Intrepid Wins Series, 4â1, And Keeps America's Cup
Intrepid wins 5th race and series; illus
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Intrepid wins 5th race and series; illus
Novelist J Dos Passos dies, 74
NYS Sen (Lent) Health Com opens hearings on possible changes in NYS malpractice laws; witnesses say sharp rise in suits forces drs to practice 'defensive med', avoid hazardous modes of treatment and pass along costs of rising ins premiums to patients; Lent says 1 of every 6 drs has been sued, sees over 10,000 suits in US in '70; testimony by NYC Comr McLaughlin, HEW Dept exec E P Bernzweig, Amer Osteopathic Assn exec Dr Gadowski, R C Morris detailed; NYS Anesthesiologists Soc exec Dr Schapira int; com members surprised at NYS Educ Dept exec E E Leuallen testimony that NYS under existing laws cannot start disciplinary action against drs who lose malpractice suits, except for dentists, nurses and pharmacists
Nixon, upon hearing of Nasser's death, cancels scheduled US 6th Fleet exercises
largest brush fire in Calif history rages through mt canyons near Mex border, forcing thousands to flee; map of fires throughout state; US Forest Service helicopter used for fireâfighting crashes in San Gabriel Mts; 5 killed; over 5,000 evacuated from small communities in San Diego County; fire there began in Cleveland Natl Forest when falling tree cut power line; at least 250 bldgs destroyed; decreasing winds and rain forecast raise hopes for relief; arson suspected in 2 other major San Diego County fires; 5 arrested in Los Angeles County; 30,000âacre blaze in Malibu area fought; 600 homes, nudist camp evacuated as 75âftâhigh wall of flame leaps ridge into Fernwood Canyon; Reagan repts 8,000â10,000 persons are fighting fires; estimates $165âmillion damage; fireâfighters come from as far as Montana, include 2,000 convicts
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 1970, covering September 29, 1970.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Soundtrack
Joe Cocker
The Who
Chicago
1970Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress[â ]
Natasha Gregson Wagner is an American actress. She is the daughter of film producer Richard Gregson and actress Natalie Wood. She has appeared in films including Lost Highway, Two Girls and a Guy, First Love, Last Rites, Urban Legend, Another Day in Paradise and High Fidelity (2000).

1970Khushbu Sundar, Indian actress, producer, and politician[â ]
Khushbu Sundar is an Indian politician, actress, film producer and television personality. She is known for her work predominantly in Tamil language films and in a few Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. She has appeared in over 185 films, and has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, two Cinema Express Awards, a Kalaimamani Award and a Kerala State Film Award.
1970Emily Lloyd, English actress[â ]
Emily Alice Lloyd-Pack, known as Emily Lloyd, is a British actress. At the age of 16, she starred in her debut and breakthrough role in the 1987 film Wish You Were Here, for which she received critical acclaim and Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Evening Standard British Film Awards. She subsequently relocated to Manhattan at 17, received numerous film offers, and starred in the 1989 films Cookie and In Country.
1970Russell Peters, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer[â ]
Russell Dominic Peters is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and producer. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and won a Gemini Award in 2008. In 2013, he was number three on Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid comedians, and became the first comedian to get a Netflix stand-up special. He also won the Peabody Award and the International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming for producing Hip-Hop Evolution (2016). He lives in Los Angeles.
1970Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese wrestler[â ]
Yoshihiro Tajiri is a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter primarily known under the ring name Tajiri, he has also competed under his real name as well as under the names Aquarius and Kikkoman and briefly worked as the masked character Tigre Blanco.
1970Edward Everett Horton, American actor (born 1886)[â ]
Edward Everett Horton, Jr. was an American character actor and comedian. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons.
1970Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (born 1893)[â ]
Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[â ]