October 28, 1980

A fire of suspicious origin swept the census office in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn early yesterday, destroying tens of thousands of documents. Officials at the Census Bureau headquarters in Maryland said the entire area of nearly a quarter million residents would have to be recounted.

Beverly Sills's final day as an operatic singer had been a varied, multisplendored and extravagant love feast attended by thousands. But just a little after midnight, she found herself alone on the stage of the New York State ...

SIBLING relationships, traditionally studied only among children and ado lescents, are potent forces in adulthood, too, as well as a resource with broad social importance for elderly Americans, recent studies show.

Genesco Inc., which has been steadily reducing its retailing operations, has announced that it plans to divest itself of its S.H. Kress variety store division, its 28 Roos-Atkins apparel stores in California and its Post drug stores in Houston.

UNTIL two years ago, Daniel Newman, chairman of the Education Committee of the State Assembly, was one of the most powerful figures in New Jersey education.