March 19, 1980

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, March 18 Saudi Arabia has reportedly reached an agreement with neighboring Yemen under which the Yemenis will accept no more Soviet military advisers and will eventually remove the 100 now estimated to be there.

ALTHOUGH travelers to Italy have long marveled at the lusciously rich, soft white ripening cheeses of Tuscany, Lombardy and Piedmont, until recently those products made of sheep's, goat's and cow's milk were virtually unavailable in this country.

Dominic Miraglia owns a funeral chapel in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and at least once a day the front windows of the chapel begin to rattle, the big crystal chandelier in the reception room begins to shake and a wave of noise rolls over the building, sometimes drowning out the prayers and the grief of the mourners.

A late-afternoon rally led by international oil issues sent the stock market ahead yesterday with a brisk advance. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 12.97 points, to 801.62.

Marie M. Lambert of Surrogate's Court in Manhattan, who is under investigation for campaign irregularities, sought to have the administrator of the investigating commission fined or jailed for criminal contempt and the investigation halted, it was disclosed yesterday.

When Lloyd Mason retired in 1975, after 31 years with the General Telephone and Electronics Corporation, he left with a gold watch, a wooden plaque of praise and a ticket to a new life in retirement his first monthly pension check of $325.37.

As the first major testing ground in the industrial Middle West, Illinois was an important, perhaps decisive, prize for both President darter and Ronald Reagan yesterday, putting the two front-run- ...

A bill that would pass along increases in fuel oil costs to tenants in New York City's 400,000 rent-controlled apartments was sent back to committee yesterday by the City Council after it became doubtful that the measure could be approved.

Oil companies, whose revenues were swollen by price increases by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, dominate a list of the nation's 25 largest nonfinancial concerns in 1979 in terms of sales.

SAMUEL JOHNSON once wrote that nothing contrived by man produces so much happiness as "a good tavern or inn."