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Postal strike in NYC causes major disruptions; banks face potentially dangerous delay of some $300-million a day in checks sent to them through PO boxes
Goldberg announces candidacy for Dem gubernatorial nomination; statement text; por
HR, 294-47, passes anticrime bill for Dist of Columbia, which includes provision to permit policemen to enter a premises without knocking to seize evidence that might otherwise be destroyed
HUD Dept submits comprehensive housing bill that would consolidate and simplify existing housing programs; in addition, ceilings on construction costs under FHA programs would be replaced with flexible formula designed to help areas of high costs; Romney, disclosing contents of proposed legis and new regulations, says that Cong has passed housing laws in such abundance and rapidity that there was little pub understanding of what they meant, news conf; says his dept is asking for authority to institute broad flexible programs such as reducing SO programs under FHA to 8 and putting all subsidized housing under 1 program; bill would also authorize Romney to limit amount of settlement costs and would establish new minimum down payment for Govt-backed mortgages at amount equal to settlement costs
Strike spreads into Middle West as carriers in Akron, Ohio and St Paul, Minn vote to join it; Buffalo and Newark POs closed as carriers voted to strike earlier; Natl Lr Carriers Assn pres J H Rademacher says 300 union leaders from all over country have been summoned to Washington, DC, to decide on whether to make it a natl stoppage; NYC mail embargo extended; stalled mail for NY illus in Los Angeles PO; pickets in Jersey City illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1970, covering March 20, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Doors
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1970Edoardo Ballerini, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Edoardo Ballerini is an American actor, narrator, writer, and film director. On screen he is best known for his work as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos and the hotheaded chef in the indie film Dinner Rush (2001). Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publishers Association's Best Male Narrator Audie Award (2013), Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter; 2019 Watchers by Dean Koontz) and is the co-author of the story "The Angel Of Rome" in the 2021 collection of stories The Angel of Rome, by Jess Walter. His directorial debut, Good Night Valentino, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
1970Josephine Medina, Filipino Paralympic table tennis player (died 2021)[†]
Josephine Rebeta Medina was a Filipino table tennis player. Medina represented the Philippines at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]