Baltimore Field Goal in Last 5 Seconds Defeats Dallas in Super Bowl, 16 to 13
Baltimore defeats Dallas, 16-13, in Super Bowl game
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Baltimore defeats Dallas, 16-13, in Super Bowl game
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—A key White House tactic in its confrontation with the steel industry over prices last week was cancellation of a negotiat ing session scheduled with foreign countries aimed at con tinuing an arrangement that limits steel imports.
Army agents, in 2-yr intelligence operation which took place from summer of '67 to fall of '69, gathered information on pol activists, including antiwar dissenters; operation is known as Continental US Intelligence (or Conus Intel) and paid particular attention to well-publicized plans for antiwar march in Washington in Oct, '67; high pol leaders castigated agents for their failures in regard to march; agents also were present during '68 Dem Natl Conv in Chicago
Bronx Dist Atty Roberts repts smashing ring engaged in theft and sale of NYS licensing exams for chiropractors; tests, scheduled for 400 candidates, canceled; 3 persons arrested; list; grand jury sets probe; test is crucial to many chiropractors under '63 law providing for their licensing; Bronx Dist Atty to check on other professional licensing exams; reptdly notifies Florida that there have been sales of its licensing exams
1,600 Teamsters Local 202 members stage strike against 9 produce assns, closing 4 produce mkts that handle most of NYC's fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables, after expiration of contract and rejection by warehousemen and drivers of new contract offer; strike by entire local assured in spite of acceptance by union's frozen food handlers of new 3-yr contract offer; walkout seen affecting city's consumers by end of wk; union pres Ullrich and NYC Ports and Terminals Comr Crossman comment; union officials say agreements have been reached with individual grocery chains but that strike will affect these as well as others that have not reached agreement with local; warehousemen and drivers who voted against new contract receive base pay of $2.90 per hour, with work done before 5 AM at time-and-a-half rates; employers had offered contract containing wkly increases of $35 and additional employer-paid benefits of $5.90; offer accepted by frozen food handlers provides 3-yr contract with wage increase of $62.50 per wk plus $5.90 in fringe benefits; NYS Mediation Bd chmn McDonnell appts M Procoppio as mediator in talks between union and assns; map of mkts
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 13, 1971, covering January 18, 1971.
George Harrison
Santana
Stephen Stills
Sly & The Family Stone
The Partridge Family
1971Amy Barger, American astronomer[†]
Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wavelengths and in discovering distant galaxies and supermassive black holes, which are outside of the visible spectrum. Barger is an active member of the International Astronomical Union.
1971Jonathan Davis, American singer-songwriter[†]
Jonathan Howsmon Davis, also known as JD, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn, which is considered a pioneering act of the nu metal genre. Davis's distinctive personality and Korn's music influenced a generation of musicians and performers who have come after them.
1971Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver[†]
Christian Fittipaldi is a Brazilian former racing driver who has competed in various forms of motorsport including Formula One, Champ Car, and NASCAR. He was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, and participated in 43 Formula One Grands Prix for Minardi and Footwork between 1992 and 1994.
1971Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala is a Catalan professional football manager and former player from Spain who has been the manager of Premier League club Manchester City since 2016. Guardiola is one of two managers in history to win the continental treble twice and he holds the record for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, Bundesliga, and the Premier League. He is considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time.
1971Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (died 2019)[†]
Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he was the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazine. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World".
1971Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (born 1914)[†]
Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time." While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]