When Peter Firth, stark naked onstage at the Plymouth Theater, acts out the atrocity of blinding six horses, the impact on the audience is one of palpable terror. The scene, made all the more terrifying by the sounds of pain that accompany it, is one of the numbing peaks of Peter Shaffer's new play &#8220;Equus,&#8221; which opened last Thursday.

‘Equus’ Makes A Star Of Firth

Washington Federal Savings and Loan Assn has brought foreclosure proceedings against Village Mall Town Houses in Bayside, Queens, and NYS Atty Gen has intervened in financial negotiations over project on behalf of condominium buyers who are seeking refunds of their deposits; development consists of two 21-story rental bldgs and 141 low-rise condominium apts, which are separately financed; principals in co are Michael Newmark and Lawrence Rosano; syndicate of 7 banks that financed rental sec of Village Mall has not begun foreclosure but is known to be seeking buyer for project; builder Samuel Lefrak says he is interested in buying both sees of project; sources say problems with condominium sec at Bayside are result of cost overruns, delays in getting materials and other inflationary factors; history of Village Mall Town Houses revd; map (L)

Foreclosure Begun At Queens Project

KINSHASA, Zaire, Oct. 26 &#8212;In the largest, loudest and latest weigh&#8208;in in heavyweight boxing history, the world champion George Foreman, tipped the scales at 220 pounds tonight and the challenger, Muhammad Ali, registered 216&#189; pounds.

Foreman Hits. 220, Ali 216½ at Weigh‐In

The longtime Boston CelticKnick rivalry sold out Madison Square Garden last night. But the crowd of 19,964 didn't see the real Celtics. And the Knicks weren't the same struggling Knicks. They overwhelmed Boston, 97&#8208;86, for their third victory in five games.

Knicks Conquer Celtics

Mayor Beame's order to Budget Dir Melvin Lechner to cut 4,700 employes by attrition in effort to alleviate city's fiscal crisis noted; inexorable rise of city employe payroll, pensions and fringe benefits cited among principal reasons for severe econ problems(S)

Fiscal Experts See the City In Severe Financial Crisis

UNIONDALE, L I. Oct. 26 &#8212;The Islanders' dream line, a combination of players that would provide some scoring punch, materialized tonight as New York defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 4.0, before 12,331 fans in Nassau Coliseum.

North Stars Beaten As Defense Excels

Summit conf of Arab League opens with charges that US, through its press, has threatened mil intervention in Persian Gulf as means of assuring cheaper oil and is inciting world against Arabs (S)

Arabs Urge Palestinians And Hussein to End Feud

Freelance writer Paul Hoffman article on tax deductibility of vacations operated by travel cos specializing in 'educational tours'; just how 'educational' these tour and cruises really are is matter of growing dispute; IRS has urged its employes to scrutinize tax returns with deductions for vacations disguised as business trips; HR Ways and Means Com has made plugging travel loophole part of its tax reform bill; IRS policy is that educational tour only becomes tax deductible if its professional elements outweigh personal considerations; in practice, many doctors, lawyers and other professionals claim as deductible expense full cost of vacations to Eur that include several lectures or seminars; most educational tour programs are aimed at doctors because they have more money to spend (L)

Lowering the Boom on the Vacation Tax Dodge

4 armed men take 22 hostages on Oct 26 during prison church service at Scheveningen, Netherlands, near The Hague; 1 convict identified as Palestinian terrorist Adnan Ahmed Nuri demands to see diplomat from Arab embassy and asks that his friend Sami Houssin Tamimah, his accomplice in Mar '74 hijacking attempt at Schiphol Airport, be allowed to join him; other convicts identified as M Koudache, Daan Denie and Jan Brouwer; most of hostages are choir members from The Hague who regularly perform at prison; 3 women, 4 children and priest are among captives; map (M)

Arab Hijacker, Fellow Inmates Seize 22 in a Dutch Jail Chapel

THIS year marks the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition specially organized by the Impressionist painters in Paris to show their work as a group. The exhibition, mounted in the studio of the photographer Nader, was at Once a gesture of protest&#8212;a protest against the conservative taste of the official Salon, which had rejected so many of their paintings&#8212;and a practical means of winning attention and possible patronage for a mode of painting then considered, if considered at all, an affront to established standards. Among the painters included in this fateful exhibition&#8212;one of the stellar events in, the history of the avant&#8208;garde&#8208;&#8208;were Degas, Renoir Pissarro, Cdzanne, Monet, Sisley and Morisot, and I think it can safely be said that none was a rebel either In temperament or in principle. Their historic gesture of protest was forced upon them, by the benighted practices of entrenched artistbureaucrats. It was not intrinsic to the Impressionist esthetic.

ART VIEW

NY Times-Yankelovich survey compares attitudes of NYS voters toward Dem candidate Repr Hugh L Carey and Repub Gov Malcolm Wilson; Carey is rated highly for leadership, personality, independence and outspokenness on Watergate, while Wilson is rated highly on experience and knowledge of state; survey did not directly ask voters who they preferred for Gov, but attempts to show strengths and weaknesses of both candidates; key findings include: NY's 2 Sens Javits and Buckley scored highest positive ratings of all local politicians; 58% are satisfied with Pres Ford's performance despite widespread disapproval of Nixon pardon; half are satisfied with Wilson's performance as Gov but feel state's recent Repub adm has failed to cope with problems of law and order, mental health, public transportation, pollution control and consumer protection; Rockefeller now seen as least popular politician in state; voter responses to questions about Carey and Wilson detailed

Voters Like Carey as a Leader And Wilson for His Experience

rev of race for US Sen in NYS between incumbent Repub Jacob K Javits, Dem Ramsey Clark and Conservative Barbara Keating; Javits is characterized as 'inst,' Clark 'maverick' and Keating 'spoiler'; issues outlined; illustrations (L)

The Line‐Up: 1 Institution, 1 Maverick—1 Spoiler?

Pittsburgh, Oct. 26&#8212;Steve Vickers, the young opportunist wing who was named &#8220;rookie of the year&#8221; two seasons ago, tallied the first and last goals tonight in leading the New York Rangers to a 5&#8208;4 victory over the Penguins.

Penguins Lose, 5‐4, to Vickers's Goal

Henry S Ruth Jr is sworn in as 3d Watergate special prosecutor by Judge Byron G Skelton and gives assurances of continued independent work by his office; Leon Jaworski is not present; Atty Gen W B Saxbe speaks; Ruth says he plans no changes in prosecutor's staff; 1 of Ruth's major concerns will be to get more of tapes and documents produced in Nixon Adm; says Nixon materials have not been moved by White House from their depository in Exec Office Bldg pending outcome of negotiations over their ownership; prosecution sources have said that Nixon's attys are threatening in private to fight in cts any subpoena for tapes or documents and subpoenas are understood to be in preparation by Ruth's office; Ruth says his office should retain independent status at least until its various Watergate-related investigations are completed; subsidiary investigations being conducted by prosecutor's office noted; Ruth says he believes pardoning of former Pres Nixon by Pres Ford was proper exercise of Pres power; illus of Ruth with asst prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste (L)

New Prosecutor Pledges Independence

M R Forgelman article on traveling from NYC to Calif on Greyhound bus; drawings (L)

Learning to Love the Bus On across‐Country Odyssey

A few years ago in a televised interview, portions of which were reprinted in The New York Times, Vladimir Nabokov called Andrei Bely's novel &#8220;Petersburg&#8221; one of the four greatest masterpieces of 20th&#8208;century prose, the others being Joyce's &#8220;Ulysses,&#8221; Kafka's &#8220;Metamorphosis&#8221; and, as he put it, &#8220;the first half of Proust's fairy tale &#8216;In Search of Lost Time.&#8217; &#8220;Those unfamiliar with Bely's name and achievement must have dismissed such a selection as either a legpull or a deliberate paradox. But Nabokov was simply stating the facts: the novel he named is indeed the most important, most influential and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the 20th century, and its author is the man who affected the development of modern Russian prose more than any other 20th&#8208;century figure.

The Silver Dove

College students from middle&#8208;income families have won the promise of increased scholarship help because of new governmental and collegiate policies that widen the definition of financial need.

COLLEGE AID RISES FOR MIDDLE CLASS

article on changing trend in labor union leader expertise compares old image of AFL-CIO pres George Meany while business agent for Bronx plumbers local in '20's to new image projected by Amer Fed of State, County and Munic Employes pres Jerry Wurf and Sheetmetal Workers' Internatl Assn gen pres Edward J Carlough; notes current emphasis on econ situation in US in leader's dealings with workers; discusses 5-yr-old AFL-CIO Labor Studies Center, which has just relocated to $6.5-million Maryland campus; notes unions are becoming more expert in nature of bargaining, econ and Govt intervention in workers' affairs; Wurf and Carlough comment; pors; graph (L)

Labor's New Managers

Article by Ellen Kessner on increasing number of women real estate brokers; notes advantages and disadvantages of work; cartoon (L)

I Thought It Would Be Easy!

In 1949, when a dizzying succession of union&#8208;enforced three&#8208;day weeks and even no&#8208;day weeks in the soft coal mines had brought the national economy close to paralysis, John L. Lewis, imperious leader of the United Mine Workers, told the coal industry's top negotiators: &#8220;You need men and I have all the men and they are here in the palm of my hand; and now I ask, What am I bid?&#8221;

Coal Miners And Wage Explosion

HEW Sec Caspar W Weinberger is preparing to offer Pres Ford proposal to replace major US welfare programs with $2.6-billion 'cash transfer' plan; plan is patterned after negative income tax idea and is more comprehensive than former Pres Nixon's family assistance plan; terms of plan call for elimination of food stamp and Aid to Families with Dependent Children programs in exchange for $3,600 yrly allotment to each jobless 4-member family with no other means of support; possibility of Weinberger proposal being upstaged by Repr Martha W Griffiths' proposal of similar legis after upcoming elections noted; HEW Dept estimates that about 25 states will be likely to supplement Fed funds in order to handle regional cost of living differences; proposal compared to '72 Nixon family assistance plan calling for $2,000 in yrly assistance to family of 4; notes present program received strong Nixon support in July '74 after his review of Mich Univ study showing that 45% of Amers had been eligible for some form of welfare assistance during past 6 yrs; critics of plan contend income supplements can be disincentive to work; Weinberger prepared to use results of Princeton (NJ) Mathematics Inc study suggesting that very few employed male family heads who qualify for income supplements will quit their jobs as means to head off criticism; HEW Dept plans to complete proposal in time for Pres Ford's '75 State of Union Address (M)

NEW. PREPARING A WELFARE PLAN

President Ford, in his first interview since moving into the Oval Office 10 weeks ago, discusses the economy, the Presidency, his last days as Vice President and his final meeting with President Nixon. Details, Page 56.

Interview With Ford

article on similarities between sexually liberated entertainment offered in NYC and in Berlin in '20s; illus; drawing (L)

Are We as Nude, Even Lewd, As Brazen Old Berlin?

Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN, armed forces of Puerto Rican natl liberation, claim responsibilty for 5 bombing incidents in NYC on Oct 26, seeking release of 5 Puerto Rican prisoners; calls for immediate ind of Puerto Rico; also claims responsibility for bombings and bombing attempts last spring and on Sept 28 in Newark, NJ; details on bombings (S)

TERRORISTS HERE SET OFF 5 BOMBS AT BUSINESS SITES

An armed robber took $40,000 in jewels from an Indian maharani and a French viscountess after he forced his way into their limousine in front of 17 Sutton Place. Details, Page 38.

$40,000 Jewel Robbery

Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973.

October 27, 1974

Headlines from October 27, 1974

‘Equus’ Makes A Star Of Firth

Foreclosure Begun At Queens Project

Foreman Hits. 220, Ali 216½ at Weigh‐In

Knicks Conquer Celtics

Fiscal Experts See the City In Severe Financial Crisis

Billboard 200

Can't Get Enough

So Far

Back Home Again

Welcome Back; My Friends; To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentleme

Wrap Around Joy

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 27, 1974