Genesis Of A Bleak Drama Of Pipe Dreams LOUIS SHEAFFER and \o7, Sheaffer is the author of "O'Neill: Son and Artist" and "O'Neill: Son and Playwright" (Little, Brown)
Tips to Homeowners Fontaine is president of the Western Regional Master Builders Assn. and a director of the American Building Contractors Assn. He will answer questions concerning home improvements. Phone 213/653-4084 or write him at 6404 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 850, Los Angeles 90048-5510
Pure and Simple : Small Moments Become Personal Bests RAY CONSIDINE, Ray Considine, a management sales consultant and author of "The Great Brain Robbery" (1979), has a tradition of sending out a New Year's card that's based on an idea he got from the book "Quintessence." The following is from this year's version.
VIEWPOINTS : Huge Deficits Won't Go Away Until Basic Changes Are Made in Budget JERRY L. JORDAN, Jerry L. Jordan is senior vice president and economist at First Interstate Bancorp. A former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, he is currently a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, which monitors the economic policies of the U.S. government
The Risk of World Suicide in an Age of Great Speed Norman Cousins, Norman Cousins, former editor of the Saturday Review, is currently adjunct professor in the School of Medicine, UCLA. His new book, "Albert Schweitzer's Mission," was published recently by W.W. Norton
How to Put Autocrats Out to Pasture CHARLES WOLF JR., Charles Wolf Jr. is director of the Rand Corp. research program in international economics and dean of Rand's graduate school.
President's Science Adviser: Loyal to a Fault? John Tirman, John Tirman is the senior editor at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a public - policy organization based in Cambridge, Mass