PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 -- Unbeaten Columbia, breezing to a ninth victory, displayed its most explosive attack of the season tonight after receiving some help from Cornell in averting a possible racial crisis.  

COLUMBIA QUINTET TRIUMPHS, 101-78; Villanova, Cornell, La Salle Gain in Quaker City Play

WHEN AMERICA toasts the start of a new year next Wednesday night, the most joyous celebrants are likely to be the nation's investors and Wall Street's financial community.  

1969 Will Get Wall St. Toast Only For Dying; The Week in Finance:

Wildlife Soc exec dir Dr Evenden repts sighting only 9 varieties of birds on White House grounds in 1st official census of birds there and 1st count since '08; illus; he repts more than half of birds were starlings; count by Pres Roosevelt in '08 recalled

Fewer Birds Visiting White House; BIRD TALLY MADE AT WHITE HOUSE

JERUSALEM, Dec. 27 -- Last night's first combined air and land commando raid by Israeli units was assessed today as a major success with the demolition of an Egyptian naval post and the capture of four prisoners.  

ISRAEL HAILS RAID AS MAJOR SUCCESS; Air-Land Commando Foray Acknowledged by Cairo

JERUSALEM -- The Israelis knew something was up when news programs began announcing that Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin were being called home for an emergency Cabinet meeting. The reason: a new American peace plan.  

Mideast 2: Israel Sees Her Security Threatened

Repub and Bethlehem plants in Buffalo have hired about 100 women steelworkers, first in US since World War II, because of extreme labor shortage in Buffalo area; illus; women perform all tasks in integrated mills but are not permitted to work at blast and open-hearth furnaces and blooming mills; initial resentment of male workers wanes

Women in Steel: First in a Generation; Buffalo's Women Steelworkers First in U.S. in a Generation

TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 28 -- Buoyed by the American promise to return Okinawa in 1972, Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal-Democratic party swept to a resounding victory in yesterday's election for the House of Representatives.

Premier's Party Is Victor In Japan by Wide Margin; PREMIER'S PARTY VICTOR IN JAPAN

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Article on new electronic quote system, expected to become operational late in '70; system, called Nasdaq (Natl Assn of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations), described; diagram; computers for system being installed by Bunker-Ramo Corp in Trumbull, Conn

Automated Unlisted Quotes Near; Automated Over-Counter Quotes Near

NYC gets more snow; Sanitation Dept repts all but 2% of city's sts and hwys are partly opened; Lindsay repts cleanup will continue over weekend

New Snow and High Winds Hamper Cleanup Here; New Snow and Winds Slow Cleanup

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 27 -- On the second anniversary of Red Holzman's appointment as coach of the New York Knickerbockers, his National Basketball Association Eastern Division leaders opposed the Seattle Supersonics tonight at the Pacific Coliseum.  

Knicks Turn Back Sonics, 119 to 117; KNICKS SET BACK SONICS BY 119-117

RABAT, Morocco -- "How can one speak publicly with moderation when the Arab people are boiling with anger? The whole Arab world is emotionally ready to follow the extremists."  

Mideast 3: Arab Attempt At Unity Collapses

Noel's Fascinated by Noel; Noel Admits It: He's Fascinated by Noel

Nikita S. Khrushchev turns out to have been as bad an economic prophet as those security analysts who predicted a year ago that the Dow-Jones industrials would exceed 1,000 in 1969.  

Economy of Soviet Fails Its Prophet; Soviet Economy Is Short Of Khrushchev Forecast

AL CARMINES, the hip, song-writing associate minister of Washington Square's Judson Church, is going the way of all flesh -- an observation he would amend to read "and spirit." Having composed the music for such Off Broadway successes as "In Circles," "Peace" and the current "Promenade," he now has been enticed into writing for Broadway.  

' W.C.' to Sing A.C. Tunes; ' W.C.' to Sing A.C. Tunes

The Ten Best of 1969; Movies

A streamlined version of Mayor Lindsay's campaign-time Fusion Advisory Council was approved yesterday by the Mayor to function during his second administration.  

LINDSAY SETS UP NEW FUSION BODY; Aurelio to Head 17-Member Executive Committee That Will Meet Monthly

US troops surprise about 250 N Vietnamese soldiers near Cambodian border and kill 79 of them in fiercest battle in 6 wks; 1 Amer killed, 1 wounded; details on battle; other action reptd; US command releases account of what it calls successful defense of Buprang and Duclap camps against enemy attacks between Oct 28 and Dec 15; illus; map

U.S. UNITS REPORT KILLING 79 OF FOE IN JUNGLE BATTLE; Six-Hour Fight Just 2 Miles From Cambodia Termed Fiercest in 6 Weeks

MIAMI, Dec. 27 -- A horse-player never knows for certain how a horse will handle a distance of ground until he tries it once. In today's $23,300 Miami Beach Handicap at Tropical Park, at a mile and a sixteenth, the players had to make a choice between Battleamal and Dust Commander, a pair of 2-year-olds who had never had gone beyond six furlongs.  

DUST COMMANDER FIRST AT TROPICAL; Beats Merry Perry by Five Lengths and Pays $9.40

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 27 -- The 25th annual Gator Bowl football game was, to everyone's surprise, dominated by defenses as Florida's holding unit had the edge when it counted most to lead the Gators to a 14-13 upset of Tennessee, the Southeastern Conference champion, today.  

FLORIDA CAPTURES GATOR BOWL, 14-13; Crowd of 72,248, a Record, Sees Upset of Tennessee

In a first round that produced only one close game out of four but appropriately eye-catching performances by Bob Lanier and Rick Mount, the two all-America visitors, Purdue, Pennsylvania, St. Bonaventure and St. Joseph's moved into the semifinals of the 18th Eastern College Athletic Conference Holiday Basketball Festival yesterday.  

St. Bonaventure, Penn, St. Joseph's Victors Here; Purdue, Penn, St. Bonaventure And St. Joseph's Win in Garden

THE new occasion at the Mark Hellinger purports to be about a dress designer named Chanel -- Coco to intimates -- but it is nothing of the sort. It is, as an evening, plainly and simply about a phenomenon called Katharine Hepburn. Not that the events dramatized, or undramatized if you want to know the truth, have anything to do with Miss Hepburn's past history.  

' Coco': About Coco -- or Kate?; ' Coco': About Coco -- or Kate?

L Simpson comments on poets and poetry of '60s; discusses poetry of A Ginsberg, G Oppen, D Levertov, LeR Jones, R Duncan, J Harrison, R Bly, D Wakoski, R McKuen, B Knott (Saint-Geraud), W C Williams, E Pound among others

Poetry in the Sixties -- Long Live Blake! Down With Donne!; Poetry In the Sixties

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

December 28, 1969

Headlines from December 28, 1969

COLUMBIA QUINTET TRIUMPHS, 101-78; Villanova, Cornell, La Salle Gain in Quaker City Play

1969 Will Get Wall St. Toast Only For Dying; The Week in Finance:

Fewer Birds Visiting White House; BIRD TALLY MADE AT WHITE HOUSE

ISRAEL HAILS RAID AS MAJOR SUCCESS; Air-Land Commando Foray Acknowledged by Cairo

Mideast 2: Israel Sees Her Security Threatened

Billboard 200

Led Zeppelin II

Abbey Road

Let It Bleed

Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas

Willy And The Poor Boys

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 28, 1969