said today that if Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr. was nominated to be Secretary of State, ...

The telegram on the table in her cheery, modest 10th Street apartment in Greenwich Vil lage read: "DELIGHTED TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS STOP WE ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF YOU."

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 6--The fierceness of the rivalry between Florida and Florida State was heightened today as the teams played their closest game since Florida's monopoly of the series ended in the mid-1970's.

CALGARY, Alberta FROM somewhere on a 5.4 million-acre prospect in British Columbia that generations of petroleum geologists have largely ignored, a drilling crew from Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd. has begun sending daily reports by special "scrambler" telephone back to increasingly excited executives at company headquarters.

CHALATENANGO, El Salvador, Dec. 6--"We are oppressed, but not defeated," the Acting Archbishop of San Salvador, Arturo Rivera Damas, said today at the funeral for two slain Roman Catholic nuns from New York who were buried in this rural peasant village where they had been working.