Coats were being worn loosely or not at all, and miniskirts were replacing slacks yesterday as the tem perature here rose into the mid&#8208;sixties, 19 degrees above normal. 

A Touch of Spring in the City Brings Out a Touch of the Poet in U.S. Weather Service's Forecaster

Article on psychological techniques that are enabling growing number of dissatisfied male homosexuals to become heterosexual or better adjust to their homosexuality; illus

More Homosexuals Aided To Become Heterosexual

A partisan Father&#8208;Son Day crowd of 3,943 jammed into Fordham's Rose Hill gymna sium yesterday afternoon and watched the Rams coast to 102&#8208;87 basketball victory over New York University.

N.Y.U. Beaten, 102‐87

Off-Track Betting Corp weighs establishing small, high-odds bet in which players would attempt to pick exact 1-2-3 order of finish in designated race at Roosevelt Raceway as means of competing with numbers racket; 7,000-1 payoff would be possible, compared with maximum 600-1 payoff in numbers; H J Samuels comments; Harlem residents, at meeting, critical of plan; L L Wingate tells Samuels 'not to mess with numbers, likens game to 'Caths playing bingo'

Offtrack Unit Weighs Small, High‐Odds Bet

The New York Jet coaches got their first look at their 1971 draft choices yesterday after most of the draft choices got their first look at New York. Both groups were im pressed.

Jet Rookies Visit the Big Apple and Learn It's Not Kansas City

If asked whom I thought the most illustrious living novelist born in England, I would unhesitatingly say P. G. Wodehouse. To assert this, at one time, was to be named middle brow, or an inverted snob. Can that &#8220;performing flea,&#8221; as Sean O'Casey dubbed him (and as Wodehouse then titled his autobiography), be called illustrious? &#8220;Plum&#8221; Wodehouse, the comedian? Come, come!

Can a humorous author be illustrious? Yes, the most illustrious; The Girl in Blue By P. G. Wodehouse. 190 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $5.95.

co's operations discussed; Procter & Gamble, in addition to being nation's largest seller of soap and detergents, makes many other products; high sales vol traditionally puts it among top 30 US indus corps; co, in addition to detergent additive problems, faces major marketing problems in '71; will push Eur sales and introduce new products; security analysts cautious about prospects for co despite glowing sales rept for June-Dec '70; co mgt discussed; co pres Morgens int; graphs show net sales and income, '61-70; illus of some detergent products; number of execs who have left co to head other major cos noted

But Finding Phosphate Substitute Will Be Expensive

Norwegian Cabinet meets to consider if Premier Borten should continue as Premier after he admitted he lied by denying he disclosed confidential information about Norway's application to join EEC; Borten says he regrets he is guilty of passing information to A Haugestad, avowed opponent of Norwegian membership in EEC who disclosed contents of rept to Scandinavian newsman; Oslo newspaper pub rept from Amb Halvorsen about discussions he had in Brussels with senior official of econ community who expressed grave doubts about prospects that Norway would be granted special privileges for agricultural products in EEC; leak provoked angry comments from politicians and newspapers who complained that purpose had been to obstruct application to join EEC; Borten issued pub statement saying that neither he nor office had anything to do with leak and then later said he lied

Norway's Cabinet Judging Premier, Who Admits Lie

L Scott article describes singles cruise sponsored by Greek Line and Operation Match aboard liner Queen Anna Maria from NYC to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island; sketch; illus

‘Somebody Nice Is Waiting to Meet You,’ Said the Cruise Ad

Eager to lock up the Atlantic Division title and prepare for the National Basketball Asso ciation playoffs, the Knicks opened a demanding 12&#8208;day schedule with a 113&#8208;102 vic tory over the Portland Trail Blazers last night at Madison Square Garden.

KNICKS DEFEAT BLAZERS, 113‐102;

PALM BEACH GARDEN, Fla. Feb. 27&#8212;Over a windblown course, Jack Nicklaus moved to four&#8208;stroke lead today in the Professional Golfers&#8217; Associa tion championship with a 54 hole aggregate of 208. He card ed a two&#8208;under&#8208;par 70 in the third round.

NICKLAUS TAKES 4‐STROKE P.G.A. LEAD;

Notre Dame scored more points than any other visiting team in the 10&#8208;year existence of St. John's Alumni Hall in beating the Redmen last night, 92&#8208;79.

St. John's Bows, 92‐79

W White int with author H G Brown on advantages and pitfalls of singles tours; Brown feels single people seeking mates should travel but not in groups or with friends; illus; cartoons

That Cosmo Girl On Romance and The Single Traveler

SAIGON &#8212; Late last week, in the 26th day of the allied push into Laos, American mili tary authorities finally permit ted correspondents to do what thousands of South Vietnamese troops have done: Cross the bor der in American helicopters. The ban on travel was just one of many restrictions on coverage of the war in Indochina. imposed on top of the most serious in herent restriction of all that it is dangerous.

The World

cameraman N Almendros int by V Canby; illus

He Took a Close‐Up of ‘Claire's Knee’

US Mayors Conf, with help from Agnew's staff, has persuaded Adm to reverse decision to cut off all funding for Model Cities program Dec 31; effort to cut off funding is part of continuing struggle between Mayors and Adm over Fed urban programs; Mayors are skeptical over Nixon's special revenue sharing, details of which are beginning to emerge, although they back gen sharing program; plan calls for money now going into Model Cities and 3 other major programs to be lumped together and distributed to cities under formula based on need and population for use as cities wish under broad definition of community development; Mayors' repr says cut-off of Model Cities funds would 'put them over barrel' to support special revenue sharing even before details were worked out and would play havoc with city budgets at time when revenues are unusually short; Nixon budget would continue programs to be lumped under special revenue sharing until Jan 1, when sharing would take over; Mayors and Cong sources doubt Cong will enact special revenue sharing; at subsequent meeting between Mayors and Adm officials, arranged by Agnew staff, Adm officials disclosed for 1st time how revenue sharing for community development would work; most of money would go to cities having met areas of 50,000 or over under formula that would take into account population, extent of poverty and other factors; Adm officials said that under no circumstances would city, get less funds that it gets under present programs

NIXON DROPS PLAN TO CUT OFF FUNDS FOR MODEL CITIES

The man whose acid al literative addresses have helped him become a house hold name throughout&#8208;Amer ica may also become the closest thing in 1971 to a fad in the American toy in dustry.

Toyland '71

comment on Laotian operation and results it may achieve

SAIGON SAYS ARMY HAS WON CONTROL OF HILL 31 IN LAOS

Venezuela's new measures to raise its crude oil prices in early Mar detailed in view of econ planners' hope to use new revenues to diversify econ; illus of Amuay refinery; country produces about 3.7-million bbls daily, of which about 1/2 is sold in US as heating fuel; diversification ventures and problem of paying for them discussed; country's heavy dependence on oil revenues and speculation that US may be paying to large extent for country's diversification of econ discussed

Venezuela Receiving Signals for Change

Army directive issued in Feb, '68, as part of program to keep civilians under surveillance, shows senior officials feared 'true insurgency' if 'external subversive forces' gained control of antiwar dissidents; 2d document, issued in May, '68, requested large number of Govt agencies to provide Army Intelligence with evidence of subversion in peace and other groups; Army intelligence annex said to appear to equate dissident antiwar elements with subversive conspiracy

ARMY IN ’ 68 FEARED CIVIL ‘INSURGENCY’

MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Feb. 27 A blustery overnight and morning rain storm that washed out plans for many recreational skiers in New England failed to halt the Middlebury Winter Carnival today.

Middlebury Takes Eastern Ski Title

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27&#8212;This was the New York Rangers&#8217; last visit to Civic Arena, and the Pittsburgh Penguins couldn't be happier. Tonight the Broadway Blues beat Coach Red Kelly's expansion team, 4&#8208;0, before 12, 419 fans, 100 of them Ranger Fan Club members.

RANGERS TRIUMPH;

625,000 persons in NYS's assigned risk pool will have to pay avg 19.3% more for auto ins, effective Mar 1; NYS Ins Dept, in approving increases, says it is in effect reducing $60-a-yr subsidy granted to New Yorkers in pool and $10-a-yr extra charges that other state motorists pay to subsidize pool; rises, effective on renewals of current policies after Apr 14, range from low of 6.5% for suburban Buffalo to 37.8% for Albany; NYC residents with minimum state-required coverage will get $14-30 rise; increase by boroughs listed

Assigned‐Risk Insurance To Cost 20% More in State

TOKYO, Feb. 25&#8212;A little re luctantly but definitely, the Japanese are conceding that the future has become the present, that their country is a big boy now&#8212;with a big boy's achievements and, sighing, a big boy's problems.

For Japan, the Future Is Now

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February 28, 1971

Headlines from February 28, 1971

A Touch of Spring in the City Brings Out a Touch of the Poet in U.S. Weather Service's Forecaster

More Homosexuals Aided To Become Heterosexual

N.Y.U. Beaten, 102‐87

Offtrack Unit Weighs Small, High‐Odds Bet

Jet Rookies Visit the Big Apple and Learn It's Not Kansas City

Billboard 200

Pearl

Chicago III

Love Story

Jesus Christ Superstar

Abraxas

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 28, 1971