December 21, 1980

FOR the first time in the history of New York State, a suburban county, Nassau, registered the largest vote in statewide elections, passing two longtime champions--Brooklyn and Queens.

IN a surprise move, the Westchester Regional Theater and the Main Street Theater of White Plains, the county's only Actors Equity production companies, are discussing plans to merge, possibly as early as February, their boards of directors have announced.

With days running out on the Carter Administration, Government officials in the metropolitan area are racing to wrap up the paperwork on a variety of federally assisted housing and community-development construction projects.

I cannot say how much of my life I spent listening to phonographs, but the most unforgettable of these many hours came on Christmas Eve just 40 years ago. I was then in my late teens and, being racially obnoxious to Hitler's government, I had become a fugitive and outlaw and had to be hidden.

HARTFORD IN the midst of the seasonal cacophony outside the stores at the junction of Church and Main Streets, Christ Church Cathedral stands steadfast and serene, a monument to the immutability of certain time-tested beliefs and practices. Paradoxically, it is in this most traditional of institutions, rather than in the more contemporary surroundings, that one finds perhaps the most dramatic result of a decade of feminism.