October 19, 1980

Four things should be considered when you choose a cabin on a cruise liner: size, location, amenities and price. Here are guidelines on these considerations:

I have never seen so many props in my life. I am thinking of several recent weeks of theatergoing and their accompanying barrage of bedquilts, chamber pots, rolled-up newspapers, nightsticks, stuck windows, bullhorns, coffins and doors, doors, doors. In each instance the trouble was that we were given so many things to chart as they flew through the air that we had no time left over to follow the plot.

WHEN Leon E. Bell of Hartford was convicted this summer of the $1,300 holdup of a Friendly's Ice Cream Shop in Rocky Hill on April 12 and the $380 holdup of a Burger King restaurant in West Hartford four days later, he might have expected to receive a sentence of 10 to 14 years in prison.

FOR more than 75 years, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have been the archetypical friendly enemies. They share a common Southern heritage, they were both created by pharmacists, and both were once heralded as cures for everything from headache to peptic ulcers. In ways large and small, the Coke-Pepsi rivalry was the soul of Southern gentility.

NEWARK "FIBER, METAL, CLAY," an exhibition now on view in the art gallery at the Paul Robeson Center at Rutgers University, not only celebrates the vitality of New Jersey crafts but also heralds a coming regional event.