Greenwich Ct

This tiny beach on Long Island Sound, a haven for America's wealthiest community, is not really much of a beach at all. It is a cramped half-moon of gritty sand set in a cove that stifles the waves. The shoreline is so small there is not room to do much more than lie down and be quiet. Which is about all they allow here anyway. No kite flying, no Wiffle ball, no loud radios.

This tiny beach on Long Island Sound, a haven for America's wealthiest community, is not really much of a beach at all. It is a cramped half-moon of gritty sand set in a cove that stifles the waves. The shoreline is so small there is not room to do much more than lie down and be quiet. Which is about all they allow here anyway. No kite flying, no Wiffle ball, no loud radios.

In one of the largest forays yet by a newspaper company into on-line services, Times Mirror Co. said Wednesday that it will make information from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and New York Newsday available over the Prodigy computer network starting next year. Using a home computer equipped with a modem, a subscriber paying a flat fee will gain access to news and other material from the newspapers. Prodigy subscribers will pay an additional fee to access local Times Mirror services.

Summer is three months away, and there still is time to apply for some of the least expensive vacations. But these eventually sell out down to the last bed. Now is the time for an immediate letter or phone call to consider the following classic and modestly priced camps, schools and resorts. * Audubon Weeks in Wyoming, Minnesota, Maine and Connecticut: The classic ecology vacation, at all-inclusive (lodging, meals, instruction, outings) prices that rarely exceed $700 or $800 per person.

A Los Angeles federal bankruptcy judge is expected to hear arguments today from attorneys for comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, on a motion to appoint a trustee to oversee $10 million in assets held by the Cosbys' ex-business manager. The Cosbys sued their longtime manager, Mary Waller, last fall for allegedly embezzling more than $8.

Executive recruiters and relocation specialists complain that clients from out of state often go into deep shock when they compare a $250,000 tract home in Laguna Niguel with their $90,000 manses in Peoria and Omaha. And home shoppers whose incomes haven't pierced the stratosphere often despair of finding anything at all in Orange County at a price they can afford. It is pretty tough to shop in the area's resale market without a ton of equity or a top corporate executive's salary.