December 2, 1979

Article on mixed reaction among Monmouth County, NJ, residents to repeal of blue law banning Sunday sales; notes it will be several months before shopkeepers will know whether extra day of business will mean greater profit; illus (M)

Hilton Kramer article on Anthony Blunt, British scholar and arts connoisseur, who was also for many years secret agent of USSR (M)

ABOARD AIR FORCE PLANE 970 — The aircraft is one of those wonderful early Boeing 707's, the kind with gently rounded engine cowlings and large oval luminescent cabin lights. It is among three in the Special Air Mission fleet. Vice President Mondale has used it ; former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger stole away on his secret trip to China aboard it.

Toughening mood among white Americans, including many who supported black demands in '60s, is seen reflected in end of aid to poor but gifted blacks that had been provided by residents of Shorewood, Wis, for school integration program; in other cities there is similar evidence that whites who are committed to ideal of integration are increasingly reluctant to support mechanics of integration, including busing and affirmative action programs; social implications of growing racial gap for both blacks and whites discussed; illus (L)

Article on construction of Karakoram Highway in western Himalayas; notes highway, which links China and Pakistan, is now completed after 20 years, at cost of unrecorded millions of dollars and hundreds of lives; illus; map (L)

Fiesta Bowl: Pittsburgh University to play; illus (M)

Holiday programming expressly for children, which starts today in earnest and will continue throughout the month, is, by and large, more inviting — albeit not necessarily better — than the standard fare. The following guide may be of help:

Rising heating oil prices and doubts about supply are causing many oil heat customers in Westchester to shift to gas; Greenburgh Housing Authority, which intended to convert its 6 scatter‐site low‐income housing sections from electric to oil heat, has decided to convert to gas instead; authority and Con Ed officials comment (M)

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — “In the chess game that we sometimes have to play here, we came out just where we wanted to.”

Ellen Schiff article on plays about Holocaust; they include Martin Sherman's Bent, The Diary of Anne Frank, Tales From Landshut, Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, Rene Kalisky's Jim the Temerarious, Martin Sperr's Hunting Scenes From Lower Bavaria, Throne of Straw and Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy; illus (L)

A HIGH‐STAKES battle over which of 10 companies ranging from communications giants to a partnership of local residents — will win the franchise to bring cable television into lower Fairfield County will go public starting tomorrow.

Article on growing number of Japanese modern dancers in American dance companies; notes that among best known are Yuriko Kimura of Martha Graham company and Christina Uchida of Twyla Tharp and Dancers; dancers Michihiko Oka and Eiko illus (L)