Saudi Arabia reptdly Mdg largest airport in world at Jidda, which will cost at least $4.5 billion and which will be twice size of Manhattan Is, NYC; facility will cover area of 41 sq mi; described; Saudis have hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Lockheed Internatl Inc, Minora Yamasaki & Assocs and Ralph M Parsons Co-Amer business concerns--to oversee project; map; illus (M)

Saudi Arabia Building a Mammoth Airport

NY Times/CBS News survey of Amer attitudes toward social class finds 69% of those polled consider themselves to bo in middle or working class, and that 44% feel that income determines class identity; finds 25% feel they do not belong to any class; poll demonstrates that 1 reason few Amers have developed strong class consciousness is that they feel rapid mobility between classes is possible; finds 17% of blacks, and 10-12% of others, say they belong to class higher than 1 in which they grew up; finds class definitions overlap and vary widely; other findings detailed; charts showing answers to some of survey's questions (M)

Social Mobility and Views on Class

Co repts worldwide net income in 1st qr rose to $141 million, while consolidated sales rose to $1.38 billion; earnings from operations rose to $265.4 million, while pretax earnings rose to $262 million; chmn Walter K Fallon and pres Colby H Chandler comment (S)

KODAK'S EARNINGS FOR FIRST QUARTER UP 50%, A RECORD

James J. &#8216;Jordan Jr., former president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, is hack in bUsiness today as chairman and chief executive of James. Jordan Inc. He says it .will cost him more than $1 million in severance pay. Page D6.

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Article examines tech advances in athletics and their effect on performance; illus; graph (M)

Can Technology Win the Game?

Article on intensified Fed probe of allegations that corp execs are abusing and fraudulently violating perquisites; SEC chief of enforcement Stanley Sporkin comments; examples of perks provided to execs by some cos noted; illus (M)

Executives’ Use Of Perquisites Draws Scrutiny

Knicks Ousted By 76ers, 112‐107

Reporter's Notebook column on Vance's visit to USSR; notes Carter Adm's shift from policy of openness to that of secrecy in conducting negotiations; Vance illus (M)

Reporter's Notebook: In Russia, Some Nuances of U .S. Diplomacy

money-mkt economists predict Reserve will soon raise short-term interest rates by another qr-point, touching off general credit tightening; cite reasons for current tightening; Jan-Apr graph of mkt rates (M)

NEW RISE IN INTEREST BY FED IS PREDICTED, WITH TIGHTER CREDIT.

Kennecott assails Curtiss-Wright chmn T Roland Berner in lr to shareholders and ad in major newspapers; Fed Judge Lloyd MacMahon to begin hearings on 4 charges brought by Kennecott against Curtiss-Wright stemming from its proxy fight to take control (S)

Letter by Kennecott Assails Curtiss Head

Comment on intense recruiting drives among colls for able students; attributes competition to declining pool of available hs grads and candidates able to do high-level acad work; recruiting efforts at Barnard Colls and other insts noted; illus (M)

Colleges Try Hard Sell To Get Able Students

Choice for new pres has been narrowed to acting pres Nathaniel H Siegel and Clark Univ grad school dir Saul B Cohen; Siegel supporters say he will maintain coll as acad 'jewel' of univ system, while Cohen reptdly will reach out to city for enrollment diversity; implications of choice discussed; illus of Cohen and Siegel (L)

A New Queens College President To Be Chosen by Trustees Tonight

article on US resistance to proposal by IMF dir gen H Johannes Witteveen that IMF mop up surplus dollars and replace them with SDRs; US reptdly- opposes plan on grounds that: it does nothing to deal with problem resulting from privately held dollars, envisages freezing of dollars that are turned into IMF thus making them 2d-class assets; EEC finance mins reptdly back proposal; SDRs represent mkt-basket of currencies which nations hold as reserves to settle their internatl accts; Witteveen illus (M)

U.S. Resisting Witteveen's Plan For Supplanting Surplus Dollars

TORONTO, April 23&#8212;The quarterfinal series between the Islanders and the Toronto Maple Leafs returned to Square One tonight aS the Leafs won, 3&#8208;1, to tie the four-of-seven-game National Hockey League playoff at two games apiece.

Islanders Lose; Series Tied, 2‐2

Hungary's Communist Party Central Com decides on econ measures that will phase out most Govt subsidies for consumer goods over next 2 yrs and possibly touch off largest price increases in decade; com undergoes changes of top personnel in its secretariat and econs dept; casualties include sr of 6 party secs, Bela Biszku, who is 1 of original supporters of Janos Kadar; number of secs is raised to 7, with addition of Justice Min Mihaly Korom and Deputy Prime Min Ferenc Havasi, both of whom resigned their Govt positions (M)

HUNGARIAN ECONOMY TO UNDERGO CHANGES

All Angels' Episcopal Church (Manhattan): All Angels Ch, Manhattan, is officially closed, but its parish hall is active as remaining members of Episcopal congregation share it with 4 other congregations; All Angels cannot maintain bldg economically, so it allows other congregations to worship there to help pay expenses; guest congregations noted; illus (M)

A Church Goes Co‐op to Survive

passengers leave Helsinki aboard Korean Air Lines plane for Far East destinations; co-pilot Cha Soon Do attributes plane's diversion from course to failure of navigational equipment; passengers say single Soviet interceptor fired on plane, which went into steep dive, plunging from 35,000 to 3,000 ft in 5 mins; say pilot spent 1 1/2 hrs searching for smooth landing site; describe ordeal; Amer and Japanese diplomats bitterly protest detention of pilot and navigator; no attempts will be made to recover plane; illus; map (M)

SOUTH KOREAN PLANE PLUNGED 30,000 FEET AFTER BEING FIRED ON

Coca-Cola introduces noncarbonated, vitamin-fortified soft drink called Hi-C; illus (M)

Coke's Hi‐C Aims to Raise Food Value of Soft Drinks

news analysis finds Vance visit to USSR has eased friction between both nations but that main issues of disagreement remain far from resolution and restoration of confidence in Carter Adm as negotiating partner appears far from complete

Better Atmosphere in Moscow

2d in series details further questionable practices by undertakers and sharp dichotomy between thoughtful discussions on need for funeral ritual and day-to-day responses of many undertakers to bereaved; illus (M)

Disputed Practices of Undertakers Are Defended by Some in Business

Currency Comptroller, FDIC, Fed Reserve and HLBB have sponsored hearings in NY and 5 other cities on ways to enforce Community Reinvestment Act, which requires agencies to spur banks and other financial insts to meet credit needs of 'entire community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods'; opposition to law from bank reprs, including NY Savings Banks Assn noted; Currency Comptroller Heimann scores stand; testimony by NY Savings Assn League pres Paul A Schosberg, Assemblyman John Esposito, Bronx Boro Pres Robert Abrams, Harlem C of C repr Andrew Gainer, Pratt Inst Center for Community and Environmental Development repr Catherine Herman and Natl Neighborhoods Comm exec dir Bob Kuttner, who helped Sen William Proxmire draft law, noted (M)

`Community’ Law . On Loans Debated'.

Many big NY banking cos rept strong earnings increases for 1st qr; Calif banks rept continuing high earnings gains; M A Schapiro & Co repts operating earnings of 1st 100 banking cos to rept results jumped 24.4%; outlook for NYC banks discussed; table shows changes in some key sources of earnings for top 15 bank holding cos (M)

Major New York Banks Report Strong Rise in 3‐Month Profits

News Summary

News of compromise causes shares of leading producers to climb on NYSE; suspicion presists in Wall Street that unacceptable qualification will be added before proposal is enacted; analysts Charles Maxwell, Barry C Good and Rosario Ilacqua discuss several cos, including Mesa Petroleum, Inexco, Southland Royalty and NFC Corp (M)

Market Place

Green Speed, the Hambletonian winner who seems destined to break every trotting record in the book, will be syndicated for $3.2 million, about half&#8208;million less than the record sum for a standardbred, paid for .Nero. Mcrty Finder of Pine Hollow Stud in Pine Bush, N.Y.. is putting together the partnership. The syndication will be announced today.

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April 24, 1978

Headlines from April 24, 1978

Saudi Arabia Building a Mammoth Airport

Social Mobility and Views on Class

KODAK'S EARNINGS FOR FIRST QUARTER UP 50%, A RECORD

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Can Technology Win the Game?

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

Slowhand

Even Now

The Stranger

Weekend In L.a.

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 24, 1978