Upcoming Events From the Herald Tribune

Among the upcoming events noted in the Sunday Herald Tribune.

• Representatives from 78 cargo contract and passenger charter airlines were meeting at an all-day session of the Institute of Air Transportation Inc. at the Waldorf Astoria.

• A photo in the newspaper showed an 1800 year old Roman sarcophagi being used to collect coins for the Metropolitan Museum's fund-raising campaign in celebration of the institution's jubilee. The museum sought to raise $7.5-million.

• The United Negro College Fund was launching its fund-raising drive at the Rainbow Room. A Chase Manhattan VP was campaign chairman.

• Nineteen Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn graduate students from India were guests of honor at a friendship luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria sponsored by gem merchants Robinson and Sverdlick of 610 Fifth Avenue. The purpose of the dinner was to focus attention on the educational programs of the Indian government as well as on the problems that the severe housing shortage created for foreign students.

• The Greater New York Fund hoped to raise $5.9-million to support 415 local hospitals through its drive beginning April 29.

• The theme of the annual convention of the Jewish War Veterans at the Hotel Astor was the problems of readjustment for returning service personnel.

• The New York University College of Medicine at 477 First Avenue was hosting a free exhibit of prints on medical subjects spanning five centuries.

• The third annual exhibition of "Art in Jewish Education" was at the Museum of Natural History. It was sponsored by the Jewish Educational Committee of New York and included paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other objects created by over 1,000 students from 60 Jewish schools and educational centers in New York. Among the special features was 50 paintings by "Palestinian" students from the New Bezalel Art School of Jerusalem. The exhibit ran through May 5.