Pres Nixon delivers commencement address before crowd of 25,000 on May 11; illus (S)

NIXON PREPARING TO FIGHT TO END, HE TELLS FAMILY

Marshall W Mason, co-founder and artistic dir of Circle in Sq, int on co and its recent productions; illus

Suddenly, Real Ploys About Reat People

Rev of events in Watergate affair notes formal impeachment proceedings have begun and that many leaders of Repub party are calling on Nixon to resign as result of Nixon's release of edited White House transcripts; notes meeting between Nixon and Vice Pres Ford after which Ford said Nixon was concerned about his working too hard, making too many speeches and perhaps should cut down; notes comments by Reprs J B Anderson and J J Rhodes, Sec R C B Morton and Sens H D Scott and R Schweiker; notes call for Nixon's resignation or impeachment by stanchly Repub Chicago Tribune; notes rumors of Nixon's impending resignation and White House denials; illus

Alone

Article on efforts of Defense Sec Schlesinger to prevent further erosion of Amer mil strength by developing class of smaller Trident submarines able to disperse greater number of missiles with greater flexibility, as well as smaller, less costly patrol frigates and smaller aircraft carriers; illus (L)

Plane Competition Marks Defense‐Spending Shift

White House press sec Ronald L Ziegler calls NY Times article on Pres Nixon's alleged racial epithets 'incredible'; asserts story was not documented; text of statement by Nixon counsel J Fred Buzhardt Jr (S)

Nixon Use of Ethnic Epithets Is Reported

W Kerr comments on success of Circle in Sq Theater in Uris Bldg, NYC, which is ending its 2d yr; notes that against budget of $1.7-million it has taken in $1.3-million in ticket sales, averaging some 65% capacity

What Does It Take To Succeed? Money

2d of 2 articles on effects of vacancy decontrol in NYC; compares 2-room apt in Grand Concourse in Bronx with 2-room apt in slightly older and smaller bldg in Greenwich Village, NYC; decontrolled Concourse apt rents for $110 per mo, 17% below maximum base rent; village apt has decontrolled rent of $225, 84% above its maximum base rent of $122; discrepancy indicates that 1 result of vacancy decontrol is soaring rents in bldgs in fashionable neighborhoods; another conclusion is that Tents in bldgs with high base rent levels and low base-rent levels tend to approximate each other after decontrol; a comparison of large development in Sheepshead Bay area of Bklyn with luxury bldg on Riverside Dr in Manhattan shows that destabilization, like decontrol, also produces wide variation of rents among different bldgs; in Sheepshead Bay bldg, destabilized rents avgd 31% above last stabilized rents; on Riverside Dr, destabilized rents avgd 5% below stabilized rents for same apts; certain other variables that are connected with level of decontrolled rent increases are renovations by landlord and quality of bldg maintenance

‘Village’ and Concourse: How Rent Patterns Are Shifting

article notes rumors in Jerusalem, which began after Amer correspondents were advised of talk in Washington, DC, that Pres Nixon might resign soon, that State Sec H A Kissinger, who by law must receive a Pres resignation, had secretly departed for US (S)

2 KISSINGER AIDES VISIT GOLAN AREA, FOCUS OF DISPUTE

Vice Pres Ford says he assured Pres Nixon in May 10 meeting that he is not among those 'trying to jump off his ship of state,' commencement address at Tex A & M Univ; says some of his recent speeches touching on Watergate affair were misconstrued by news media; Ford appears to confirm repts that Nixon expressed some unhappiness over Ford's comments about White House's handling of Watergate matters; Ford says he told Nixon that he has been trying to assure this yr's coll graduates that 'Govt in Washington isn't about to sink'; notes his previous speeches and how they were misinterpreted; Ford's reception in Tex is friendly; says his reading of White House transcripts has convinced him that Nixon is innocent of any wrongdoing in Watergate affair or its subsequent cover-up, speech to Repub group in Houston; Ford por (M)

FORD REITERATES LOYALTY TO NIXON

Portuguese mil junta leader Gen Francisco de Costa Gomes declares that Portugal's Army will continue fighting in Mozambique, and, if necessary, intensify war if Mozambique guerrillas refuse junta's cease-fire offer, news conf, Lourenco Marques (Mozambique); says he is aware that some of Portuguese Communists and Socialists will oppose war's continuation, but holds that if Mozambique Liberation Front will not lay down arms, majority of parties will support junta's action; remarks by Costa Gomes described as being of great significance; Costa Gomes appeals to Mozambique Liberation Front to become nonviolent pol party and move into Mozambique hq, where orgn can exercise 'full freedom of expression and propaganda'; map (L)

Mozambique Rebels Told Lisbon May Step Up War

Article on rising cost of homes in NYC boroughs, especially Queens; says houses that sold for $80,000 to $85,000 2 yrs ago now sell for $118,000 to $135,000; economic pressures have made it necessary to build 3-family houses, which are in violation of NYC's housing code; city officials estimate there are about 80,000 'illegal threes' in city and fewer than 15 permits have been issued for legal 3-family homes; realtors comment; por of builder David A Coleman and illus of 'illegal threes' in Bayside, Queens

Queens Homes Soar Over $100,000

gloomy mood at Securities Indus Assn (SIA) conv in White Sulphur Springs, W Va, discussed; bankers and brokers see meeting against background of sagging vol in Wall St and likelihood that brokerage houses as a group have slipped back into the red; fact that only 35 NYSE members made profits in 1st qr '74, and that 400 others ran at loss or were only marginally profitable, noted; SIA counsel J Richard Tucker is pessimistic on outlook for profits; Robert H B Baldwin (Morgan Stanley & Co) cites news of flight of capital from Wall St, which I W Burnham (Drexel Burnham & Co) estimates at from $500- to $600-million in '73, as most distressing for brokers; problems facing indus include invasion by banks offering investing plans, issue of negotiated commissions and question of dominance of inst investors, who many blame for making mkt less liquid and more treacherous; glimmer of hope discerned among some about ability of brokers to build new indus powerful enough to keep rival commercial banks off securities 'turf'; graphs showing avg daily vol, NYSE Index and profitability of NYSE member firms from '72 to '74 (L)

Down and Out at the Greenbrier

100-Yd Run: Ivory Crockett (US) sets world record in 100-yd dash (9.0) on May 11, Knox ville, Tenn (M)

Crockett's 9‐Second Feat Sets World Record in 100

CHICAGO, May 11&#8212;The New York Mets survived another afternoon of low comedy in Wrigley Field today, defeated the Chicago Cubs again by 6&#8208;3 and won sole possession of a small prize: fourth place in the Eastern Division.

Jones, Hahn, Staub Help Swan Pick Up His. First Victory

A Lewis article on legal and pol problems to be faced if Pres Nixon should decide to resign; says 1 objection to resignation, which is less weighty now, is possibility that resignation would leave dangerous sense of illegitimacy among body of Nixon's supporters in US; says dilemma that has not been finessed is that of Nixon's potential liability as private citizen under criminal law; says that for Cong to pass formal immunity statute would be consitutionally difficult but G R Ford Jr as Pres could undertake to pardon Nixon for any offenses committed in office; discusses philosophical questions about criminal immunity for Nixon; notes civil law problem for Nixon is that there is good possibility that as private citizen he would be sued or asked to testify in large number of ordinary damage suits; says smaller issue is future payments to Nixon as under existing law, any former Pres, except one who has been impeached and convicted, is paid $60,000 a yr for life and given $96,000 for staff and free office space; cartoon

Resignation Has Its Problems Too

NY Times survey of effects of school integration 20 yrs after US Sup Ct's pro-civil rights decision in Brown v Bd of Educ case finds that despite enormous strides by blacks and other minorities, battle for equality is far from over; notes most dual school systems are gone, but civil rights movement splintered over effectiveness of integration is faced by facts of demography, ethnicity and human migration that cannot be altered by ct decisions; sees school segregation related more to socio-econ class than to race, situation which still puts minority groups at disadvantage; discusses several surveys which have generally found that integration does not necessarily improve learning of black children but does not hinder learning of whites; holds ironic result of Brown decision is that deep South is more throughly integrated than North and West, where de facto segregation still exists in many areas; notes HEW finding that 25% of Southern black pupils are enrolled in virtually all-black schools, compared with 49% in North and 53% in border states; repts white migration from many Northern cities has decreased number of white pupils to point where it is impossible to create balanced enrollments in city schools; increasingly vocal group of black leaders says it is more important to improve educ of blacks in inner cities than to worry about transporting them to hostile white neighborhoods; educators are finding 'second generation' problems that are often more difficult to cope with than resistance to integration; see black students in predominantly white schools excluded from extracurricular activities, 'tracked' into classes with no whites and expelled from school for disciplinary reasons more often than whites; as many as 1/2-million white pupils have been enrolled in all-white private 'academies' in South; desegregation has meant that thousands of black educators have been demoted or lost their jobs; also surfacing are complaints by other long-neglected minority groups that their children also suffer from linguistic and ethnic barriers; Asst Atty Gen J Stanley Pottinger denies that Nixon Adm has turned its back on integration; NAACP Legal Defense Fund head Jack Greenberg, Judge Constance Baker Motley and other educators and civil rights leaders comment on integration efforts; illus of NY Times May 18 '54 headline on Brown decision; illus of black students being escorted by Natl Guardsmen into hs in Little Rock, Ark, in '57; table of black ps enrollment percentages by geographical area (L)

School Integration Order of ‘54 Did Much, but Much Is Undone

INDIANAPOLIS, May II&#8212;Rain and a rules controversy today helped A. J. Foyt, a three&#8208;time winner of the Indianapolis 500, stake a tentative claim to the pole position for the 58th running of the 500 on May 26.

Foyt Posts Fastest Time In Indy 500 Qualifying

G Eskenazi on aborted Chinese-language newspaper, Chinese Racing Daily, losing $10,000 in 2 wks; paper's head Bo-ngung Dong comments; illus (M)

Chinese Long Shot Runs For 12 Days, Loses $10,000

There was ample reason to expect &#8220;The Decay of the Angel&#8221; to be a failure. There was a candid,. suspicion abroad in the West that Yukio Mishima's final work might appear no more than a gesture, a literary ritual as incomprehensible to us as his last&#8208;stand and certainly grandstand act, committing suicide to stop the rush of history.

A master of gorgeous and perverse surprises

Maurice Chessa, exec dir of Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-Action Program, antipoverty agency that seeks and provides jobs for youths, is arrested on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, possesion of gambling books and loan-sharking (M)

Poverty Aide Here Seized as Loan Shark

New Dem Coalition holds conv; Abraham Hirschfeld, who is seeking Dem nomination for US Sen, demands coalition cancel conv; accuses group of dividing Dem party (S)

SAMUELS BACKED BY COALITION VOTE

Young 'new breed' Bronx landlord Tom Cueva who faces ruin because of rising cost of maintaining bldgs discusses rising cost of fuel oil, unwillingness of oil cos to extend credit and cheating practiced by certain oil co drivers; illus (M)

A Bronx Owner Finds Fuel Costs Dashing His Hopes

Jim Slaton, the easy&#8208;going righthander who at the end of last season was considered the Brewers&#8217; most improved pitcher, evidently continues to improve.

May Hits Two‐Ran Wallop as Slaton Wins No. 4

Urban leaders in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami and other cities say turnabout in Nixon Adm policies regarding mass transit has thrown their plans to build modern transit systems into confusion; contend Adm is backing away from earlier assurances that Fed aid would be available to pay for up to 80% of systems' costs; Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson and Repr William S Moorehead (Pittsburgh) comment; Fed Urban Mass Transportation Admr Frank C Herringer says Fed funds to help cities build transit systems are limited and must be spent where they can do most good (M)

Cities Say U.S. Reneges On Rapid‐Transit Funding

Dr John L Roglieri lr on injuries suffered by hockey players suggests that players wear helmets and face masks; illus (M)

May 12, 1974

Headlines from May 12, 1974

NIXON PREPARING TO FIGHT TO END, HE TELLS FAMILY

Suddenly, Real Ploys About Reat People

Alone

Plane Competition Marks Defense‐Spending Shift

Nixon Use of Ethnic Epithets Is Reported

Billboard 200

The Sting

Buddha And The Chocolate Box

John Denver's Greatest Hits

Maria Muldaur

Chicago VII

Historical Context for May 12, 1974