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Sen approves amendment to State Const to empower state to make gifts or loans to private individuals for construction of housing, indus and community facilities
US Sup Ct, 6-3, upholds const of states granting juries the right 'to pronounce life or death in capital cases' and of common practice by which juries decide guilt and immediately determine whether the death penalty will be imposed, without hearing further evidence, McGautha-Crampton cases
Ulbricht resigns as Communist party head; cites old age and ill health; illus; por
about 7,000 Mayday Tribe demonstrators arrested after confrontations with police and Fed troops throughout large areas of Washington; 150 demonstrators, 5 policemen hurt in 6 hrs of disturbances; plan to halt Govt operation fails; procedure for release of those arrested set up at 11 PM, 12 hrs after most of arrests were made; freedom obtained with forfeiture of a $10 collateral; Asst Atty Gen W Wilson says almost half of 7,000 arrested are being freed; many of those still detained face charges more serious than disorderly conduct; almost all those held spend 12 hrs in temporary outdoor detention facilities, including a football practice field, near R F Kennedy Memorial Stadium; demonstrators disrupted city's normal functioning by impeding traffic and harassing Govt employes on way to work; police fight these tactics with tear gas and clubs; Police Chief J V Wilson says demonstrators numbered 12,000 to 15,000; cites widespread use of drugs; Mayday spokesman concedes 'we didn't stop the Govt this morning, but we've never done this before'; says, for future protests, 'we'll be more together'; R Davis among those arrested; held on $25,000 bond on charge of conspiring to violate citizens' rights to travel in interstate commerce and to work for the US Govt; warrant issued for arrest of J Froines on same charge; Froines is a Chicago Seven member who had been acquitted in Chicago trial; details on demonstration incidents; illus
Health & Hosps Corp makes arrangements for emergency deliveries of gasoline for ambulances as strike enters 3d day
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 28, 1971, covering May 4, 1971.
Various Artists
Janis Joplin
The Partridge Family
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
Three Dog Night
1971William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (born 1902)[†]
William Brown Meloney V was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]