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“Urban crisis” has become one of the great clichés of our time and the words don't seem to have impact anymore. But what they mean to someone living in New York City is simply this: The average family here will pay something like $600 more in taxes next year for worse schools, dirtier streets, more crime—and more and more welfare.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 6—More nourishing fodder for Yankee optimism was produced by today's 2‐0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles than by yesterday's opening triumph over Washington.
M Andretti (Ferrari) wins S African Grand Prix
Villanova wins champ
Efforts to combat traffic in stolen airline tickets discussed; lines claim they have lost millions to well-organized groups that steal blank tickets from travel agencies and airline offices and sell them, often at half regular price; IATA estimates its 105 airline members lose $6-million per yr to travelers using stolen tickets; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 3, 1971, covering March 7, 1971.
Janis Joplin
Soundtrack
Chicago
Various Artists
Elton John
1971Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager[†]
Tal Banin is an Israeli football manager and former player who most recently was the manager of Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. Banin played as a defensive midfielder. A captain for the Israel national team for many years, Banin was also the only Israeli player to ever play in the Italian Serie A until 2011, when Palermo signed Eran Zahavi.
1971Peter Sarsgaard, American actor[†]
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television.
1971Matthew Vaughn, English director and producer[†]
Sir Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and directed Layer Cake (2004), Stardust (2007), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Argylle (2024). Vaughn also co-created the Kingsman comic book series and resulting franchise, directing, producing and co-writing the films Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and The King's Man (2021).
1971Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1930)[†]
Richard Merritt Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide, at age 40.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]