Daily News from New York, New York • 983

0 r-W DAILY" NEWS. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1979 5a ii mnric-ni-r- "Jll'J'''f' -sT 1--- JrrfS I -L -V 4 1 Newt photos by Bill Turnbull Vintage airplanes fill the floor at the Seventh Regiment Armory as guests wander around for a closer look. Airplanes have party people flying high poo Vintage airplanes were on display at the bash that Cartier, the Fifth Ave. jeweler, threw last night at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park but the jet-setters were the stars. Cartier was celebrating the 75th anniversary of flight and the famous Cartier watch.

Company president Ralph Destino assembled 15 old aircraft and a host of New York celebrities including Truman Capote, Dina Merrill and hubby, Cliff Robertson, Tammy Grimes, Sylvia Miles and Marion Javits and Lincoln Center's John Mazzola who couldn't resist the temptation to climb aboard. The planes will remain on exhibit for another week. See People on page 7 Building stones are strewn over downtown Mexico City after quake yesterday. becomes an enemy in FJlexho The earth, turnvd on the people of Mexico yesterday" as four earthquakes rumbled across the country, leveling buildings in Mexico City and wiping an entire village of 1,000 families "completely off the map," officials said. In the capital, quakes collapsed a three-story building at the city's Ibero-Americana University and dumped tons of building stones onto downtown streets.

At least two, including a girl, 14, were killed and about 50 persons were injured. But the major disaster-occurred near the epicenter of the first quake on the Pacific coast, where La Chaveta. a village of 1.000 families, was destroyed. The exact number of dead and I I Guodalatoro xv I injured was not immediately known. Extensive damage was also reported in Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla and the tourist resort of Acapulco.

The strongest quake measured a crackling 7.75 on the Richter scale. The most severe damage occurred in Mexico City, where hundreds of panicked American tourists left their hotel rooms-and huddled in lobbies or nearby parks. "We were on the ninth floor (of a hotel) when the building began swaying like mad," said Tom Nelson 41, of Indiana. "The first thing I did was go to the ground floor." News map by Bob Juffras Mi iihi.iiii a a hi i -Wfc VK 4- j- x-iur 4 tJB Jf I ii i ftMiir -B-iirrti- Marion avits gets lesson on Curtiss Pusher from pilot Bill Hammond. Lincoln Center's John Mazzola boards "Sopwith Snipe." AP phot AP photo Red Cross workers seek victims in the ruins of Ibereo-Americana University.

Autos in downtown parking lot are totaled by cascade of rubble..