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Stanley Klein article on booming minicomputer indus, pioneered by Digital Equipment Corp in '60s, that is replacing centralized computers used on time‐sharing basis; also discusses concept of microcomputers; Bell Laboratories pres William O Baker, Bolt Beranek and Newman scientist Eric D Wolfe and Data Gen vp Roland Thomas comment; cartoon (M)

Mini Revolution in the Computer World

NBC has reptdly agreed to $2‐million out‐of‐ct settlement of sex bias suit brought by women employees; settlement is said to involve 2,800 past, present and future women employees in NYC, of whom perhaps 1,000 will share the $2‐million; other provisions believed to be part of settlement noted (M)

$2 Million Settlement Is Reported In Women's Bias Suit Against NBC

Comment on decision of Rockville Centre Educ Bd to upgrade segregated grade school to make it more attractive to white transfer students, as alternative to closing school completely (L)

Rockville Centre Tries Again

Article on plight of LI Sound marina owners during winter freeze; illus (M)

`You Can Hear the Destruction’

Article on failure of experimental free‐bus systems in 6 Westchester cities; says White Plains survey conducted for Transportation Dept indicates population is not taking advantage of service, which aims providing bus rides to shopping dists and lessening auto traffic congestion and pollution; Mayors, White Plains Regional C of C pres Harold E Vogt and Westchester Transportation Comr R Raleigh D'Adamo comment (M)

Shoppers Bypass Free‐Bus Bargain

TOMMY GORZISKA was walking on water last week, but his face showed no elation. The water had frozen into a highway of ice onefoot thick in New Rochelle harbor, locking in around boats, docks, and pilings and exerting a destructive force as it snifted with the tides. As Mr. Gorziska, a boat&#8208;club owner, walked, the sharp winter air bristled with the pop, crackling and moaning of wood slowly giving way.

‘You Can Hear the Destruction’

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 12 (AP) &#8212;Jo Jo Hunter, a freshman, scored a career&#8208;high of 24 points as Maryland upset Clemson today, 84&#8208;78.

Maryland 84, Clemson 78

Enthusiasm for converting vast areas of Manhattan's commercial and manufacturing buildings to housing stock has recently risen from the Canal Street and Soho areas as far north as midtown. Proponents of residential conversion and its stopgap measure, legalized loft living, offer a scenario of &#8220;fashionable and artistic projects and complexes,&#8221; with Soho as an &#8220;arts center&#8221; and the Garment District as a &#8220;crafts epicenter,&#8221; But this scenario presages the end, not the renewal, of urban diversity.

Point of View

NY Times survey of Pres Carter's econ stimulus program aimed at creating jobs and easing unemployment; Adm officials, including Marshall, hold 2‐million Amers could be placed in jobs or training if Cong approves pkg; Cong Dems argue that significant proportion of jobless workers can be put back to work only through massive Govt spending; hold Carter's program is too modest; conservative politicians and economists want programs cut; public service, public works and countercyclical revenue sharing sections of pkg discussed; chart shows current and proposed spending for '77 and '78 in different programs (M)

Uncertain Yield of Carter Job Bill To Intensify Debate on Spending

1st in series of 3 articles on problems surrounding maritime transport of oil into US; notes wreck of Argo Merchant and rash of tanker mishaps that followed, have aroused natl concern over pollution; illus of tanker Sansinena after explosion in Los Angeles (M)

Flag‐of‐Convenience Oil Tankers Magnifying Concern About Spills

USSR, through Pravda ed, defends its campaign against dissidents and denounces them as pawns in coordinated Western assault on detente and Communism (M)

Soviet Defends Drive on Dissidents And Alleges West Is Abetting Them

WASHINGTON&#8212;In the autumn of 1975, when the Senate Intelligence Committee was checking allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency had plotted to kill Patrice Lumumba, who had been Prime Minister of Congo, committee investigators visited a former Central Intelligence Agency officer named Bronson Tweedy.

New Leaders for Two Sensitive Agencies

Changing

Henry Ford 2d, Nearing 60, Ponders America's Future

UA‐Columbia Cablevision and Cablevision Systems Westchester seek to win cable‐TV contracts in Westchester County. NY; new mkt for cable is linked to Home Box Office, Time Inc's pay‐TV channel (M)

Cable TV: County On Verge Of a Boom

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 12&#8212;Remember when they would say Earl Monroe was strictly a one&#8208;on&#8208;one player, interested only in scoring? Remember, too, when they would say defense was a nonexistent word in the Monroe vocabulary?

Monroe Lauded for His All‐Round Game

Comment on exhibit of Chinese art at LIU's C W Post Art Gallery; exhibit consists of objects that span period of 4,000 yrs from prehistoric times to modern era; illus (L)

A ‘Powerhouse’ of Chinese Art

Cauthen Facing a Ban

Woman Chief Justice and a Black Are Named to Court in California

Article on new Amer playwrights David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, Christopher Durang and Michael Cristofer; illus (L)

The Daring Visions of Four New, Young Playwrights

WASHINGTON&#8212;President Carter last week confessed that the White House had &#8220;made some mistakes&#8221; in dealing with Congress, and promised to do better. No doubt he will, in one fairly limited sense.

Will They Dance?; President and Congress May Have Trouble Staying in Step

Fallaci, Oriana: Letter to a Child Never Born revd by Francine du Plessix Gray; Fallaci por

Letter to a Child Never Born

Brookings Inst study finds that block grant program meant to aid old cities of North will instead benefit small towns, suburbs and Western cities if program is unchanged by '80; finds 18 of 20 ‘worst‐off’ cities will get less Fed urban aid by '80 than they got in '70 under previous grants, and that towns with populations of 100,000 or less will get more than half of all Fed community development money

CITIES IN NORTH FACE REDUCED FEDERAL AID UNDER BLOCK GRANTS

New Rochelle, having grown enormously during last 3 decades to city of 75,000, seen having to face up to its urban nature; is having to confront typical inner suburban city problems of shrinking tax base and aging business center; revitalization efforts noted; illus (L)

New Rochelle: A Mature Suburb Feeling Its Age

Randy Gene Moss is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and San Francisco 49ers. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he holds the NFL single-season touchdown reception record, as well as the NFL single-season touchdown reception record for a rookie.

February 13, 1977

Headlines from February 13, 1977

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Mini Revolution in the Computer World

$2 Million Settlement Is Reported In Women's Bias Suit Against NBC

Rockville Centre Tries Again

`You Can Hear the Destruction’

Billboard 200

A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)

Hotel California

Songs In The Key Of Life

Wings Over America

A Day At The Races

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 13, 1977