May 20, 1979

Transportation Sec Brock Adams says he doubts if decontrol of domestic oil prices will stimulate increase in oil production, May 19 news conference; does not disagree with decision to decontrol, which he says will lead to conservation; backs windfall profits tax, saying that some of revenues from it might be used to further basic research programs on new automotive technology; White House has estimated that decontrol will save up to 200,000 bbls of oil a day next year and up to 1.1 million in '85, with 75% of saving coming from new production and 25% from conservation; illus (M)

TRENTON

Having sunk President Carter's gasoline rationing proposal, House pemocrats last week prepared to launch a plan to keep cars off the road one day a week. It was just about the only thing floating upright in a sea of contradiction over energy bolicy.

BALTIMORE, May 19 — As Spectacular Bid's trainer said today after .the 104th Preakness Stakes, “What can I tell you? You saw it. He did it all.”

Article by Rev Robert E Lauder on plays Meeting by the River, Faith Healer, Whose Life Is It Anyway? and The Elephant Man, which he says are filled with questions and meanings that preoccupy priests and plague philosophers; illus (L)