Article on upper Fifth Av opposite Central Park; gives history of avenue and revs events leading to establishment of Carnegie Hill Historic Dist; describes some of historic mansions; drawing (L)

On Millionaires' Row, Today's Issues Find An Echo in History

Jason Marks travel article on Salem, Mass; discusses 17th century Salem witch trials; drawings; illus (L)

Salem Is Bewitching Still

A man carrying a valise that he said was filled with 12 sticks of dynamite was shot and killed by a police officer here yesterday as he tried to imitate last Monday's bank robbery in which the holdup man made off with $157,000.

Second Dynamite‐Ruse Robber Slain in East 5.9th Street Bank

When the Jets returned from St. Louis yesterday, they carried with them a 20&#8208;7 exhibition victory, their second in four games, and an unusually large contingent of walking wounded.

Rookies Do Their Jobs For Namath

West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in int with NY Times warning Pres Ford Adm that extreme measures to curb inflation in US could disrupt world econ, adds labor union leaders are partly to blame for European inflation problems since real wages are falling in indus countries and union measures to try to catch up are adversely affecting inflation; illus of Schmidt

Bonn Chancellor Bids Ford Act With Care on Inflation

A man who served six years and eight months in prison for the 1966 strangling of a young model was arrested yesterday and charged with the nearly identical murder of an aspiring actress in Greenwich Village on Tuesday. Page 24.

Held in ‘Village’ Death

NYS Controller Levitt charges on Aug 24 that dozens of top execs of NYCTA abused expense accts, writing off lavish meals and overseas junkets of dubious professional value, often with little or no documentation; cites trips to questionable Eur 'confs' and tells of 1 officer who took wife on 3-wk, 6 city subway 'inspection' tour that included stay in Florence, Italy, which does not have subway facilities; rept covers $155,000 in expenses in 618 claims exceeding $50 by 26 execs in 41-mo period from Jan 1 '70 to May 31 '73; separate sec of rept says that Dr William J Ronan, former chmn of NYCTA and MTA, collected $33,280 in expenses, including $13,460.46 for overseas travel; criticizes extent of claims and alleged lack of documentation; Ronan scores accusations; Assemblyman Francis J Boland orders investigation by Com of Corps, Authorities and Comms; main body of Levitt rept charges that NYCTA maintains double standard of expense allowances--requiring low-level employes to submit receipts and vouchers to justify expenses, while routinely reimbursing top officers for undocumented claims; Hyman Feldman identified as officer who took wife on Eur tour; he was 1 of most widely traveled execs during period of audit; other alleged violations of NYCTA policy attributed to him noted; Levitt por (L)

Expense‐Account Abuses Laid to Top Transit Aides

NYC's 1st combination school and office skyscraper is being built at Park Av and 34th St; bldg's design is drawing attention of public and of planning comm chmn John E Zuccotti; bldg angles away from av, leaving triangular plazas at each corner; Zuccotti says that bldg illustrates need for public rev of contruction plans for site of critical importance; project was developed by NYC Educational Construction Fund and is forerunner of more multiuse bldgs, which combine schools and apts; new Norman Thomas HS will occupy base of bldg and will augment and replace Central Commercial HS; Educational Construction Fund has cut back on some of its residential projects but recently approved site for new school and apt bldg on block bounded by 44th and 45th Sts and 10th and 11th Avs; fund has completed 3 such projects and has 10 in various stages of construction; Zuccotti indicates that city might impose some form of architectural rev in zoning; says his main concern is to maintain grid pattern of central Manhattan; illus of Park Av bldg and of model for bldg (L)

Zuccotti Seeks Design Control

Govt of Premier Constantine Caramanlis forces retirement of Brig Gen Dimitrios Ioannides, leading figure in former mil regime; ouster is engineered by army Chief of Staff Gen Ioannis Davos; Govt also terminates lucrative pensions that had been granted former Pres George Papadopoulos and other pol figures of last 7 yrs; moves follow disclosure that security forces of certain state insts, such as Agrarian Bank and telephone co, had been converted into private army by junta; new officials of bank find that security force had been inflated from 5 to 45 persons, and that enough arms had been stored in bank to repel attack of regiment (M)

ATHENS CAUTIOUS ON MOSCOW PLAN FOR CYPRUS TALK

article in series on world food problems discusses plan proposed by Ralph M Parsons Co to take excess water from great rivers of NW North Amer to provide irrigation for 40-million acres in US; plan would cost $100-billion in '64 dollars, would require 20 yrs for completion and would raise enormous pol problems; agr experts doubt it will ever be undertaken; Interior Dept's Bur of Reclamation projects expansion of irrigated land by about 3-million acres through '80, 6-million acres through '90 and 8.8-million by 2000 (S)

FARM EXPERTS SEE A U.S. OPPORTUNITY TO LESSEN HUNGER

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article on possibility of liquidity crisis in US that could spur wave of bankruptcies among debt-burdened businesses; Mfrs Hanover Trust economist Tilford C Gaines sees acute liquidity strains in nonfinancial business sector leading to large number of business failures in mos ahead; Goldman, Sachs economist Richard Worley doubts problem will feed upon self and infect entire corp sector; various ratios that define liquidity, co's ability to raise cash to meet debts, discussed; most analysts agree that during last few decades corps have been able to cut down necessary cash balances because of tech advances and pump idle cash into interest-earning assets; notes analysts are divided on how trends have altered level of desirable liquidity ratios; Hyman Minsky holds financial structure is fragile and US faces choice of continuing unacceptable rates of inflation or financial crisis followed by depression; First Boston Corp economist Albert Wojnilower says liquidity ratios have soured because prices are rising faster than money supply; sees fact that banks are considering ratios and not just expected cash flow in making lending decisions as ominous econ sign; First Natl City Bank pub Mar rev of business liquidity and its findings that corps are not unusally vulnerable noted; Mfrs economist Irwin Kellner and Worley cite good econ signs; economists worried about liquidity hope corps will soon again raise money in equity mkts, rather than burden selves with high interest costs of bank borrowing; graphs on corp liquidity and profits (L)

Is Liquidity Of Business In Jeopardy?

Walter Kerr explores trend of experimental theater to use primitive theatrical techniques; scene from Naked Lunch illus (L)

Definitions for Today's Theater

Pres Ford signs bill establishing Council on Wage and Price Stability to monitor wages and prices (S)

PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL SETTING UP WAGE‐PRICE UNIT

ATLANTA, Aug. 24&#8212; The Mets proved again tonight that they are becoming unaccustomed to protecting leads &#8212; especially early ones. In their third game of a series with the Braves before a crowd of 34,000 at Atlanta Stadium, the New Yorkers lost, 4&#8208;3, allowing a two&#8208;run, first&#8208;inning advantage to disappear in two innings, tied the game in the ninth, and then, lost it in the 10th by walking in the winning run.

Braves' Walk in 10th Beats Mets, 4‐3

GENEVA, Aug. 24&#8212;The International Air Transport Association announced today new price package that would increase passenger fares on scheduled North Atlantic flights by an average of 10 per cent starting Nov. 1.

Atlantic Air Fares to Rise By 10% More Next Nov. 1

Marvin and Bernard Kalb book Kissinger, study of Amer diplomacy, revd; Kalbs find that ex-Pres Nixon was main architect of US foreign policy during his occupancy of office (M)

Kissinger

Assemblyman Franz S J Leichter charges that Dem primary opponent Sen Minority Leader Zaretzki actually views Repub leaders as 'behind-the-scene cohorts' who protect his power and patronage in return for cooperation on controversial issues; cites former Gov Nelson A Rockefeller's apptmt of Assemblyman Stephen S Gottlieb, who posed primary challenge to Zaretzki in '74, to State Liquor Auth as example of Repubs' protective attitude; Zaretzki denies charge (S)

Zaretzki Is Battling to Retain Senate Seat

Gloria Hutchinson article on Sabbathda Lake Shaker village near New Gloucester, Me; members of community number less a dozen and are only Shakers in US except for smaller group in Canterbury, NH; sect's history traced; tenets described; tours of community described; map; illus (L)

Shakers—A Mere Handful—Are Alive and well in Maine

Prince Norodom Sihanouk's presence in Bucharest for ceremonies marking Rumania's 30th anniv of overthrow of Axis rule noted (S)

SIHANOUK IN PLEA TO FORD TO BRING CAMBODIAN PEACE

DETROIT&#8212;Lee A. Iacocca, blunt&#8208;speaking president of the Ford Motor Company, wheeled around in his chair, pulled the cigar from his mouth and, said:

In Small Cars, Ford Thinks Big

Hopeful Stakes: The Bagel Prince and Foolish Pleasure win divs of Hopeful Stakes on Aug 25 at Saratoga (M)

Pair of $4.20 Favorites Win Spa's Split Hopeful

article on close control over lines of mil command in last days of Nixon Adm to insure that no unathorized orders were given to mil units by White House notes both Defense Sec James R Schlesinger and Sec Kissinger remembered general skepticism when US forces were placed on alert in Oct '73 and were determined to insure that if crisis developed, they would be in position to justify any mil moves (S)

Pentagon Kept Tight Rein In Last Days of Nixon Rule

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24&#8212;The Atomic Energy Commission regularly uncovers safety violations in more than one of three of the facilities it inspects but imposes a penalty in only a small fraction of even the most serious of these cases, commission records glow.

A.E.C. Penalizes Few Nuclear Facilities Despite Thousands of Safety Violations

article on sense of relief and unity felt in Washington following resignation of Pres Nixon; notes Cong is basking in glory of its rebirth and vindication as inst by its role in impeachment inquiry; says there is little expression of regret by Dems that they, by initiating impeachment, had brought about new Adm and possible loss of pol advantage; notes change is personal as well as institutional; cites recent party given by Pres Ford in hon of King Hussein, with dancing in East Room; notes one psychiastrist observed that in sense people are behaving as they do after winning war; notes relief and active celebration are followed by near and actual depression as source of tension and excitement disappears and adjustment to more mundane pursuits is required; says people cling to what is done with even while they toast its departure; concludes that normal activities and interest will have to be resumed and neglected priorities given attention

Dancing in the White House But, Still, a Let‐Down Feeling

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August 25, 1974

Headlines from August 25, 1974

On Millionaires' Row, Today's Issues Find An Echo in History

Salem Is Bewitching Still

Second Dynamite‐Ruse Robber Slain in East 5.9th Street Bank

Rookies Do Their Jobs For Namath

Bonn Chancellor Bids Ford Act With Care on Inflation

Billboard 200

461 Ocean Boulevard

Back Home Again

Caribou

Fullfillingness First Finale

Bachman-Turner Overdrive II

Notable Births

Historical Context for August 25, 1974