LEAD: THREE years ago, when Montgomery-Washington Tower opened at the edge of the San Francisco Financial District, sales of the 45 residential condominiums perched above 20 floors of offices were slow. It took several months to make the first sale and nearly four years to sell out.

Focus: Mixed Uses;
At Home High Atop The Office

LEAD: The end of the players' strike against the National Football League owners Thursday began a new phase of the labor dispute, one in which the pressures may intensify and the perception of management as the winner may change.

PLAYERS MAY BE DOWN, BUT THEY'RE NOT OUT

LEAD: The United States remains deeply committed to the explosive testing of nuclear weapons despite its recent agreement with the Soviet Union on a long-range goal of banning such tests, Government scientists and officials say.

U.S. IS COMMITTED TO NUCLEAR TESTS

LEAD: VAUGHN PAUL and Duncan Soldner, two smalltime mushroom farmers, thought they had hit pay dirt when some bankers from Citicorp Industrial Credit wanted to help them do a leveraged buyout of Mushroom King Inc., the country's second-largest mushroom farm.

WHEN A LEVERAGED BUYOUT FAILS

PROSPECTS

LEAD: Whitey Herzog, managing in his third World Series in the past six years, received his answer early tonight.

HERZOG'S DOUBT PROVES PROPHETIC

LEAD: For years, the hilly, rocky topography of a four-acre site on Edsall Boulevard in Palisades Park, N.J., scared off developers. But the tremendous housing appreciation in that area, right on the Fort Lee border, has made even this prickly property enticing. Bluestone is now being blasted and retaining walls erected in preparation for 92 town-house condominiums, to be called Windsor

POSTINGS: Working a Tough Site; Right Climate

LEAD: IN MOST ways, 12-year-old Billy is like any suburban child. He likes to play and watch sports, collect and trade baseball cards and ride his bike.

WHEN PLAYING WITH FIRE BECOMES A 'CRY FOR HELP'

LEAD: A DECADE ago, a group of retailers spent $4.5 million to convert a declining downtown Main Street shopping strip into a six-block outdoor walkway lined with kiosks, planters and fountains. From this traffic-free strip, called Metrocentre Mall, shoppers entered storefronts.

NOTEBOOK: LITTLE ROCK, ARK.;
The New Look Of Main Street

LEAD: A smoky fire in a cable vault beneath Rockefeller Center forced the evacuation of the RCA Building early last night, knocking WNBC-TV off the air for more than 10 minutes and forcing the Washington Bureau of ''NBC Nightly News'' to prepare an impromptu edition of the program.

A Fire Empties the RCA Building And Forces Channel 4 Off the Air

LEAD: BACK IN 1985, WHEN THE DE-sign for the skyscraper that has been proposed to replace the Coliseum at Columbus Circle was announced, the project, called Columbus Center, seemed certain to be built. It did not matter that Columbus Center was too big by half and was a ghastly piece of architecture to boot.

Square Deal for Columbus Circle?

LEAD: STAYING home rather than fleeing during a nuclear plant accident could result in fewer deaths and injuries to people living near a plant during a major accident, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission committee has suggested.

WEDGES SOUGHT FOR OPENING OF SHOREHAM

LEAD: BARRETT N. SINOWITZ, a studious-looking, barrel-chested stockbroker in the Prudential-Bache Securities office near Grand Central Terminal, was trying to reassure a client about his drug-stock holdings, which had plunged more than 20 percent in the market's two-week blood bath.

Looking for a Silver Lining

LEAD: GEORGE P. SHULTZ flew into Israel last week to find the Middle East in a quite different mood from his last visit to the region two years ago.

A Long Fuse Burns Slowly on Israel's Borders

LEAD: THE greatest menace while I was growing up came from abroad, from the Germans and the Japanese, our enemies because we were American. I still remember my terror as a 9-year-old when, running in from playing on the street after school, I saw the banner headline ''Corregidor Falls'' on the evening paper in our doorway and understood that the United States actually could lose the war it had entered only months before.

My Life as a Boy

LEAD: The Rent Stabilization Association - the major trade group for New York City landlords - is sponsoring a series of seminars meant to help building owners, property managers and co-op and condo boards comprehend the city's tangle of housing rules and regulations.

POSTINGS: R.S.A. Seminars; The Rights Of Owners

LEAD: Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, whose 13 years as Director General of Unesco have split the organization, announced tonight that he wanted to withdraw from his race for re-election.

Unesco Director Withdraws Bid For Re-election

LEAD: In an abrupt shift from its policy of the last eight months, the United States is allowing the dollar to decline against the West German mark, a senior Administration official said today.

U.S SAID TO ALLOW DECLINE OF DOLLAR AGAINST THE MARK

LEAD: Nancy Reagan's cancerous left breast was removed today in a 50-minute operation without complications, the White House said.

SURGEONS REMOVE CANCEROUS BREAST OF NANCY REAGAN

LEAD: WHEN General Electric made known its plans a few years ago to cut back its manufacturing operations in its birthplace, Schenectady, N.Y., the economic future looked pretty dim for the town that once billed itself as ''the city that lights up the world.''

The Clouds Burn Off in Schenectady

LEAD:  VEIL  The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987. By Bob Woodward. Illustrated. 543 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $21.95.

MIGHTY CASEY

LEAD: DESPITE opposition, the National Park Service is going ahead with a plan to make changes at the 70,000-acre Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

PARK PLAN MOVES AHEAD DESPITE OPPOSITION

LEAD: In the assessment of Benjamin B. Braunstein, the special kinds of shops, galleries and eateries that have come to define SoHo are missing on West Broadway below Broome Street. And for no good reason.

POSTINGS: SoHo Shopping; Moving South

LEAD: THERE is a certain spot, high on the grounds of the county's newly acquired Lasdon Park in Somers, where the view extends for more than 30 miles, sweeping across the dense woods and clear lakes of upper Westchester, then tapering off into the gracefully sloping hills of neighboring Connecticut.

Forged In War, Etched In Memory

LEAD: IN September 1984, three weeks after members of the class of 1988 arrived for their freshman year at Yale University, they watched as striking employees set up picket lines that would surround campus buildings for 10 weeks.

YALE STUDENT GROUP SAYS THAT IN STRIKE, THEY'RE THE VICTIMS

Zachary David Alexander Efron is an American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008). During this time, he also starred in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and the comedy film 17 Again (2009).

Zac Efron, American actor and singer

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Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model

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Adriaan Ditvoorst was a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1984. His 1967 film Paranoia was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

October 18, 1987

Headlines from October 18, 1987

Focus: Mixed Uses; At Home High Atop The Office

PLAYERS MAY BE DOWN, BUT THEY'RE NOT OUT

U.S. IS COMMITTED TO NUCLEAR TESTS

WHEN A LEVERAGED BUYOUT FAILS

PROSPECTS

Billboard 200

Bad

Whitesnake

Whitney

Hysteria

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 18, 1987