August 29, 1988

LEAD: Facing political fire for his plan to meet with Mayor Koch, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that the Mayor was just one of many New Yorkers he would see during a visit this week, including the representatives of Tawana Brawley.

LEAD: Barbara Grumley still gets mad when she thinks about it.

LEAD: Seen from afar, the Atlantic City skyline has the bulk and reach of a metropolis. But these impressive structures are casinos. Ten years after legalized gambling came to this faded resort, the skyline is a facade: the city behind the Boardwalk remains a slum.

LEAD: THE guests had eaten dinner, and without any prodding from her father, Steffi Graf helped clear the table as she would if she were home in Bruehl, West Germany, returning with placesettings for coffee and dessert. It was a reminder that the best tennis player in the world is still just a teen-ager, one who plays pinball, becomes animated when talking about books she has read and enjoys the privacy of her room, where she likes to dim the lights, turn up the stereo and dance the night away.

LEAD: Employees at the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation like to make a simple boast: in the non-Communist world, one cannot fly in an airplane or ride in a car that has not been analyzed by their computer software program known as MSC/Nastran.