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In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]
1971Karen Darke, English cyclist and author[†]
Karen Darke,, FRSGS is a British paralympic cyclist, paratriathlete, adventurer and author. She competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics winning Gold in the Women's road time trial, following her success in the 2012 London Paralympics winning a silver medal in the Women's road time trial H1-2.
1971Jason Gallian, Australian-English cricketer and educator[†]
Jason Edward Riche Gallian is a former English Test cricketer. A right-handed opening batter, he originally hails from Australia and captained their Under-19 side for two Under-19 Tests in 1989 and 1990. He played three Test matches for England, with a highest score of 28 runs. Gallian was a county professional for fifteen years, playing for Lancashire, Nottinghamshire including a period as captain, and Essex before retiring in 2009. Gallian scored 171 on his Championship debut for Essex.
1971Rod Kafer, Australian rugby player and sportscaster[†]
Rodney B. Kafer is a retired rugby union player for the ACT Brumbies and the Australian Wallabies. He is remembered by Brumbies fans for kicking a drop-goal in the final minute in a 2001 game against the Cats giving the Brumbies a one-point win. He now works for Fox Sports as a rugby commentator and has a weekly segment on the show Rugby HQ called "Fox Field". He attended Canberra Grammar School in his youth. At the age of 15 he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
1971Angela Kinsey, American actress[†]
Angela Faye Kinsey is an American actress. She played Angela Martin in the sitcom The Office (2005–2013) and appeared in the sitcoms Your Family or Mine (2015) and Haters Back Off (2016–2017). Since The Office, Kinsey has appeared in Netflix's Tall Girl, Disney+'s Be Our Chef, A.P. Bio, and as a panelist on MTV's Deliciousness. She is a podcast co-host of Office Ladies.
1971Neil Lennon, Northern Irish-Scottish footballer and manager[†]
Neil Francis Lennon is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He currently manages Scottish Championship club Dunfermline Athletic.
1971Michael Tucker, American baseball player[†]
Michael Anthony Tucker is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman. Tucker played with the Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves (1997-1998), Cincinnati Reds (1999-2001), Chicago Cubs (2001), San Francisco Giants (2004-2005), Philadelphia Phillies (2005) and New York Mets (2006). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
1971John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880)[†]
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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fresh S Vietnamese troops flown to Fire Base Fuller in US helicopters reptdly retake position 1 day after it fell to N Vietnamese troops; US bases in same area come under attack; 4 Amers killed, 8 wounded in 2 other attacks within 15 mi of Fuller; map
5,000 persons demonstrate, Hartford, against Meskill fiscal program; demonstration sponsored by ins indus, led by Hartford Mayor Athanson, Dem; illus
Details of the city's new withholding tax rates were made public yesterday, along with the impact of the new cigarette tax and the pos sibility of an expansion of the new plastic‐container tax.
Fed Appeals Ct, Washington, denies, 7-2, Justice Dept appeal for new hearing on its effort to stop Washington Post from resuming publication of Pentagon study material; Justice Dept asks US Sup Ct to overrule decision; Appeals Ct says Govt has not demonstrated any ground for preventing the publication of a single document in the study; at issue is whether a small but unspecified sec of the study should be kept secret; Govt contends there was 'agreement' between Post and Govt lawyers that 'some of the documents will be protected'; Govt brief says it is trying to protect The Times and The Post had rendered uncertain the secret 'agreement'
Sen, 72-16, passes bill to continue mil draft for 2 more yrs, which includes provision requiring mil to identify and rehabilitate drug addicts in service
S Topping series on China; he repts cultural revolution doctrines have been translated into new Communist dogma, that dogma has propelled China into a continuing revolution that is producing a new 'Maoist man'; says relative stability, prosperity and surface tranquility have been restored to China; describes Maoist thought-remolding program which has succeeded in ideologically screening, purging and re-educating an entire generation of students; discusses role of revolutionary coms and army propaganda teams which supervise all econ activity and carry on continuous struggle to root out what they regard as 'subversive thinking'; describes major changes in econ, pol and soc conditions; speculates on possible successor to Mao; illus of some facets of Chinese life
The Waldorf‐Astoria Hotel was ordered yesterday to re fund $113,202.83 that it charged 64,338 customers for “sundries” between December, 1969, and May 1970.
Gov Rockefeller signs bill placing NYC Health Dept under state supervision effective July 1 abolishing historic independence of dept; measure will also eliminate city's long-standing exemption from NYS Sanitary Coda; bill is viewed as opening move in Rockefeller's avowed drive to bring city under state supervision; NYC health officials express uncertainty as to bill's possible consequences; some predict deluge of legal cases challenging city's stricter code; NYC Health Comr McLaughlin, who learned of bill 1 day ago, expresses bewilderment; charges leveled by NYC Health Bd when bill was originally introduced on Mar 2 recalled; areas that bill will cover outlined; some of NYC Health Dept's precedent-setting actions recalled
State Sup Ct declares income tax, enacted in Mar, unconst, throwing Shapp adm into quandary; $135-million has been collected, most of it already spent; ct finds tax 'offends const requirement of uniformity'; Shapp entered office in fiscal crisis brought on by inability of former Gov Shafer to get income tax enacted
New 5-yr econ plan that shifts priorities from investment in heavy industries to needs of nation's hard-pressed consumers is unveiled at Central Com session; Premier Jaroszewicz outlines increases in planned investment in light industries, consumer goods, food and animal production; pledges special emphasis on housing; new plan is substitute for program drafted under Gomulka, which was considered by most experts to be unrealistic; new and old plans compared
NY Times petitions US Sup Ct to permit it to resume pub of material from Pentagon study; ct confers for several hrs but does not act on appeal; expected to decide next day; Justice Dept, after Fed Appeals Ct turns down its petition for a rehearing on its effort to stop Washington Post from resuming publication, appeals to Sup Ct; 2 appeals bring before Sup Ct for 1st time question of any ct's authority to restrain press from publishing news that the Govt says harms natl security; Solicitor Gen Griswold asks Sup Ct to stay Post from resuming publication pending Sup Ct decision; says purpose of move is to place Times and Post on even footing; says Ct could treat his application for a stay as a petition for rev of Appeals Ct proceedings; Times asks in separate papers that Ct rev and overturn decision handed down by Appeals Ct in its case; at issue is a secret 'special appendix' given to Appeals Ct by Justice Dept containing inventory of portions of study that Govt says endangers natl security; Govt says inventory is in form of sworn statements by Govt officials; Times says this bears out its contention that the Ct of Appeals relied on sworn 'testimony' that had not been subjected to cross-examination; illus
Sen Foreign Relations Com opens hearings on US China policy; chmn Sen Fulbright says aim is to examine state of 'lack of relations' with mainland China; 5 Sens urge US back seating Communists in UN; 2, it is noted, McGovern and Kennedy, have recently sought permission to visit China; Kennedy's office confirms he has sought apptmt with Chou