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EVERY week, more than 26,000 Jobs are advertised In The New York Times. See the Employment Columns today.—Advt.
Some 300,000 New Yorkers who have been smoking more and paying less by buying their cigarettes from North Carolina mail‐order houses may soon find themselves paying $1.5‐mil lion or more in uncollected tax es and penalties.
EVERY week, more than 213.000 jobs are advertised In The New York Times,. See the Employment Columns today, Advt.
round-up of currency dealings in Eur foreign-exch mkts; activity is reptd light as traders wait for trend to develop on new currency values
Pres Nixon pledges to personally lead independently budgeted natl program to conquer cancer, news conf; expresses hope that Pres interest and guidance will hasten discovery of cure and pledges that necessary funds will be provided; Adm proposal, introduced by Sen Dominick, calls for establishment of expanded cancer research program within Natl Health Insts, tantamount to establishment of virtually ind cancer agency; cancer inst dir will become deputy dir of new program and cancer cure advisory com will be established absorbing Natl Cancer Advisory Council; com will consist of other appointees including Pres chief science adviser; similar bill was introduced earlier in yr by Sen Kennedy; Nixon says he cannot give timetable for conquest of cancer but cites breakthroughs in recent yrs; Natl Health Insts dir Dr Marston cites efforts in genetics and virus research linked to cancer; HEW Dept Sec Richardson says Adm's plan will absorb Natl Cancer Inst into cancer cure program within Natl Health Insts; urges close cooperation between cancer program and Natl Health Insts as 'collaborators'; some scientists have expressed concern over establishment of natl cancer authority because it would lead to dismemberment of Natl Health Insts; Nixon has already asked Cons to appropriate additional $100-million in addition to Natl Cancer Insts $232-million budget; HR, scheduled to vote on $100-million appropriation, fails to complete action on bill; leadership of anticancer effort now seen passing from Adm to Cong; several other proposals in addition to Kennedy's have been introduced in Cong and Sen (Kennedy) subcom will refrain from acting on Kennedy's bill to give Adm chance to testify on behalf of its own bill
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 12, 1971, covering May 12, 1971.
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
Various Artists
The Partridge Family
Janis Joplin
Three Dog Night
1971Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (born 1901)[†]
Henry Emmett Manush, nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1923–1927), St. Louis Browns (1928–1930), Washington Senators (1930–1935), Boston Red Sox (1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1938–1939). After retiring as a player, Manush was a minor league manager from 1940 to 1945, a scout for the Boston Braves in the late 1940s and a coach for the Senators from 1953 to 1954. He also scouted for the expansion Senators in the early 1960s. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]