Article comments on Met Opera's high level of artistry being offered in this yr's productions and relative stability that Met appears to enjoy after period of great unrest and dissension; illus of some of season's stars (L)

The Season Peaks With 'Tannhäuser'

Bryan Miller article on Fred and Hedwig Ferber, who have turned their 212 acres of wooded land in W Milford Twp, NJ, into private wildlife reserve; they comment on animals that roam free on their property, noting that only animal that is penned, for its own protection, is bear; illus (M)

Passaic‐A Refuge for Beast and Man

travel article on Central Fla's tourist attractions; illus (L)

The Other Worlds Near Disney World

Article on prospect of major development of seaport in light of current nationwide interest in saving old places; feasibility study being conducted by Rouse Co noted; Seaport pres John Hightower, bd chmn Robert McCullough and NYC architect/planner Robin Burns comment; illus (M)

Seaport the Focus Of Push for Development

James Egan travel article on Williamstown, Mass, site of Singer sewing machine heir Robert Sterling Clark's art collection; illus (part 2) (L)

The Beauty of Williamstown

IT won't do the Vietnam dead much good to know that here is a novel that makes us think of Hemingway, but survivors should certainly take note of this highly original work by Tim O'Brien, a Vietnam veteran and Washington Post foreign affairs reporter.

A Separate Peace

Ouster at Museum Protested

James B. Conant Is Dead at 84; Harvard President for 20 Years

The ICnicks overpowered the Milwau. kee ]lucks, 133&#8208;122, last night at Madison Square Garden and called lita fun nioli h.

Knicks Defeat Bucks, 133422, as McAdoo Scores

USSR, in editorial pub in Communist party paper Pravda, says strategic arms limitation talks are stalled on several old issues including cruise missile, Soviet Backfire bomber and weapons modernization; warns Carter Adm against trying to use threat of treaty rejection by US Sen to win concessions from USSR; does not indicate what Soviet response might be to US proposal that Leonid I Brezhnev might pledge, outside formal treaty, to limit deployment of Backfire (M)

SOVIET BLAMES ll,S,, NOTABLY CONGRESS, FOR ARMS IMPASSE

Article 2 -- No Title

A heavyweight championship fight will take place  in Las Vegas, Nev., Wednesday night, to be shown live on home television, and the question that hangs over it is &#8220;why?&#8221;

Spinks Fight Looms as Sort of Self‐Test for All

Business interests are increasingly using tax&#8208;exempt foundations to fight government regulations and the impact of environmental groups. Page 28.

Business Groups Fight Back

Article on buying home in NYC offers advice on what to be aware of in title closings; chart shows closing statement for sale of 1-family house in Queens; illus (L)

ABC's of Title Closings

article on financial dealings in Hollywood film indus following Begelman case (L)

The Hollywood Game Grows Rich — and Desperate

Weber, Eugen (Prof): Peasants into Frenchmen. The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914 revd by Leonard Bushkoff

French Connections

Pres Carter declares energy emergency in Ohio and orders preparation of plans to transfer coal and elec power to areas in need; declines to invoke Taft-Hartley; asks Labor Sec Marshall to continue efforts to facilitate collective bargaining process; warns of imminent indus layoffs and mandatory power cutbacks; other states facing critical shortages are Ind, Penna, W Va, Md, Ky, Mich and Va (M)

PRESIDENT ORDERS PLAN TO SEND GOAL TO EASE STRIKE CUIS

Never In 30 years of commercial television has there been a season so chaotic, so paradoxical and so marked with convulsive change.

The Networks Cry Havoc

TORONTO, Feb. 11&#8212;An onlooker might have thought it was the Broad Street Bullies, perhaps, who had beaten New York, 3;2, tonight, the way the Rangers were licking their wounds and screaming &#8220;foul play&#8221; afterward.

Rangers Beaten, 3‐2, by Maple Leafs Late Charge Falls Short

PARIS &#8212; President Anwar el&#8208;Sadat of Egypt touching base with European leaders again, as he has so often at difficult moments in the search for Middle East peace, to reassure himself and his friends and enemies at large that Europe still supports him.

But Europe Has Decided

Article examines campaign to preserve mansions The Cliffs and Adam Derby House in Oyster Bay, NY (M)

Preservationists Work to Keep. .

Where computers once stored business data, dishwashers do their duty. Where freight elevators once hauled office supplies, apartments have been carved. And in the prestigious corner suites once commanded by the corporate elite, affluent young couples have set up housekeeping. The transformation of office space into living space is well underway.

Office Space As Home: The Long And Short of It

Comment on service rendered to LI residents by Dix Hill, NY, volunteer firefighters during recent snowstorms (M)

Any Firehouse In a Storm

WE were sloughed in the usual despond, just the other week, in a smoke&#8208;filled room on the third floor of the Algonquin Hotel, waiting for some ice. As is almost always the case in midaftermoon at meetings of the board of directors of the

THE LITERARY VIEW

There was a time in New York when a building knew what it was. It was a place to live or a place to work, residential or commercial. Nowadays, though, with all the conversions around town, the distinction is becoming blurred. Some buildings can't make up their minds&#8208;or don't want to, preferring to wait and see which way the market goes.

The ‘Either‐0r’ Strategy

Paul Anderson is an English film and television actor who came to prominence for portraying Arthur Shelby Jr. in Peaky Blinders, Mr Anderson in the 2015 film The Revenant, and Sebastian Moran in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

February 12, 1978

Headlines from February 12, 1978

The Season Peaks With 'Tannhäuser'

Passaic‐A Refuge for Beast and Man

The Other Worlds Near Disney World

Seaport the Focus Of Push for Development

The Beauty of Williamstown

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

Foot Loose + Fancy Free

All 'n' All

News Of The World

The Stranger

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 12, 1978