August 10, 1980

Lisbon offers travelers a bonus: three legendary vacation spots within easy reach, just beyond the city limits. A 35minute train trip will take visitors to Estoril, Portugal's internationally known watering place, and to its neighbor, Cascais, a fishing village that has managed to retain its charm despite the loss of youthful innocence.

NEW HAVEN AFTER a three-month period in which the American automobile industry recorded losses of $1.5 billion, Connecticut car-part manufacturers are feeling the effects. The Armstrong Rubber Company's July 16 announcement that early next year it would close its oldest tire plant, in West Haven, eliminating 600 jobs, is a example of state problems radiating from Detroit.

Telephone workers began a strike in New York State, although their union announced in Washington that a national pact had been reached.

About 1,000 Democrats, who tomorrow night will participate at Madison Square Garden in a fight over an open convention, gathered at Yankee Stadium last night to watch part of what has become a wide-open pennant race between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles.

SHIPLEY, England A STRONG-WILLED heiress, an ailing company, a traditionbound milltown: It's a setting that is supposed to happen only in the movies. But lately, real-life Hollywood has been intruding on the largest manufacturer of wool textiles in Britain.