Article on increase in vandalism at LIRR stations, problem which costs rr some $300,000 to $400,000 annually for repairs; illus (L)

Vandalism On L.I.R.R. Gets Worse

Various ad agency executives comment on apparent decline in technique of comparative advertising; they include Ralph Daniels (NBC), Philip Levine (Ogilvy & Mather) and Stanley I Tannenbaum (Kenyon & Eckhardt); case involving Gillette and J Walter Thompson Co noted; drawings (L)

Oh, for the Good Old Days of Brand X

The Supreme Cant Wiled last week, 6 to 3, that the First Amendment does not protect journalists defending libel suits against having to testify on opinions, judgments and conversations they held while preparing atories.

Court Removes A Libel ‘Barrier’

comment on controversy over finding new purpose for Playland in Rye, NY; alternatives are theme park, small park or combined amusement area and nature reserve; suggestions by Westchester County Executive Alfred B DelBello and Thomas Coash, chairman of Rye City Recreation Commission, noted; illus (L)

Playland Comes to a Crossroad

Article on international factors that have led to dollar's dramatic turnabout; holds Pres Carter's program to support dollar and increased foreign inflation were behind dollar's rebound; Treas Under Sec Anthony M Solomon and Chase Manhattan Bank chmn David Rockefeller comment (L)

Dollar's Dramatic Turnabout

Harold Rosenberg book Barnett Newman revd

The Action Critic

NYS Gov Carey and NYC Mayor Koch announce that architect I M Pei has been selected to design $375 million NY Convention and Exhibition Center; say Columbia Univ Dean James S Polshek, who carried out detailed preliminary planning and cost studies, has been retained to oversee and coordinate architectural design work by I M Pei & Partners and associate minority firm Lewis-Turner Partnership; Pei por (M)

I. M. PEI WILL DESIGN CONVENTION CENTER

The Sun Belt it is not. But the place that is leading the state in the construction of new single&#8208;family homes and condominiums is Staten Island.

Staten Island Is Leading State In New‐Home Building

PLUGGING 1,400 statistical variables into a framework of 1,500 complex equations, a recent economic study has come up with what is a relatively bright outlook for the Island's economy.

In a Crystal Ball, Prosperity

PLUGGING 1,400 statistical variables into a framework of 1,500 complex equations, a recent economic study has come up with a relatively bright outlook for the economies of Fairfield County and the other northern suburbs of New York City.

Fairfield Outlook: A Good Economy

Though the epithets in New York City's bail ccatroversy were less inflamatory last week, the debate persisted over whether Criminal Court Judge Bruce McM. Wright should be called, as the police did, &#8220;Turn 'em Loose Bruce,&#8221; or, as 21 black and civil&#8208;liberties groups suggested in his defense, &#8220;Treat 'em Right. Wright.&#8221;

Many Queries, Few Replies in Bail Case

Hollywood, more than most places, knows what it means to &#8220;hitch your wagon to a star.&#8221; A judge in Los Angeles last week ordered Lee Marvin, the Academy Award&#8208;winning actor, to pay $104,000 &#8212; $1,000 a week for two years &#8212; to Michelle Triola Marvin to help her reestablish an independent life, after six years with Mr. Marvin.

All Smiles After ‘Palimony' Ruling

Article examines progress on preparation in Moscow, illus; map (L)

Moscdw Primes for Olympics

I HAVE ghosts in my attic, hundreds of them. At night I can hear them shrilling, like frogs in the spring. Sometimes they talk to me in my sleep.

At Home: Replying to Ghosts in the Attic Is Complicated ... It Takes Time

Comment on increasing reliance on media event, campaign stunt performed because it will look good in newspapers and on TV, in politics; illus (M)

The Media Event Comes of Age in British Politics

IT would be hard to write the recent history of Cambodia &#8212; 10 tragic years of devastation, war, turmoil, and now invasion and occupation by the hated Vietnamese &#8212; without going into the miscalculations and deliberate lies of Henry Kissinger and Richard M. Nixon. Even so charitable an account as Marvin and Bernard Kalb's &#8220;Kissinger&#8221; acknowledged that the United States invasion of Cambodia in 1970 widened the war instead of narrowing it and told bow official records were falsified to conceal the secret bombing campaign in 1969.

War Story

David Halberstam book The Powers That Be, discussing 4 important news orgns including the Los Angeles Times, revd

News Report

Rhodesia's parliamentary election ends with reptd turnout of about 65% of eligible voters, figure that officials say is 'definite rebuff' by blacks to front; Election Directorate says over 1.8 million of estimated electorate of 2.8 million already have voted; all but 106,000 of voters were blacks; Freedom House will submit rept to Carter Adm and Congress on elections; Prime Min Smith and Freedom House official Bayard Rustin comment; illus (L)

RHODESIAN ELECTION EMDS WITH TURNOUT PUT AT 65 PERCENT

DICK and Eleanor Chapman used to &#8220;rattle around and love it&#8221; in their six&#8208;room, four&#8208;bath house with a 30&#8208;foot living room and terraces upstairs and down. They filled the place with books and gave a lot of parties, and the entire family enjoyed the space.

Housing: Rezoning for 2‐Family Conversions

Washington &#8212; When the political upheaval in Iran accelerated six months ago, few American officials anticipated that one of the serious consequences would be to cast deep doubt on the ability of the Carter Administration to persuade the Senate to approve a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the Soviet Union.

Verification Arguments Aren't Only Technical

PHILADELPHIA, April 21 &#8212; The Mets finally seemed to have set their infield earlier this week when they acquired Frank Taverns from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Their new infield held together for only four innings tonight in a 3&#8208;0 loss to the Phillies.

Phils Blank Mets for 6th in Row

striking tugboat operators' union refuses to let its members carry out court order; Bruce McIver, NYC director of labor relations, says city will probably seek damages against union; city may also ask for assistance from Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers; impact of strike on city sanitation services noted (M)

TUG UNION BALKING AT JUSTICE'S ORDER TO REMOVE GARBAGE

IT LOOKS like Elizabeth is going to continue to smell,&#8221; an economist remarked recently as he inspected the results of a 10&#8208;year economic forecast for the industrialized northern area of New Jersev.

New Jersey in 1990: A Forecast

Trend toward advertising and visual public-service messages beamed to passers-by from sidewalk structures seems to be increasing; NYC Planning Commission, worried about clutter and commercialism, has accordingly drafted new regulations; applications have been made to Bureau of Franchises by 2 companies that seek to erect several hundred 'time towers,' freestanding columns supporting large, illuminated advertising panels and digital readings of time and temperature; time-tower proposals have been certified by Planning Commission in uniform land-use review process and now must be subjects of public hearings by community boards, commission and Board of Estimate; 2 companies are Adver:Times and Plani-Time; illus (L)

Is It Time For Ad Clocks On Sidewalks?

H Kramer comment on controversy over proposed sale of Stuart portraits; illus (M)

ART VIEW

Zoltán Gera is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Fulham, Pécsi Mecsek and Harkány SE, as well as enjoying two spells at Ferencváros and West Bromwich Albion.

Zoltán Gera, Hungarian international footballer and manager

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Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the frontman, guitarist, and main songwriter of the rock band Silverchair. Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and one half of Dreams with Luke Steele. On March 13, 2015 Johns released his first solo EP Aerial Love and on March 22, 2015, he released his first solo LP Talk. Johns' second solo album FutureNever was released on 22 April 2022.

April 22, 1979

Headlines from April 22, 1979

Vandalism On L.I.R.R. Gets Worse

Oh, for the Good Old Days of Brand X

Court Removes A Libel ‘Barrier’

Playland Comes to a Crossroad

Dollar's Dramatic Turnabout

Billboard 200

Spirits Having Flown

Minute By Minute

Dire Straits

2-hot

Blondes Have More Fun

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 22, 1979