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Arthur J. Goldberg brought in members of his family from as far away as Alaska yester‐ day to bolster his campaign for Governor in the last days be fore Tuesday's election.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — The courting of black voters by liberal white candidates, an open romance in the past, looks more like a back‐alley affair this year. The change could affect election outcomes in several key states next Tues day.
For the fist time in the state campaign, Governor Rockefeller will spend .a full day stumping with Senator Charles E. Goodell tomorrow, the day before the election.
Fire breaks out in commercial ballroom during pub dance, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, near Grenoble; at least 40, possibly 50 killed; police rept fire apparently begun by stray cigarette, that 200-300 people were in bldg, wooden structure
Sen campaign revd; cartoon
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1970, covering November 1, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
Santana
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Jackson 5
James Taylor
1970Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer[†]
Sherwin Legay Campbell is a former Barbadian cricketer who played 52 Tests and 90 One Day Internationals for the West Indies, and also a former ODI captain for Windies.
1970Toma Enache, Romanian film director[†]
Toma Enache is a Romanian film director and actor. Being of Aromanian ethnicity, he directed I'm Not Famous but I'm Aromanian, the first film in the Aromanian language. Enache has also directed two other films. Activities of him outside of the world of cinema are related to poetry and theatre.
1970Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (born 1892)[†]
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the coauthor of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. He was also the author of Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Culture (1939). In addition to writing and research, Lynd taught at Columbia from 1931 to 1960. He also served on U.S. government committees and advisory boards, including President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. Lynd was also a member of several scientific societies.
1970Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.[†]
The Club Cinq-Sept fire was a major blaze at a nightclub just outside Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère, France, on Sunday, 1 November 1970. The fire claimed the lives of 146 people, almost all of whom were aged between 17 and 30. The scale of the disaster shocked the country. Subsequent official enquiries revealed a catalogue of shortcomings, oversights and evasions with regard to fire safety at both local and département level. Criminal charges were brought against a number of people; some received suspended jail sentences.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]