article on Hudson's Bay Co's takeover bid and anticipated battle with Sears (M)

Canada's Retailers: Merger Skirmish

Some 350 students in NYC ps system are taking part 'mastery learning' program developed by Dr Benjamin Bloom; technique is based on supposition that almost every child can learn and is similar to programmed instruction in which a student who answers incorrectly must rev basic idea underlying question before going on to next step; educators hope expansion of program to other pss will stem seemingly irreversible decline in student achievements; illus (L)

EDUCATION

Chicago Univ team, headed by physicists Albert V Crewe and Michael S Isaacson, reptdly have obtained 1st 'color movies' ever made of atoms; technique employed scanning transmission electron microscope; strange behavior of atoms thus photographed noted (S)

Science Watch

ICC abolishes rule that bars cos that haul their own goods by truck from transporting goods for other shippers; Amer Trucking Assn assails action; illus (M)

I.C.C. Adds Competition In Trucking

Article on negative reaction in Japanese steel town of Kamaishi to Nippon Steel plant's announced cutback plans; illus (M)

Japanese Steel Town Upset by Cutback Plans

Guyanese forces pick their way through open-air pavilion, Jonestown, choked with bodies of 405 men, women and children, who apparently commited suicide on orders of leader Rev Jim Jones by drinking concotion of Kool-Aid and cyanide; survivor Odell Rhodes offers newsmen account of events; Rhodes describes how Jones plotted to kill Repr Ryan and others, and when alerted that some had survived plot, executed his 'ultimate plan,' mass suicides; notes Jones's decision to die amongst his followers on pavilion's altar; Guyanese police rept Jones died of bullet wound; whereabouts of remaining 400 or more cultists is unknown; Jones's legal wife and son died with him on altar; his mistress Maria Katsaris, whose mother was 1 of those wounded in airport shooting, apparently shot herself in head in nearby cabin after apparently feeding cyanide to 2 small boys she and Jones treated as sons; search of settlement turns up nearly 40 weapons and approximately $500,000 in US currency and many US Treas checks; lawyers Mark Lane and Charles Garry, who represented group, are picked up in jungle by Govt forces; they did not see killings; 50 Amer mortuary experts will be flown to site for identification of dead; US is expected to provide Guyanese with mil helicopters to airlift bodies to Georgetown; cult leader Sharon Amos and her 3 daughters are found with their throats slit in cult's hq, Georgetown; Min Field-Ridley offers Govt's sympathy to relatives of dead Amers; cult defector Deborah Layton Blakey describes some of cult's activities; drawing of ambush site at Port Kaituma airstrip; illus of suicide scene and ambush site; Jones por (L)

LEADER OF SECT DIES

NJ officials indicate that they would permit Bally Manufacturing Corp to demolish historic Blenheim Hotel rotunda on Atlantic City's boardwalk to make way for casino on ground that co could not earn reasonable return on its investment if state required it to save rotunda; opposition to demolishing of rotunda, led by preservationists, noted; other hotels on Boardwalk scheduled for demolition or extensive renovation listed; map (M)

Bally Corp. Plan to Build Casino On Historic Site Backed by Jersey

Westinghouse pleads guilty to falsification of Govt documents in effort to hide bribes to Ismail; is fined $300,000; Ismail por (M)

Company Is Fined In Bribery

Prof P V E McClintock repts that supplies of helium-3, form of helium needed for low-temperature research in quantum mechanics and their applications, are dwindling because US Govt, in pursuit of detente with USSR, has cut back hydrogen bomb production, a process that also yields helium-3, article in Nature (S)

A Rare Gas Made Rarer By Détente

Article on discovery of evidence of ancient tradition, which holds that origins of writing and mathematics are linked to special star-belief 1st identified in Sumerian writings; notes Egyptian hieroglyphic documents, including royal emblem of King Tutankhamen, refer to unusually spectacular stellar explosion that occurred 6,000 to 10,000 yrs ago; illus (M)

Egyptian Culture Is Linked To a Star

Continuing firmness in the dollar abroad and the announcement of a big increase in the Du Pont year&#8208;end dividend helped the stock market to post a moderate Rain yesterday.

Firm Dollar Helps Dow Climb 7.88

Shortages of high-octane unleaded gasoline are developing throughout country, prompting some stations to ration sales; shutdown of 2 Shell refineries has aggravated situation that was developing all yr, as motorists shifted from regular to premium lead-free gas to improve their cars' performance; gen demand for gasoline has also been increasing at surprising rate, a development linked in part to shift of population to South and good driving weather this fall; other possible factors noted (M)

SHORTAGES GROWING IN NO‐LEAD GASOLINE OF HIGHER OCTANES

6 Queens ptl who were suspended Nov 16 for 'cooping' will be fined $1,052 to $2,880 under recommendation made by McGuire (S)

Cooping Officers Get Large Fines, Year Probation

McGuire announces special reptg system has been set up to inform authorities about policemen illegally soliciting holiday gifts from public; reiterates Police Dept's position on gifts, lr to 50 leading business assns (S)

Warning by McGuire About Gifts for Police

Mistrial is declared in Bklyn cocaine case in which Kings Courier reporter Pamela O'Shaughnessy was ordered to testify and turn over notes from article she had written on drug trafficking in Bklyn; mistrial was ordered because police officer testifying for prosecution said on witness stand that defendant Michael Zagarino had been arrested before (S)

Cocaine Case Mistrial; Writ on Reporter Stays

Gene-mapping research by Drs Thomas Shows, Victor McKusick, Frank H Ruddle and others described; illus; search for chromosomes involved in specific human diseases is major target (M)

250 Genes Traced to Chromosomes

2 wall posters calling for public investigation into suppression and cover-up of major anti-Govt demonstration in Peking's Tien An Men Sq in 76 appear in Peking, raising questions concerning status of Chmn Hua; posters say inquiry is necessary so that those responsible for suppression and cover-up can be brought to justice; analysts in Hong Kong comment; por of Hua (M)

2 Peking Wall Posters Raise New Questions On the Status of Hua

Mayor Koch reptdly will ask pres Joseph T Lynaugh to resign; Lynaugh por; reptd irked at Lynaugh's unsuccessful effort to shift $10-million Lincoln Hosp contract from RC Misericordia Hosp back to Jewish-supported Albert Einstein Med Coll; Deputy Mayor Philip L Toia, at behest of Cath leaders, has overruled Lynaugh and criticized handling of contract; Koch also reptd angry with increasing politicization of munic hosp apptmts; Dr Frank Cicero and Msgr James Cassidy had complained about Lynaugh's role (M)

Koch Reported to Want Hospitals Chief to Resign

News Summary

Sect defectors Timothy Stoen, Anna Mobley and Wade Medlock depict cult's suicide rehearsals; remarks are made at meeting of group called Human Freedom Foundation, which was estab in Los Angeles in summer '77 by psychics Maria Papapetros and Jenita Cargile, after former cult members sought them out for counseling on how to 'deprogram' themselves (M)

Defectors From Sect Depict Its Rehearsals for Suicide

Kirk Kerkorian, owner of 48% of MGM Inc, says he will offer to purchase 1.75 million shares, about 20%, of Columbia Pictures for total of $42 million; purchase, added to shares he already owns, will give Kerkorian about 25% of Columbia stock; possible antitrust implications discussed; illus (L)

Kerkorian to Seek 20% of Columbia

Article examines progress on construction of Olympic facilities in Lake Placid; illus (M)

Work at Olympics Site Races Fall Sun

Dow Jones indus avg rise 7.88 points to 805.61 (M)

BUSINESS Digest

Article on research conducted by Dr Ida Thompson, Princeton Univ geologist and geophysicist, into growth rings of clamshells, which can, like rings of tree trunks, determine clams age; Thompson has found that some kinds of clams live for as long as 150 yrs, making them longest-lived invertebrates; illus (M)

History and Longevity's Secret Hunted in Clamshells

Thomas C Hays apptd pres and chief exec officer (S)

EXECUTIVE CHANGES

Daniel Mark Bradshaw is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).

November 21, 1978

Headlines from November 21, 1978

Canada's Retailers: Merger Skirmish

EDUCATION

Science Watch

I.C.C. Adds Competition In Trucking

Japanese Steel Town Upset by Cutback Plans

Billboard 200

52nd Street

Live And More

Double Vision

Living In The U.S.A.

Grease

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 21, 1978