November 26, 1978

HAWKS! “ came the cry echoing over a quiet meadow north of Waterbury. recently — an area used these days as the gliderport for the Connecticut Soaring Center. Suddenly the giant birds could be seen flapnine their wines 20 feet above the treetops, swirling skywards in a upward current of warm air known to the fliers as a thermal.

Galena is known as the town time forgot. While most places its size — 4,000 people, give or take a few — have evolved into faceless neon and plastic franchise towns, no different from the last place back down the road, Galena has been so remarkably unchanged it almost as if it had been buried for hundred years beneath the same kind of volcanic ash that has preserved Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A massive blood‐typing program designed to spot false pedigrees has been accelerated by The Jockey Club as a result of several equine paternity suits and reports of other possible breeding deceptions. The program is designed to halt or prevent what some of horse racing's top leaders fear could become another major scandal: fraud on the breeding farm.

Sec Vance says Amer-Soviet relations are improving, NY Times int; says relations (M)

Had they died for a cause in which everyone could believe, they would have been called martyrs. But the members of the People's Temple shared a belief system that, though surely coherent and laudable to them, seems others tragically misguided and even psychotic.