WASHINGTON ONE of the last pieces of the energy program proposed by President Carter a year ago fell into place last week when Congress approved his Synthetic Fuels Corporation  bill. But another piece fell out of place when the House rejected the proposed Energy Mobilization Board, a crucial element in the President's program to make the United States less dependent on foreign energy sources.  

Alternate Currents; U.S. Energy Track Is Uphill All the Way One Question, Many Answers Realism Tempers Optimism 

As the new 60-cent fare went into effect yesterday and the first new tokens in 10 years were put into use in New York City, thousands of passengers besieged undermanned subway token booths in what Transit Authority officials said they hoped was not a prelude to a chaotic Monday rush hour.  

Thousands Line Up at Undermanned Subway Booths to Buy New Tokens; Railroads Also Raising Fares Other Cities' Fares to Rise, Too 

IT is a warm, sun-drenched afternoon in Manhattan, but the author of "The Moviegoer" is lying on his bed in a dark hotel  room watching "Dial M for Murder." Like his character Binx Boiling, a troubled film enthusiast whose favorite moments happened ...  

A Portrait; of Mr. Percy Percy 

SPORTS

Carnegie Hall, at 90, Is Thinking Young; MUSIC VIEW Carnegie Hall, Approaching 90, Is Thinking Young 

PHILADELPHIA, June 28--Having broken Steve Carlton's eight-game winning streak, the New York Mets turned to life's simpler challenges tonight and swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phillies.  

Mets Sweep Phillies, 2-1 and 5-4; Burris Goes Nine Innings Mix-Up Helps Mets Mets Sweep Phillies By 2-1 in 11th, and 5-4 Balk Called on Ruthven Reds 8, Astros 5 Rangers 11, Twins 3 Mets Box Scores 

CHICAGO AN incinerator built here in 1970 by the proposed developer of a similar facility in Peekskill has worked well and met  pollution standards over the decade, according to its operators, and a group of Westchester County Board of Legislators who toured the facility here last week appeared to agree.  

Legislators Praise Chicago Incinerator; Legislators Praise Incinerator 

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MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 28--After only four minutes, the release of radioactive gas from the damaged Three Mile Island nuclear reactor had to be suspended today.  

GAS RELEASE HALTED AT NUCLEAR PLANT; Three Mile Island 'Glitch' Causes an Apparently False Alarm Storm Stops Second Test Venting of Radioactive Gas at 3-Mile Island Is Halted 'A 50-50 Chance' 

A YEAR after the merger of Westchester County's two law-enforcement agencies, the Parkway Police and the  Sheriff's Office, the county is enmeshed in attempts to resolve problems created by the consolidation.  

Police Merger Still Not At End; Police Merger Still Unresolved 

When Mervin Field began the California Poll, he kept the bill collectors away by getting a night job at a gas station.  

The Business Of the Pollsters; The Pollsters: Mixing Politics and Business 

WIMBLEDON, England, June 28-- Wimbledon's appetizing treats saw five seeded men beaten today, while Martina Navratilova, Tracy Austin, Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Virginia Wade reached the round of 16 after three-set scares.  

3d-Round Upsets Rock Wimbledon; Borg, Connors Win; 5 Seeded Players Fall Chances for Miss Harford A Challenge for Borg Miss Castillo Advances In Public Links Tourney

WE seem to be approaching another fin de siecle. Literature often dwindles into entertain  ment or else swells and twists itself into esthetic convolutions. Religion and, for some, the ouija board are back in style. People talk about haute cui- sine, tight money and the decorative arts; sexual and celebrity gossip runs like Brie.  

In Praise of V.S. Pritchett; Pritchett 

MIAMI BEACH, June 28--The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, begins its 71st convention here Monday at a time when large numbers of blacks perceive themselves as leaderless.  

Blacks Assailing Leaders as the N.A.A.C.P. Gathers; Blacks Assailing Their Leaders as the N.A.A.C.P. Gathers 'For the Masses' Looking to the Local Level Fixing Blame for Unemployment 

MIAMI, June 28--At the Orange Bowl, workers are preparing the proclaimed "Football Capital of the World" for its opening preseason game Aug. 10. Sergio Arandia, a painter by trade, can watch their labors from the cot under the ramps at Gate 14. For more than a week, he and about 800 other Cuban refugees have been living at "La Orange," as they call it, for lack of anywhere else to live except in the streets.  

Refugees in Miami Are Straining The City's Ability to Help Them; Refugees Are Overwhelming Miami's Ability to Help 6,000 New Households Seven-Year Wait for Housing Difficult to Desperate 'This Is Hopeless' Loose on the Street Prepared to Sacrifice Dangers in Delays 

FILM VIEW; When Musical Movies Are On Key--and Off FILM VIEW Musical Movies On and Off-Key 

The Alaskan wilderness had long been in my dreams. In my childhood it had seemed remote and romantic; in recent years it had become an important goal as I became actively and ardently involved in conservation groups. Add to this the months of letter-writing and telephone calls that preceded the actual departure--packaged tours seemed both tame and superficial--and you ...  

Answering the Call of the Wild in Southwestern Alaska; Answering the Call of the Wild in Southwestern Alaska If You Go... 

JERSEY CITY GRIGORY GUREVICH spoke animatedly of the community arts festival that he and his neighbors were planning, of the artists they would invite and of how the festival would enhance life in this city.  

Emigres Enliven Jersey City; Russian Emigres Enliven Jersey City 

FOURTH OF JULY fireworks will light up the Westchester sky over Long Island Sound, the Hudson River, high school  fields and municipal parks this weekend. The displays at Playland, Tarrytown and Mount Pleasant promise to be among the more spectacular programs in a long list of special holiday activities.  

WESTCHESTER GUIDE; WESTCHESTER GUIDE COUNTRY FAIR TIME BIG BAND REVIVAL PROTECTING THE GARDEN 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 28 --The two-day Vietnamese incursion into Thailand this week has halted an international relief effort that has supplied food for 1 million to 1.5 million people in famine-stricken Cambodia.  

Thai-Cambodian Frontier Fighting Disrupts Food Relief Effort by U.N.; Muskie, Ending Southeast Asia Meeting, Cautions Against Famine Peril More Active U.N. Role Urged Two Views of the Program Thai-Cambodian Fighting Disrupts Relief Program 

MAJOR new rehabilitation program is under way at the Ossining Correctional Facility, not for inmates but for a building. The marble walls of Building 17, the original prison, echo to the sound of hammering and  drilling. Where tiers of cells once stood, rows of workbenches and machines are being put in place.  

Ossining to Become an Industrial Facility; Ossining Prison Is Readied for Industry

HARTFORD SOME families have kept furni  ure handed down generation after generation out of common sense and frugality. Others ...  

ANTIQUES Colonial Artistry on Storage Chests

All our Russian friends in Moscow--dissidents, ordinary people and officials alike--looked at my wife, Heidi, and me as if we had gone out of our minds when we told them we were taking our two small children--Alexandra, 5, and Stefan, 3--with us on a two-week ...  

Taking the Kids On a China Tour; Taking the Kids on a China Tour: Pleasures and Problems 

IT'S a hectic season in London for literary sorts: Spring prizes, spring book reviews, spring grant applications, not to mention spring income tax  returns, all with the proper accompaniment of angst or applause. Those lucky enough arise and go now to their thatched cottage in Suffolk, their slate farmhouse in Radnorshire or their wattle croft in Connemara, and dig in with the typewriter and the nine bean...  

LONDON LITERARY LETTER; A Prize Season London 

BABYLON AN abortion facility here that  says it has been harassed by Babylon Town because of complaints made by antiabor  tion activists has sought a permanent injunction against the municipality in a civil rights suit filed recently in United States District Court in Westbury.  

Abortion Facility Challenges Babylon; Abortion Facility Challenges Babylon 

Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano and performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre, and hymns.

Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano and actress

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Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Education and was also director of the Peruvian National Library.

June 29, 1980

Headlines from June 29, 1980

Alternate Currents; U.S. Energy Track Is Uphill All the Way One Question, Many Answers Realism Tempers Optimism

Thousands Line Up at Undermanned Subway Booths to Buy New Tokens; Railroads Also Raising Fares Other Cities' Fares to Rise, Too

A Portrait; of Mr. Percy Percy

SPORTS

Carnegie Hall, at 90, Is Thinking Young; MUSIC VIEW Carnegie Hall, Approaching 90, Is Thinking Young

Billboard 200

Glass Houses

Just One Night

McCartney II

Against The Wind

Mouth To Mouth

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

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