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In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[â ]
1971Leisha Hailey, American singer-songwriter and actress[â ]
Leisha Hailey is an American actress and musician known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the Showtime Networks series The L Word and The L Word: Generation Q. Hailey first came to the public's attention as a musician in the pop duo The Murmurs and has continued her music career as part of the band Uh Huh Her. Currently, Hailey hosts podcast PANTS with fellow L Word star and close friend, Kate Moennig.
1971Scott Muller, Australian cricketer[â ]
Scott Andrew Muller is a former Australian and Queensland cricketer of German ancestry.
1971John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (born 1910)[â ]
John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote "super-science" space opera under his own name and other stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. Campbell also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There? (1938) was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011).
1971Pedro RodrĂguez, Mexican racing driver (born 1940)[â ]
Pedro RodrĂguez de la Vega was a Mexican racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1971. RodrĂguez won two Formula One Grands Prix across nine seasons. In endurance racing, RodrĂguez won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968 with Ford, and was a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona with Porsche.
1971The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.[â ]
The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chilenization of copper was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the three large world-class mines known as 'La Gran Mineria' and three smaller operations. The Chilean-owned smaller copper mines were not affected. The process started under the government of President Carlos Ibåñez del Campo (1952â1958), and culminated during the government of President Salvador Allende (1970â1973), who completed the nationalization. This "act of sovereignty" was the espoused basis for a later international economic boycott, which further isolated Chile from the world economy, worsening the state of political polarization that led to the 1973 Chilean coup d'Ă©tat.
Chem smog troubles Houston and ship channel area; Houston Health Dept to bring charges against Stauffer Chem Co for alleged violations of pollution laws, 2 outbreaks of smog-related illnesses have occurred near Stauffer's plant; co denies that it is source of smog; map
SAIGON—The public stance of American policymakers toward the presidential elections here next fall seems simple enough: The United States will adopt a hands‐off attitude in an effort to show neutrality. Instructions have gone out to American military men and civilians not “to offer or give any support to any candidate” by word or deed.
GROWING up has al ways been a hard thing in America, a nation which, born of a European super‐civilization and a native wilderness, has itself often seemed entoiled in a kind of eternal adolescence. Lately, for many, it has come to seem almost impossible. Some of our wittier, more frantic young “revolution aries” have even taken to declaring it undesirable. Still others — the homicidal auto matons of My Lai or Beverly Hills, the suicidal drug ad dicts proliferating in our midst—simply give mute evi dence of some extremes to which the current epidemic of dissociation among the young has taken us. According to what models, and at what cost, does one become a re sponsible man or woman— an “adult”—in the frustrat ed, disenchanted America of today.?
DUBLIN, July 10—Mrs. Mar garet Court of Australia took a measure of revenge for her Wimbledon defeat by downing 19‐year‐old Evonne Goolagong today, 6‐3, 2–6, 6‐3, for the Irish open tennis championship.
HOW long has it been since you've seen a good Saturday night movie? I'm not talking about how long it's been since you've seen a good movie on a Saturday night, which is something else entirely. Seeing a good movie on any night is a rare phenomenon, but possibly not quite as rare as coming across a good Saturday night movie, which, as I'm sure anybody over 35 will remember, is a movie with out great pretensions, which is enter taining in a simple (though not neces sarily simple‐minded) way, and which manages in some mysterious manner to evoke similar reactions of laughter, tears, shock, surprise, fright, goodwill and anger in all sorts of dissimilar audi ences.
Pan Amer pres Halaby, in int denying that co is near bankruptcy, discusses co's financial plight and factors contributing to it, illus
Summer Economics Inst for Law Profs, Univ of Rochester, discussed; teacher Prof A Alchian, founder Prof Manne, participants comment; inst sponsored by Earhart and Koch Foundations, Veritas Fund and GM
SOUTHPORT, England, July 10—A horrendous 7 on the next‐to‐last hole today almost cost Lee Trevino the British Open that he had seemingly sewed up with a five‐stroke lead halfway through the final day.
Laird holds news conf, Tokyo
survey finds conservationists and environmentalists throughout world opposed to bldg of new jetports or expansion of present ones; illus