July 12, 1978

If you called Emily Tom a snoop, she wouldn't be insulted. She'd be flattered. Over the years, she's found that there's a great education to be had in peeping through doorways, keeping her eyes open and being feisty enough to speak up, ask questions, poke her nose into things that are, truly, none of her business.

Vance and Gromyko arrive in Geneva, pledge to work toward strategic arms accord; neither mentions trials of Shcharansky and Ginzburg; Vance again insists on necessity of seeking arms accord without linking it to any other issue (M)

Sen approves construction of $1.9 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, despite Carter Adm objections; adopts by voice vote policy statement saying that future carriers must be substantially smaller and less costly than nuclear-powered ones; Sen John C Stennis comments (S)

Article on headmaster Joseph A McPhillips and his efforts to make Amer School, Tangier, ‘the Andover of the Mediterranean’; Paul Luebke, official of State Dept's Office of Overseas Schools, whose office provides funds to Tangier school as well as to 150 other Amer community schools around world, comments; illus of McPhillips and students (L)

IBM to begin construction in Aug of 5-sided, 603-ft-high, 41-story skyscraper on Madison Av and 57th St, NYC; bldg will cost more than $75 million and almost quadruple amt of office and exhibition space that co had on site; will enable IBM to consol 8 of its 12 Manhattan offices; architect Edward Larrabee Barnes comments; sketch (M)