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Offering compromise plan to reform postal system and provide more pay and bargaining rights for postal workers
coalition of 52 Dems and 52 Repubs calls for creation of special HR com to consider possible impeachment of Douglas; Celler moves swiftly to have his Judiciary Com consider Jacobs's impeachment resolution; says charges leveled against Douglas 'warrant sober and searching and nonpartisan scrutiny'; signers of resolution identified; ex-Justice Fortas lauds Douglas as genius in law, s, Washington
FAA had its med officers, including staff psychiatrist, investigate Bailey's tactics, motives and background as guide for Admr Shaffer in dealing with work stoppage by Professional Air Traffic Controllers Orgn headed by Bailey; findings, which concluded he was motivated by need 'to destroy authority' and characterized him as headhunter, detailed; Bailey redicules drs' investigative standards and conclusions
Rockefeller, Duryea and Bridges rept reaching agreement on tax pkg, which will include increased tax on commercial rents above $4,000, hotel occupancy tax and state collection of city income tax; Lindsay hails pkg, news conf, lauds Rockefeller, Duryea and Brydges; Cuite and Councilman Merola express reservations about pkg
Gov Rockefeller says Penn Central and MTA agree on plan for MTA to control line's Westchester services and Grand Central properties through 60-yr lease at $1 a yr
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 1970, covering April 17, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
The Beatles
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
Santana
Led Zeppelin
1970Redman, American rapper, producer, and actor[†]
Reginald Noble, better known by his stage name Redman, is an American rapper, DJ, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label.
1970Apollo program: The damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]