July 13, 1975

Dr. Andrew Cordier, president emeritus of Columbia University and former executive assistant to the Secretary General of the United Nations, died. He was 74. Details are on Page 39.

City of Beyreuth, which owns Richard Wagner Archives, has sold to Munich publisher Piper Verlag right to publish diaries of Cosima Wagner, which have been kept secret for nearly 100 yrs; Eng-language edition to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Wagner authorities expect significant revelations about Wagner's musical and operatic ideas and his unconventional life; Prof John Bailey comments on mysteries and litigation surrounding diaries, including possession of them for time by Wagner's daughter Eva Chamberlain; Cosima Wagner por (M)

NYS Legis, after 18-hr marathon, ends session, longest in 64 yrs, just before dawn on July 12; both Sen and Assembly adjourn for yr, abandoning plans for special session in Nov and leaving long list of legislation uncompleted; Gov Carey, in unusual appearance on Assembly Speaker's rostrum, makes ref to unruly closing night; leaders engaged in frantic last-min bargaining, with result that new bills kept arriving on members desks in stream that did not end until after formal adjournment; few members knew what they were voting on; session appeared to specialize in '1 -house bills'; Assembly rules came in for abuse by Repubs; Gov Carey illus with Speaker Steingut; Assemblyman William B Hoyt illus with paper airplane (L)

Dirt-track motorcycle racing involving children as young as 6 is popular sport in US; championship minicycle circuit has been formed; 400 child and teen-age riders from all over country appeared at Houston, Tex, event, on July 4 weekend, part of 11-meeting series, each involving 40 or more races; competition is intense, and commercialization and promotion abound; there is constant threat of serious injury, although both parents and contestants belittle it; better riders train like athletes, riding almost every day; some contestants and their parents comment on racing and its dangers; Houston meet and accidents involved described; illus (L)

Pres Ford says that while he has no 'specific information' to indicate that Alexander P Butterfield or any other White House aide in Nixon Adm had been secretly employed by CIA, his Adm is looking into that possibility, news conf, Chicago (S)