June 22, 1992

At the school here that trains elite "Top Gun" pilots, the Navy has begun experimenting with a timely addition to its standard curriculum. Along with aviation and technical subjects, trainees are now being taught the same message about sexual harassment that is being posted on bulletin boards at bases all over the country: "Not in Our Navy." The Navy's name for the course that has already been tested on 35 future pilots and flight officers at the Pensacola Naval Air Station is "core values" education. If the experimental program, which began May 18 and ends July 1, wins the approval of top Navy officials in Washington, as expected, it will become a permanent and obligatory part of training for all 576,000 active duty personnel in the Navy, perhaps as soon as the end of 1992.

When Israelis vote on Tuesday, they will determine the shape of a new government to shepherd them through what may be some of the biggest changes in their history. Yet paradoxically, the final weekend of the parliamentary election campaign ended today with the politicians having discussed few of the dominant issues in any depth.

Flush with profits that have surpassed the best years of the booming 1980's, Wall Street is offering glimmers of hope for the battered economies of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but so far has failed to lift the region out of its recession. For those who work at investment banking firms, brokerage houses and elsewhere in the securities industry, 1992 has so far proven a romp. Despite the steep decline in stock values last week, trading volume, profits and paychecks in the industry, which the Government said reached an average of more than $83,000 last year, have all set records.

It is along toward 8 bells in the evening, and outside the Martin Beck Theater on West 45th Street a crowd is commencing to accumulate for a new showing of that old musical "Guys and Dolls," which is a very true rendering of stories by Mr. Damon Runyon, who mostly made them up. Now we are not putting the rap on revivals, and figuring weight for age, this particular show is real high class -- maybe eternal, even. But some things have changed since Sky Masterson, the highest roller of them all, first bet he could coax any doll to Havana, and ended up winning that soul-saving Mission Doll, Miss Sarah Brown. A Musical Fable So for those on this sidewalk as were not around when crooks were cute, when the show's top ticket price was not $65 but $6.60, when the Alda on Broadway was not Alan but his father, Robert, who played the original Sky, we offer a listener's guide to the shimmering slivers of lost New York in Frank Loesser's lyrics for this "musical fable of Broadway."

Enid J. Ford remembers taking her ailing daughter to the emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center several years ago as an exercise in angst. After six hours in the crowded waiting room, the only doctor on duty prescribed a medication for the girl's stomach pains without a full exam, she said. A hospital administrator called to hear her complaint was of little help. Frustrated, they went in search of a private doctor.