The other day while watching Robert Altman's new film, the end&#8208;of&#8208;the&#8208;world fantasy called &#8220;Quintet,&#8221; I could feel the blood rushing to my feet and my heart wanting to follow. The movie was both leaving me cold and giving me the sweats.

FILM VIEW

As I passed through security at Heathrow Airport, the guard, seeing this book, said meaningfully &#8220;That looks interesting.&#8221; This reaction will doubtless please the author, as confirms a part of his thesis. The ??

Looking East in Error

Article on psychological implications of home ownership; notes psychiatrists, psychologists and real estate brokers agree that house represents one's identity and status; Dr Eugene Nininger comments; drawings (L)

Between Ego and House, A Highly Emotional Affair

Pres Carter's pol aides, expecting Gov Carey to chart ind course in '80 Pres election, begin quiet campaign to strenghten their ties to variety of different influential Dems in NYS (M)

Carter, Wary of Carey Ambitions, Is Courting Other State Democrats

Article on Village Sq, which was to be model of urban renewal and future hope of Glen Cove, LI's failing downtown business area; renewal effort has slowed to near-standstill, with no new business or bldgs to replace many torn down during initial phases of renewal project; shopowners who moved in earlier now are threatening to move; Mayor Vincent A Suozzi urges merchants to be patient; illus (L)

Renewal Plan Falters in Glen Cove

Article on J I Sopher & Co, leading renting agency for luxury high-rise apts in area; co has been renting agent for 80 bldgs since '66; pres Hank Sopher comments; illus (L)

Who Knows How Much Rent You Can Afford? Hank Sopher, That's Who

TEHERAN, Iran &#8212; When leftist guerrillas of the People's Fedayeen invaded the Intercontinental Hotel in Teheran last week, they announced its occupation in the name of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A black&#8208;robed ayatollah arrived soon after to plead with them to leave in the name of Avntotinh Khomeini. A few hours later, a new group of Is

Many Factions Begin the Real Struggle for Power

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17 &#8212; The Rangers played it differently this afternoon. Instead of grabbing a lead and then losing it, they let the Philadelphia Flyers assume the burden. Then the New Yorkers rallied with four goals in the third period for a 4&#8208;2 victory at the Spectrum.

Ranger Rally Beats Flyers

Drew Middleton mil analysis of Chinese invasion of Vietnam; notes experts expect that operation will be hit-and-run raid on vast scale; fighting described; maps (M)

A Classic Military Operation

Bristol, Conn, Lake Compounce Amusement Pk's 1890-vintage carousel has been added to Natl Register of Historic Places; Richard Norton, 1 of pk's mgrs, comments (S)

An amusement‐park carrousel rides to national distinction.

Article on growing popularity of dog-sledding at Firemen's Memorial Pk, Ridge, NY; clubs and orgns that participate in races in pk noted; members comment; illus (M)

‘Let's Go!’ And the Dog Sleds Race Off

Article on changes in scope of child day-care services offered in Westchester County, NY, as more mothers take jobs; notes there are record 53 licensed day-care centers in county serving about 3,000 children and another 1,800 children are being served by home-based day care; county Day Care Council exec dir Inez Singletary and asst dir Marilyn Selig comment; illus (M)

Day Care Moves Up From Poverty

Face it, theatergoers just aren't taking to the modern school of drama &#8212; astringent, stylized plays that have no stories or characters or feelings. Today's theatergo

The Case for

Article on dispute between Westchester Community Services Council and county's United Way over United Way's decision to cut off council's funds; United Way exec dir Dennis Murphy and council exec dir Mel Diamond comment (M)

Charity Groups In Bitter Feud

Prime Min Bazargan says new Govt intends to resume oil exports as soon as possible (S)

Iranian Premier Talks of Resuming Oil Sale to U.S. as Soon as Possible

article on formation of arson task force, New Haven; Fire Chief John P Reardon comments; illus of arson squad and some burned bldgs (M)

Arson Fight Heats Up

THERE'S a scene in &#8220;Identity Card,&#8221; by the Iranian novelist F.M. Esfandiary, in which an American and an Iranian meet at a party in Teheran. &#8220;Let me tell you something,&#8221; the American says. &#8220;Americans and Europeans don't know how live. Here it is different, people don't rush all the time,

Please Don't Call It Persia

WHITE PLAINS THE scene in the probate department of Surrogate's Court was a familiar one &#8212; a lawyer sitting patiently at the desk of Adolph C. Peterka, the probate clerk, while Mr. Peterka examined a will being submitted for validation.

A Day in the Life of Probate Court

debate among Johanson, Leakey and White over new species outlined; Johanson and Leaky illus (M)

Rival Anthropologists Divide on ‘Pre‐Human’ Find

Article on Fed and state actions in NJ aimed at correcting yrs of unregulated dumping of indus wastes; comments by US Atty Robert J Del Tufo, Beatrice S Tylutki, dir of Solid-Waste Adm, and Dr Peter W Preuss, who is trying to establish link between high incidence of indus and environmental pollution in state and its high rate of cancer death; graph of cancer mortality in state '59-69; illus of Kin Buck landfill, whose owners are being sued by Fed Govt to insure containment and cleanup of 71 million gals of hazardous wastes alleged to have been dumped there; illus stacked bbls of wastes at Chem Control Corp, Elizabeth, which state is trying to have cleared away; map shows communities whose well water has been contamination (L)

Pollution Law Faces Major Test

Article on Albeit Einstein to commem upcoming 100th anniv of his birth; notes Einstein not only was genius of science but activist in pol affairs; says his basic aloofness may have blocked even greater achievements in both arenas; illus (L)

CELEBRATING EINSTEIN

In 1963, Igor Stravinsky emerged from a performance of &#8220;Don Carlo&#8221; in Hamburg and, according to his chronicler Robert Craft, rapturously exclaimed: &#8220;What scope and vitality Verdi had, and with what scale he could endow his people! How I would like to have known him!&#8221;

When Character Comes to Life in Opera

Toby Knight and Glen Gondrezick typified the Knicks' plight last night as the team plunged to last place in the National Basketball Association's Atlantic Division.

Knicks Lose 6th Straight

&#8220;MY morale is dancing at the moment,&#8221; Bernard Malamud said on the eve of the publication of &#8220;Dubin's Lives,&#8221; a novel that took five and a half years of his life. Although the reviewers ??e public reads had not yet returned their verdicts, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Malamud's pub

A Talk With the Novelist

For all the ways that the Iranian revolution was astonishing, it was most remarkable, perhaps, for standing Mao Tse&#8208;tung's famous aphorism on its bead. Political power did not grow out of the barrel of a gun; an unarmed population, unified mainly

Days Of Wrath

Richard Lee Petty, nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 43 Plymouth/Pontiac for Petty Enterprises. He is one of the members of the Petty racing family. He was the first driver to win the Cup Series championship seven times, while also winning a record 200 races during his career. This included winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times and winning a record 27 races in one season (1967). Petty is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history.

Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.

February 18, 1979

Headlines from February 18, 1979

FILM VIEW

Looking East in Error

Between Ego and House, A Highly Emotional Affair

Carter, Wary of Carey Ambitions, Is Courting Other State Democrats

Renewal Plan Falters in Glen Cove

Billboard 200

Blondes Have More Fun

Briefcase Full of Blues (Soundtrack)

Cruisin'

Spirits Having Flown

52nd Street

Historical Events

Historical Context for February 18, 1979