OTB to begin to take bets on races at Tropical Pk in Miami, Fla; Tropical gen mgr E Vickers says that it is likely that Fla Business Regulation Bd will seek injunction against OTB on ground that off-track operation violates Fed laws; OTB head Samuels comments

Court Action Likely As OTB Prepares For Florida Betting

18 Eur guidebooks revd by H R Lottman; illus

Guidebooks As Christmas Presents

BALTIMORE, Dec. 11&#8212;Playing near&#8208;perfect football in a game &#8220;we wanted so bad, we can't describe it,&#8221; the Baltimore Colts whipped the Miami Dolphins, 14.3, today and stormed into first place in the American Conference's Eastern Division.

DOLPHINS BEATEN, 14‐3, DROP TO 2D

PARIS, Dec. 11&#8212;Stan Smith almost tripped over the lastplace player today on the way to his deciding match against Ilie Nastase of Rumania in the $50,000 Pepsi Masters tennis tournament.

Smith Downs Graebner in Paris, Will Play Nastase for Top Prize

Fordham has a new coach, but still lacks the big man and makes up for it with the pressing and patient basketball style it employed last season to excite New York when it posted a 26&#8208;3 won&#8208;lost record.

FORDHAM DOWNS LAFAYETTE, 81‐15

Will we ever understand China? In they century after the Opium War of 1839 increasing numbers of foreign diplomats, businessmen, missionaries, educators, students and soldiers lived there. Even so, the task was difficult. Since coming to power in 1949, however, the Chinese Communists have sharply reduced opportunities for foreigners to reside in China. They have carefully limited the travel of short&#8208;term visitors. And they have imposed such rigid control on information and contact that foreign observers in Peking &#8208;have for months&#8208; remained ignorant of dramatic major events that occurred almost under their noses.

A Peking department store.

In Calcutta last Thursday, a Britishtrained Indian general gave a terse description of the enemy rout in East Pakistan: &#8220;When you get outmaneuvered and feel you are going to get beaten badly, a chap says, &#8216;Let me get the hell out of here and see if I can fight in another place.&#8217;&#8221;

The World

The Dallas Cowboys, driving for their sixth straight divisional championship, are heavily favored to defeat the New York Giants by a comfortable margin at Yankee Stadium today at 1 P.M.

Cowboys Favored Over Giants Today

NYS Sen John R Dunne of Garden City in trouble politically because he has antagonized Nassau County Repub Chmn Assemblyman Joseph M Margiotta and other Nassau Repubs by pol 'boat-rocking'; his mild criticism of Gov Nelson A Rockefeller for not going to scene of Attica prison outbreak and his tour of state prisons with newsmen to point up prison problems angered Rockefeller; his pub criticism of 'sleeper' bill that would have given widow of Sen Edward J Speno $214,800 in death benefits drew wrath of Nassau Repub colleagues; Margiotta has called Dunne in twice for lectures on party loyalty; Dunne seen unlikely candidate for pol promotion; his and Margiotta's pors

Dunne Ruffles the G.O.P. Leadership

At 21 Arthur G. is abnormally shy. He was 9 when his mother died after a long and painful illness. After her death his widowed grandmother, Mrs. Sarah D., then 64, moved in to run the home for his father and take care of Arthur and his twin brothers Joseph and Bernard, then 5, and Harry, 3. When Arthur was 14, Mrs. D. died of a stroke and Arthur had to take over the household. There was no time to make friends. Before and after school Arthur had to cook, keep house, and look after his younger brothers. Two years ago his father, a store salesman, remarried.

“Nobody cares if I live or die”.

Christmas shoppers basked in balmy weather yesterday as temperatures in the city came close to a record for the day.

63° IS JUST SHORT OF CITY'S RECORD

ON my travels I have discovered that I am usually making two simultaneous journeys. One is outside myself, as my eyes search landscapes through train, plane or car windows and I perhaps chat with other passengers over the dinner table. The other is inside myself, where dreams collide with facts, loneliness grapples with a nervous urge to seek relationships, and the question of my real identity overpoweringly asserts itself.

Are You Traveling With Me, Jesus?

US Customs Service puts almost all of its 400-man NYC waterfront inspection force on overtime to search for contraband in backlog of about 60 ships still tied up in port in aftermath of dock strike; 6 day work wk is part of check for illegal cargo, particularly narcotics; bureau regional comr F R Boyett describes bureau's efforts, including use of dogs to uncover illegal drugs

Customs Checks Pier Backlog for Drugs

Monetary authorities of Communist countries rept that Nixon's decision to float dollar has created complicated bookkeeping and 'bureaucratic nightmare'; cite fact that much of Communist trade is carried out with West in dollars; say that certain transactions are actually paid in dollars while bulk of transactions are paid in transferable rubles and calculated on basis of cyclically adjusted world mkt prices, expressed in dollars; USSR is reptd to keep its internatl reserve primarily in gold and dollars; situation is reptd to be complicated by requirement that 30% of each E Eur nation's quota for Internatl Investment Bank be paid in gold or dollars; ruble is reptd to maintain fixed parity with dollar despite floating of dollar; USSR is said to recognize that dollar is repr of strongest econ in world, despite its troubles, and is most convenient vehicle for doing business; sources rept that USSR Bloc is vitally interested in type of monetary system that will emerge after internatl crisis; note that it would be easier to bring USSR Bloc countries into world's monetary system if true SDR standard should emerge from present turmoil; illus

The Ruble's Dollar Troubles

CALCUTTA&#8212;As a war, it's got everything&#8212;good guys and bad guys, little people cheering and hugging the liberators and weeping with joy, battles in which the bad guys win grudging respect by standing and fighting and dying, though vastly outnumbered and outgunned.

The Hobeau Farm took the top money in the feature race presentation at Aqueduct yesterday. The main event, the inaugural of the December Handicap, had to be run in two divisions because of a large turnout of horses, and the Hobeau color&#8208;bearers, Peace Corps and Knight in Armor, won the respective divisions.

HOBEAU ENTRIES WIN AT AQUEDUCT

Pakistan says situation in E Pakistan is grim; spokesman repts landing of brigade of Indian paratroopers north of Dacca; says Jessore and Comilla are still in Pakistani hands but that Indian troops landing by parachute and helicopters have bypassed main points of Pakistani resistance; Reuters repts Pakistani spokesman says major diplomatic moves to end war are underway outside UN; 3 Pakistani gens in E Pakistan propose cease-fire to UN under which non-Bengalis will be evacuated and pol autonomy conceded to E Pakistan; Pakistani Navy says it has sunk Indian frigate in Arabian Sea; India reptly orders UN to terminate its activities in E Pakistan; will reptdly treat UN personnel as private citizens, apparently eliminating channel of communication through which cease-fire might be arranged

Military Situation in East Termed ‘Grim’ by Pakistan

Berlinger discloses that new NYS welfare study estimates that nearly 6% of NYC welfare families are ineligible for assistance, s, NYC C of C health and welfare com meeting; such a proportion could mean nearly $4-million a mo is being paid out to ineligible recipients; Berlinger charges that findings show 'pattern' of loose adm and absence of proper controls; notes that analysis reveals that 20% of clients sampled were overpaid in their relief grants and 10% were underpaid; repts that he has submitted proposal to State Soc Services Dept to have city use nonnegotiable scrip instead of cash disbursements to landlords as rent security for clients; puts city's annual expense for such deposits at about $5-million and cites estimates that it may have $25- to $30-million outstanding, with none of sum earning interest for city

6% ON RELIEF HERE CALLED INELIGIBLE

Jackson Quits Post at S. C.L.C. In Policy Split With Abernathy

FREEPORT, Bahamas, Dec. 11 &#8212;George Archer withstood eight birdies by Bob Goalby today to hold a one&#8208;stroke lead after 54 holes of the $130,000 Bahamas national open.

Archer's 71 for 204 Leads Golf by Shot; Goalby Cards a 66

AFTER its spectacular short&#8208;term advance since Thanksgiving, the stock market underwent consolidation phase last week largely because it had no fresh stimulus from either the latest domestic economic data or the international negotiations on trade and currency problems.

THE WEEK IN FINANCE

WASHINGTON&#8212;For American officials, the war between India and Pakistan has underscored a sad fact about today's world: The big powers, in their effort to avoid a nuclear confrontation, seem unable to prevent minor powers from engaging in tragic, bloody and wasteful conventional conflicts.

summaries of 8 of Hundred Neediest Cases; painting illus

REMEMBER THESE: THE CITY'S NEEDIEST

BROCKPORT, N. Y., Dec. 11&#8212;He'll be using rented bowling shoes, but he'll check the wear on your shoes to see what kind of balance you've got.

Study Finds Cheating Abounds in Sports

Underground water tunnel, under construction at part of water system to provide high-quality Lake Huron water for Detroit, Mich, and its customers, explodes, reptdly killing 17 workers and injuring at least 22; map; workers describe accident; operations to recover bodies reptdly suspended for about 4 hrs to pump toxic gases from tunnel shaft; tunnel was about 6 wks from completion; St Clair County under sheriff N Ludy comments; Gov Milliken expresses sorrow over accident

17 WORKERS DEAD IN MICHIGAN BLAST

Sammy Korir is a long distance runner from Kenya.

December 12, 1971

Headlines from December 12, 1971

Court Action Likely As OTB Prepares For Florida Betting

Guidebooks As Christmas Presents

DOLPHINS BEATEN, 14‐3, DROP TO 2D

Smith Downs Graebner in Paris, Will Play Nastase for Top Prize

FORDHAM DOWNS LAFAYETTE, 81‐15

Billboard 200

Santana III

There's A Riot Goin' On

Teaser And The Firecat

Shaft

Led Zeppelin IV

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 12, 1971