Thomas E. Mullaney

Consumer&#8217; buying in November reflected the firm pace that began early in 1977 as a dozen of the country's largest retail chains yesterday reported sales gains over 1976, most of them in the double digit range. &#8226;

Retail Chains’

MOSCOW, Dec. 1&#8212;What happens when a Soviet worker asks for a raise, or complains about safety violations on the job, or uncovers corruption among his employers?

Soviet Workers Tell of Hazards Of Complaining

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 &#8212; Scuttling&#8217; &#8220;lifeline&#8221; eleCtric rates for the elderly, the House-Senate energy conference completed action today on utility rate reform and prepared to face the big remaining issues: taxes and natural gas prices.

ENERGY CONFEREES COMPLETE ACTION ON UTILITY REFORM

New York State's Public Service Commission yesterday set new rates for the New York Telephone Company that give a caller three minutes instead of five for his first 10 cents in a pay&#8208;phone call and that reduce long&#8208;distance rates within the state by 5 percent.

HIGHER PHONE RATES APPROVED BY P.S.C.; COIN CALLS STILL 10C

At its annual holiday gala concert tonight, the Somers Chorale in Westchester will celebrate two big events of the month&#8212;Hanukkah and Christmas. The 8 P.M. program in the Somers High School Auditorium will include highlights from Handel's &#8220;Messiah&#8221; and Christmas carols, as well as traditional Hartukkah songs. The threeyear&#8208;old community chorus, which will be joined by several professional singers, has 50 members &#8220;who sound like 200,&#8221; according to Frank Karian, the director, who has sung with the Robert Shaw Chorale and other well&#8208;known groups. Admission is $3.50 (S1.50 for students). From New York take the Hutchinson River Parkway to Route 684; continue to Route 35 and turn right on Route 100. At Route 139, turn left and continue to the high school. Information: (914) 248&#8208;7778 or (914) &#8216;232&#8208;5375.

WEEKENDER GUIDE

BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 1&#8212;Harold M. Williams, chairman of th Securities and Exchange Commission, said today that the proposed Jan. 1 deadline for abolition of the remaining exchange restrictions on off&#8208;board trading will not be met. Th.e.

S.E.C. Puts. Off Deadline On End to Trading Curbs

THERE's a lot to he said for ice skating. In what other sport, except maybe stickball, has the equipment changed so little in the lifetime of the average adult? No trailing halfway across the state if not the continent; no expensive gear or clothes with the labels sewn on the outside, nothing more required apres than a bracing cup of chocolate. Isn't it wonderful?

Where To Have An Ice Day

In his years as a management recruiter, Gerard R. Roche, a senior vice president for Heidrick & Struggles Inc., has helped to identify and place many top corporate officials But there have been some failures along the way. Mr. Roche recalls one such episode with amusement and a little sadness&#8212;the case of a leading job candidate who lost out because of a fish.

Management

In the chill mist over the East River yesterday morning, Allan Fogel, sporting a jaunty yellow hard hat, climbed 9. catwalk into the steel cobwebs of the Queensboro Bridge and examined blisters of gray paint flaking from a peeling girder.

Auditors in Hard Hats: A New Breed

How Farm Commodities Have Performed

Of all forms of research, none are more mystifying to the uninitiated than efforts to probe theinner workings of the atom.

50 Years of Atom Smashers on View in Capital

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1&#8212; Americans are expressing sharp criticism of President Carter for raising tariffs and imposing a fee on sugar imports last month without consulting the other American nations, as he had promised

CARTER DRAWS FIRE FROM LATIN AMERICA ON U.S. SUGAR MOVES

A California company called Genentech said yesterday that it expects to use bacteria to manufacture a human brain hormone called somatostatin by the middle of next year, and human insulin within a year.

Coast Concern Plans Bacteria Use For Brain Hormone and Insulin

FIFTH AVENUE is still the city's elegant, ageless matron. Its fashionable stores still glisten. Its sidewalks are crowded with exuberant &#8216; Christmas shoppers. But that street of dreams houses more than diamond and silk confections now&#8208;&#8217; adays. From the south edge of Central Park to a few blocks short of Washington Square, Fifth Avenue has a decidedly literary look.

A Reader's Guide to Fifth Ave.

Early next year, a tanker riding oddly high in the water will steam 75. miles up Chesapeake Bay to an offshore docking platform one mile from a jut of land known as Cove Point, Md. The ship will tie up along one end of the half&#8208;mile&#8208;long pier, and five hollow mechanical arms will reach out like some spidery sea mon ster to siphon off the buoyant cargo&#8212;liquefied natural gas at a temperature of minus 259 degrees Fahrenheit.

Liquefied Gas Era May Be Ending Even as Supply Flood Is Starting

Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, under pressure from investigators in his own department, said yesterday that he would delay a planned appointment of a United States Attorney in Pittsburgh pending an inquiry into payments to a Congressman.

Bell Puts Off Naming U.S. Attorney Pending an Inquiry Into Payments

In a decline that was somewhat larger than expected, the nation's basic money supply dropped $2.4 billion in the week ended Nov. 23, the Federal Reserve discicised yesterday afternoon. The decrease caused a modest rebound in the credit markets.

Money Cut Aids Credit Markets

6 P.M., Billy Taylor, piano; 6:30, Bobby Short, vocalist and piano; 7, David Chesky Band; 8. Vera Auer Quartet; 8:30, Sheila Jordan Trio; 9, Dick Hyman, piano; Howard McGhee, trumpet; Pepper Adams, saxophone; 9:15, Eddie Bonnemere Orchestra and Choir with Evelyn Blakey, vocalist.

The Program *

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 1 &#8212;The South African Government's overwhelming victory in yesterday's general election appears to have set it more firmly than ever on a collision course with the country's black majority and with the foreign

Vorster Party's Landslide Victory Raises Possibility of Tougher Stand

The general stock market outperformed the Dow Jones industrial average-its best&#8208;known indicator-by&#8217; a handsome margin yesterday.

Dow Average Off 3.99 to 825.71, But Stock Advances Top Declines

A special mayoral commission, charging that the July 13 blackout in New York City and Westchester County was caused by the Consolidated Edison Company's poor management, recommended yesterday that the company's rates be cut when it gave inadequate service and that three &#8220;public&#8208;interest&#8221; trustees be appointed to the company's board of  directors.

MAYOR's PANEL URGES CUT IN CON ED's RATES MIEN SERVICE IS BAD

Factory orders increased by 3.4 percent and new construction rose by $1.1 billion in October, the Commerce. Department reported. .Page D3.

Orders, Construction Up

ALBANY, Dec. 1&#8212;In what appears to be a significant reversal, New York States wefare and capital Medicaid costs for the first six months of 1977 showed a substantial decline from the. corresponding period in 1976, according to a

New York Welfare Costs Declining

The deployment of United States neutron weapons in Western Europe has been urged by a West German defense expert who argues that, under present conditions, the conventional forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could not halt an attack by Warsaw Pact forces.

West German Urges Placing Neutron Weapons in Europe

Siyabonga Eugene Nomvethe is a South African former professional soccer player who played as a forward.

Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

Siyabonga_Nomvethe

The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries, remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as a head-of-state transport by the air forces of several countries.

A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Benghazi, Libya, killing 59.

December 2, 1977

Headlines from December 2, 1977

Thomas E. Mullaney

Retail Chains’

Soviet Workers Tell of Hazards Of Complaining

ENERGY CONFEREES COMPLETE ACTION ON UTILITY REFORM

HIGHER PHONE RATES APPROVED BY P.S.C.; COIN CALLS STILL 10C

Billboard 200

Simple Dreams

Rumours

Aja

Commodores Live!

Foot Loose + Fancy Free

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for December 2, 1977