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Nixon and wife travel by train from Washington to Phila to attend Phila Orch concert on its 70th anniv, 70th birthday of conductor Ormandy and 113th anniv of Acad of Music; Nixon presents Ormandy with Medal of Freedom; trip marks 1st time that Pres has traveled by train since '62
savers seen chief beneficiaries of increases; reactions of insts to changes discussed
NY Times survey on efforts of Fed, NYS, NYC and private orgn job training programs to train city's hard-core jobless for available jobs; high dropout rate from training programs seen major problem; Asst Comr Sirota calls for creation of single, unified manpower training system to replace unwieldy collection of programs; recent Bd of Educ study indicates many cos are reluctant to train disadvantaged; bd official L Cenci holds many slum youths will accept only certain jobs; Mobilization for Youth (MFY) Employment Div dir Altschuler holds training programs do not reach most disadvantaged youths; Coalition Jobs exec dir Kaufmann and Natl Urban League official A Holmes comment; illus
Fed officials and others in employment practice field cite Phila Plan as sign of breakthrough in Govt's efforts to open good-paying jobs for minorities through law and exec action; plan is being implemented with some success in its test city and has spurred negotiations for 'home town solutions' in cities across nation; Adm is extending plan's features, including goals for minority jobs, to virtually all work done under Fed contract; Equal Employment Opportunity Comm survey of referral unions says that those that supply quotas of workers for employer show nonwhite percentages in better-paying jobs even lower than expected; survey, based on repts from about 3,700 local unions in '67, says unions reptd 8.4% Negro membership but vast majority of these members were in lower-paying category; in mechanical trades only 0.8% of membership were Negroes; city-by-city breakdown shows that in some cities where Negro populations have been burgeoning, Negroes are barely represented in mechanical trades; other figures listed; table of comm's figures on Negro employment and union membership in '67
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 1970, covering January 25, 1970.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
The Rolling Stones
1970Stephen Chbosky, American author, screenwriter, and director[â ]
Stephen Chbosky is an American film director, screenwriter, and author. He is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), and writing and directing its 2012 film adaptation. He also directed drama Wonder (2017) and the 2021 film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen. His first psychological horror novel, Imaginary Friend, was published in October 2019.
1970Chris Mills, American basketball player[â ]
Christopher Lemonte Mills is an American former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1970Milt Stegall, American football player and sportscaster[â ]
Milton Eugene Stegall is a former professional gridiron football player who played 17 years of professional football, three years in the National Football League (NFL) with the Cincinnati Bengals and 14 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He is currently an analyst on the CFL on TSN studio panel.
1970Jane Bathori, French soprano (born 1877)[â ]
Jane Bathori was a French mezzo-soprano. She was famous on the operatic stage and important in the development of contemporary French music.
1970Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (born 1901)[â ]
Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. A co-creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises, he is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the history of cinema. Tsuburaya is known as the "Father of Tokusatsu", having pioneered Japan's special effects industry and introduced several technological developments in film productions. In a career spanning five decades, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 filmsâincluding globally renowned features directed by IshirĆ Honda, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Akira Kurosawaâand earned six Japan Technical Awards.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[â ]