1962Year Por Free Traders Ask Congress To Pass Kennedy's Tariff Bill

1988Year LEAD: On the historic Boston Post Road here is a piece of real estate that seems to embody all the qualities of this six-square-mile city: old, verdant, valuable and threatened. The Talk of Rye

1988Year LEAD: OFF a narrow two-lane road near Manchester's northwest boundary, a developer is building what he says will be its largest single residential complex. NORTHEAST NOTEBOOK: Manchester, N.H.

1994Year THE holy water set goes hip tomorrow morning, as a mutual fund outfit that specializes in virtuous investing announces a splashy new product to be run by an aggressive money manager. The Calvert Group, which runs 35 "socially conscious" mutual funds and where aggressive money managers had until now been shunned, has hired Cedd Moses to run its new Calvert Strategic Growth Fund. Mr. Moses manages $350 million of private investors' money out of his Los Angeles office. Wall Street

1940Year Krock on priorities question in defense orders In The Nation

1992Year Greeted several years ago with audible yawns and sneers, the Metropolitan Opera's newly designed "Ring" cycle seemed a timid, somewhat dowdy reaction to the boldly futuristic Wagner interpretations all around it. Literal in its re-enactment of Wagner's mid-19th-century world and conservative in its dismissal of metaphors for our time, the Met's "Ring" was a Brooks Brothers suit in a room full of Armani. Trends come and go, and two in particular have occupied us for the last 20 years. Operating in a kind of historical contrary motion, period instruments and updated opera have gone their opposite directions, one seeking truth by going backward in time, the other looking for it in the present. Review/Opera