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Pravda article by disarmament specialist V Shestov holds stepped-up US defense budget 'incompatible with a constructive approach to problems discussed at SALT'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The first comprehensive comparative study of the 50 state legislatures shows California and New York to have the best and Alabama and Wyoming the worst.
NYC Chancellor H B Scribner recommends girls be permitted to compete with boys on hs athletic teams in noncontact sports such as tennis and swimming; he cites state's findings as well as issues of 'civil liberties and human rights'; case involving P Graber, girl student at Jamaica HS, who was refused place on boys' tennis team in '70, because of state and city policy that banned coeduc athletic teams recalled
liberals' efforts to topple seniority system fails as HR Dems refuse to unseat McMillan as DC Com chmn by vote of 126 to 96 in Dem caucus; Dems shout down liberal proposals to impose 70-yr age limit on com chmn and to limit chmn's service to 4 2-yr terms; liberals also fail to win seat on Ways and Means Com for Fraser, 1 of their spokesmen; he is defeated, 119-104, by Waggoner, spokesman for conservative Southerners; over-all list of com assignments approved by caucus seen reflecting greater voice in legis process for liberal bloc; with backing of Albert and Boggs, key coms are enlarged to include liberals and moderates despite protests by some chmn; Mahon tried to cut size of Appropriations Com; instead, it is enlarged by 3 seats, from 30 to 33, and 6 liberals and moderates are assigned to fill new seats and 3 vacancies; Adams resigns from DC Com to protest leadership's support of McMillan; McCloskey, Repub, urges Repubs join forces with Dem liberals to unseat McMillan when HR votes on ratification of all Dem and Repub com assignments; surprising strength of Dem liberals move to unseat McMillan is regarded in some qrs as reflecting intensive lobbying by Common Cause; with enlargement of most Dem ratios on coms, most freshmen draw choicer assignments than newcomers of past; Dellums assigned to Judiciary Com, Hicks and Grasso to Educ and Labor Com, Drinan to Judiciary Com and Internal Security Com
BRUNSWICK, Ga., Feb. 3—At least 24 persons were killed today when a blast and fire leveled a munitions building at a Thiokol Chemical Corporation plant.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 3, 1971, covering February 4, 1971.
George Harrison
Various Artists
Santana
Elton John
Sly & The Family Stone
1971Rob Corddry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Robert William Corddry is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2002–2006) and for his starring role in the film Hot Tub Time Machine. He is the creator and star of Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital and has been awarded four Primetime Emmy Awards. He previously starred in the HBO series Ballers and the CBS comedy The Unicorn.
1971Michael A. Goorjian, American actor, director, and writer[†]
Michael A. Goorjian is an American actor, filmmaker, and writer. Goorjian won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his role as David Goodson in the television film David's Mother (1994). He is also known for his role as Justin, Neve Campbell’s love interest on the series Party of Five (1994–2000), as well as Heroin Bob in the film SLC Punk! (1998) and its sequel, Punk's Dead (2016). As a director, Goorjian achieved recognition for his first major independent film, Illusion (2004), which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Kirk Douglas.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]