August 13, 1986

A review of the film ''Maximum Overdrive,'' in Weekend on July 25, misidentified the actor playing ''the noble blond boy.'' He is Holter Graham.

Markets Late buying gave the stock market a hefty gain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 24.33 points, to 1,835.49, giving it a 52.87-point rise in the first two sessions this week. A strong auto sector and institutional buying programs were given credit for the advance. Volume was up to 131.7 million shares, from 125.6 million Monday. Gainers outnumbered losing issues on the Big Board by 1,171 to 484. [ Page D1. ] Wholesale gasoline prices have risen sharply, and retail increases of as much as several cents a gallon are expected soon, industry sources said. [ D1. ] Oil futures prices rose moderately as confidence grew that the OPEC agreement may work and on news of an Iraqi attack on Iranian oil facilities. [ D15. ]

A student at New York City Technical College went on a rampage through the downtown Brooklyn campus yesterday afternoon, shooting five people, one of them fatally, and exchanging gunfire with police officers before giving up, the police reported. Carrying two handguns, the suspect - 29-year-old Van Hull of Brooklyn -first killed a college employee in a laboratory in one building, the police said, then ran to the school's financial aid office in a second building, where he shot three more people. After firing shots at officers behind the second building, he raced into a third building, where he shot a college security officer, according to the police. Cornered on a stairwell in the third building, he exchanged fire with the police. But after 15 minutes of negotiations - during which, the police said, Mr. Hull was mumbling incoherently - he threw down the guns, one of them an automatic, and surrendered to a transit police officer.

A House subcommittee said today that Michael K. Deaver, the former deputy White House chief of staff, lied in sworn testimony this spring, and it asked an independent counsel to investigate the possibility of perjury charges. The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations voted 17 to 0 to adopt a staff report concluding that Mr. Deaver, who is a close friend of President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, ''knowingly and willfully'' made false statements in testimony before the panel May 16. The subcommittee was looking into allegations that Mr. Deaver, now a lobbyist, used his former Government service and his friendship with the President to benefit his clients. The court-appointed independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour Jr., is already investigating whether Mr. Deaver's lobbying activities violated ethics laws that restrict contact between former top officials and the agencies they worked for. Evidence Is Forwarded Mr. Deaver ''may have violated Federal criminal statutes relating to perjury, false statements and obstruction of a Congressional investigation,'' the panel said in a cover memorandum.

THEY began in restaurants 20 years ago as serve-yourself affairs amounting to a few raw vegetables and a couple of chopped-up fruits with your choice of dressings and a piece of bread on the side. Today, they have blossomed into the deluxe salad bars found in supermarkets and greengrocers. Few neighborhoods are without them and their assortments of almost every imaginable hot and cold salad, along with a few that are hard to imagine and even harder to call salads. Lettuce, tomatoes and sweet-and-sour beans have been joined by six or seven pasta dishes; marinated tofu; sushi; sticks of cheese; potato, tuna and egg salads, and yesterday's vegetables in an oil-and-vinegar dressing, plus Jell-O, rice pudding, bread pudding, carrot and zucchini cakes and - new to the scene - hot dishes. Some salad bars offer as many as 100 items in a successful bid to attract meat-and-potatoes types along with ''rabbit food'' fans. This cafeteria-style concept did not take off until the salad bar was pre-empted by the tiny fruit and vegetable markets that dot New York's cityscape. Salad bars have now grown so big that they are threatening to take over the markets that spawned them.

Late buying sent stock prices soaring again yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average climbing 24.33 points, to 1,835.49. That was its best level of the day and marked a gain of 52.87 points for the first two days of the week. On the New York Stock Exchange, where the turnover rose to 131.7 million shares, from 125.6 million shares on Monday, the 1,500-issue Big Board composite index jumped 1.57 points, to 140.02. Gains there exceeded losses by 1,171 to 484. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index climbed 2.66 points, to 243.34.

The world's largest producer of industrial gases, L'Air Liquide S.A. of France, has agreed to acquire Big Three Industries, an industrial gas producer in the Southwest, for $1.05 billion, the companies said today. Analysts said the cash offer, at $29 a share, was slightly lower than what many institutions that own Big Three shares had anticipated when trading was suspended as rumors of an imminent takeover announcement spread this morning. The stock traded as high as $32.25 on the New York Stock Exchange shortly after noon but then fell to close at $28.625, up $4.50, after the announcement of L'Air Liquide's bid. Eugene Melnichenko, an analyst with Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc., in Dallas, said some of the institutions, which collectively control about 55 percent of Big Three's stock, might wait to see whether a higher price comes along. ''The market was hoping for something between $30 and $32,'' he said.

President Reagan tonight expressed support for a meeting of Western nations with South Africa to seek to resolve the crisis there. President P. W. Botha of South Africa also said in a speech today that it was still possible to negotiate his Government's differences with West Germany, France, Britain and the United States. [ Page A5. ] At the same time, Mr. Reagan reiterated that he strongly opposed economic sanctions against South Africa, and asserted that numerous black leaders there agreed with him.

Wholesale gasoline prices have jumped in the week since OPEC agreed to curb production, and retail prices should quickly follow, probably with rises of a few cents a gallon, gasoline industry consultants and analysts said yesterday. Motorists ''should definitely see a pass-through of the higher prices; it should be happening right now,'' said Jan C. Lundberg, president of Lundberg Survey Inc. of North Hollywood, Calif., which studies gasoline prices. Mr. Lundberg said that prices from refiners to gasoline stations increased on average as much as 7 cents a gallon in the seven-day period that ended last Friday. But in some regions, prices have gone up by as much as 14 cents a gallon, he added.

It's 8 in the morning and already hot enough to fry spit. Even the fleas on the dogs are taking the day off. But here come Jack and Gloria Amerman on their daily morning walk around the second level of the cool, darkened Town and Country Center. They stride briskly by the Florsheim window, zip past Tennis Lady, a sharp right turn at Marshall Field's, a U-turn at Neiman-Marcus and then into the long stretch past Sunglass Hut, Custom Shop, Corrigan's Jewelers, B. Dalton Bookseller, a left at Joske's, another U-turn at J. C. Penney and into the home stretch. It's half a mile from Florsheim to Florsheim.

An internal audit of Veterans Administration hospitals found ''preventable'' medical errors in the cases of a large number of patients who died after heart surgery, a House subcommittee disclosed at a hearing today. In the recent audit of cardiac care units at 21 Veterans Administration hospitals with higher than average mortality rates, inspectors studied the cases of 134 patients who died after surgery. 'Classified as Preventble' They found that more than half the incidents that apparently caused the deaths were ''classified as being preventable'' errors, according to a report by the Veterans Administration's Inspector General's Office, which was discussed at the hearing. ''That's a lot of patients who might have survived surgery if these errors had not been made,'' said Representative Ted Weiss, the Manhattan Democrat who is chairman of the Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee, which held the hearing.

The Food Notes column in The Living Section last Wednesday gave an incorrect price for The Wine Spectator's 1986 ''California Wine Maps Guide.'' It costs $3.95 plus $1.25 postage.