LEAD: A PROPOSAL to make it easier to strip negligent or incapable parents of their rights and free their children for adoption has been drafted in preparation for introduction in the Legislature.

REVISIONS IN ENDING PARENTAL RIGHTS SOUGHT

LEAD: He is slender, almost frail at 79 years of age, a soft-spoken Virgina gentleman whose friends worry about his health. His is not a household name.

JUSTICE POWELL SHAPING LAW AS SWING MAN ON HIGH COURT

LEAD: LAST Thanksgiving, Emma Swift was almost at her breaking point. For the second winter in a row, she had no money to fix her furnace, and the prospect of another season of bundling her children in front of the kitchen stove was more than she could face.

..AND 'UNBANKABLE' HOMEOWNERS GET HELP

LEAD: WHEN the State Legislature reconvenes tomorrow, it is expected to start discussion on a wide slate of environmental issues of concern to Long Island.

KEY ISSUES FOR L.I. TAKE SHAPE IN ALBANY

LEAD: The St. Louis Cardinals' 3-2 victory over the Mets yesterday was the 1,000th victory of Whitey Herzog's 14-year managerial career. Some of his Cardinal colleagues gave him a bottle of 1980 Dom Perignon champagne to celebrate.

HERZOG CELEBRATES AS METS FIZZLE OUT

LEAD: HARD hat in hand, a motorcycle messenger strode into the beehive-like Park Avenue office of Fidelity Investments earlier this month. He went directly to a multi-colored video display terminal, punched a few numbers into a keyboard, looked up at the screen and walked away smiling.

A FRENZY TO MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS

LEAD: THE northeast coast of Lake Michigan from the Grand Traverse Bay area to Little Traverse Bay - one of the Midwest's fastest-growing year-round resort regions - has been given a lift by the decision of the National Governors Association to hold its annual conference here July 26-28. The Governors will meet at the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme, northeast of Traverse City.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Traverse City, Mich.;
Boyne Country Sets the Pace

LEAD: THIS city has adopted its first zoning ordinance overhaul since 1945, and planners say they have borrowed ideas from around the country to shape a code suited for the diverse Midwest community of 350,000 residents.

FOCUS: OMAHA;
Creating Flexibility In Zoning

LEAD: THE Old South's way of life may be a thing of the past, but tax credits for rehabilitating historic property have helped restore many Louisiana plantations and create new enterprises in recent years. They have led to the conversion of most of the state's plantations into commercial ventures, offering tours and bed-and-breakfast accommodations.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: White Castle, La.;
Preservation Plus Profits

LEAD: Since enactment of New York City's landmark legislation in 1965, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has brought 51 historic districts, with 15,000 buildings, and 700 individual structures under the protection of the law. Considered by some owners the ultimate architectural distinction and by others a nuisance, designation has expanded to include street clocks and even magnolia trees.

'What Makes A Landmark?'

LEAD: EVERYONE earning more knows it, but it comes as a shock to those earning less: The New York investment bankers under 30 with staggering $600,000-a-year incomes are not rich and may never be.

FEELING POOR ON $600,000 A YEAR

LEAD: ALTHOUGH the film ''On the Waterfront'' is now part of motion picture lore, the background of my novel ''Waterfront'' is less familiar. This was no ''novelization,'' that bastard word for a bastard byproduct of Hollywood success. Reviewers, actually invoking Zola and Dreiser in their praise of the work, were surprised that after all the kudos the film had received, there was still so much more to say than a 90-minute movie - even one of the best of them - could possibly suggest.

'WATERFORNT' - 'MORE THAN A 90-MINUTE MOVIE'

LEAD: New York City is telling landlords to pay up.

POSTINGS: Regulation Fee;

LEAD: ALTHOUGH presented as a straightforward inventory of county-owned property, part of which might be suitable for affordable housing, the list circulated last week by County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke is being interpreted by some officials as an attempt to ease tensions between his administration and local governments.

O'ROURKE RELEASES LIST OF COUNTY LAND

LEAD: A HAYDN festival that will present music not only by Joseph Haydn, but also by his younger brother, Michael - and will include the first documented performance of a Michael Haydn work - will be offered this week by the music department at Rutgers University's Camden College of Arts and Sciences.

TWO HADYNS AND 2 EXPERTS IN CAMDEN

LEAD: Kevork Hovnanian, whose company had $300 million in sales last year, is the fourth-largest home builder in the nation and No. 1 in New Jersey. Now this residential developer is poised to make a big splash in the world of commercial real estate.

Hovnanian Branches Out

LEAD: The Presidential contenders all have image problems.

WITH TEARS AND REVELATION, '88 CONTENDERS SOFTEN IMAGES

LEAD: IN 1959 CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON, 13 years old, shammed his way into an adult movie theater in which the adult movie was Roger Vadim's adaptation of ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses,'' a bomb forgotten by nearly everyone who saw it except, of course, Christopher Hampton, for whom it became a sort of obsession.

A CASE SEDUCTION BY THE BROOK

LEAD: ''A WHEEL doesn't run as well if you pull out some of the spokes,'' Paul Stoutenburgh said. ''It's the same thing with birds. They're part of a system, made up of many parts, that creates a complete cycle of life.''

TO SAVE WATER BIRDS, THEY'LL COUNT THEM

LEAD: OPPONENTS of the death penalty had viewed McCleskey v. Kemp as their best hope since the Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions a decade ago. For Warren McCleskey of Georgia's death row, and in effect for hundreds of others, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund argued that the sentencing process was infected with racism and therefore unconstitutional.

COURT STANDS BEHIND THE DEATH PENALTY

LEAD: The President of El Salvador, alarmed about the new United States immigration law, has appealed to President Reagan to give temporary refuge to Salvadorans living illegally in this country.

DURATE APPEALS TO REAGAN TO LET SALVADORANS STAY

LEAD: JUDGING by the headlines, the Knicks' search for a new coach appears confined to Rick Pitino, the former Knick assistant coach who guided Providence to the Final Four last month. But according to Richard H. Evans, the new corporate commander at Madison Square Garden, the search has just begun both for a coach and, even more important, for the successor to Scotty

Knicks' Priority: The G.M.

LEAD: COMMERCIALS for ''Mediterranean villas'' fill Florida's airwaves and the state's roadways are littered with billboards announcing such events as the grand opening of the 19th phase of the 34th suburban-style project on the left.

FLORIDA MARKET: BALLYHOO AND BARGAINS

PROSPECTS

LEAD: IT was 10 years ago this week that the Westchester County Medical Center was dedicated, amid controversy about whether it was an unnecessary luxury that would forever drain county tax dollars.

A DECADE OF CHANGE FOR MEDICAL CENTER

Jorge Andújar Moreno, known as Coke, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer

Coke_(footballer)

Shankar–Jaikishan were an Indian composer duo of the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949 to 1971. They are widely considered to be one of the greatest music composers of the Hindi film industry.

Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (born 1922)

Shankar–Jaikishan

John Ernest Silkin was a British left-wing Labour politician and solicitor.

April 26, 1987

Headlines from April 26, 1987

REVISIONS IN ENDING PARENTAL RIGHTS SOUGHT

JUSTICE POWELL SHAPING LAW AS SWING MAN ON HIGH COURT

..AND 'UNBANKABLE' HOMEOWNERS GET HELP

KEY ISSUES FOR L.I. TAKE SHAPE IN ALBANY

HERZOG CELEBRATES AS METS FIZZLE OUT

Billboard 200

The Joshua Tree

Licensed To Ill

Slippery When Wet

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Graceland

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 26, 1987