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foreign diplomats in Washington link Soviet 'war of nerves' against Rumania to Rumanian intimacy with China, to independence in econ affairs and to independence in world Communist movement
US officials note that Japanese decision to float yen does little to resolve other problems of trade; indicate they think action is intended to lessen Amer pressure to eliminate some restrictions; note that effect of surcharge on price of Amer exports to Japan will have to await clearer appraisal of value of yen in relation to dollar; White House press sec Ziegler says US is not going to begin to suggest what action will be taken or what effect floating may or may not have
Hundreds of Amers, most of them coll students, stranded in Eur because charter airlines have refused to hon their return tickets; most of tickets were bought at 2 NYC travel agents, Univ Students Assn and Amer Union of Students, now defunct and under investigation for fraud; CAB official estimates that 350 are probably stranded, fears number will grow substantially between now and Labor Day; officials of nonscheduled airlines, contending that they have not been paid for return trips, refuse to hon vouchers; US Embassy, London, sends cable to State Dept urging prompt crackdown on illicit charter-flight sales; CAB says it is investigating but has limited jurisdiction; B Levy, dir of consumer frauds div of NYS Atty Gen's office, says he has been probing both agencies; Pan Amer and TWA have asked CAB for special exemption to allow them to carry stranded youths home at half youth fare
FCC staff examiner D I Kraushaar rules that AT&T should be allowed 8 1/4% rate of return on interstate service under current financial conditions; proposes gen range of 7.9% to 8.8% as reasonable interstate earnings that AT&T can expect to justify in future; proposed rate is substantial increase over 7-7 1/2% range resulting from FCC gen rate investigation in '66 but far short of 9.5% rate AT&T held necessary to make its stock and bonds more attractive; AT&T comments
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 25, 1971, covering August 28, 1971.
Carole King
Paul & Linda McCartney
James Taylor
Rod Stewart
Carpenters
1971Shane Andrews, American baseball player[†]
Darrell Shane Andrews is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball. He graduated from Carlsbad New Mexico High School in 1990. Andrews began his minor-league career in 1990 with the Gulf Coast Expos. In 1992, he led he South Atlantic League with 25 home runs and 107 walks.
1971Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach[†]
Todd James Eldredge is an American former competitive figure skater. He is the 1996 World champion, a six-time U.S. national champion, a three-time Olympian, and a six-time World medalist.
1971Janet Evans, American swimmer[†]
Janet Beth Evans is an American former competition swimmer who swam from 1989 to 1992 for Stanford University and specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals in the 400 and 800-meter freestyle events at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics. In the late 1980s Evans was the first woman to hold three world records simultaneously in the 400, 800, and 1500-meter freestyle and was the first American woman to win four individual Olympic gold medals in swimming.
1971Daniel Goddard, Australian-American actor[†]
Daniel Richard Goddard is an Australian-American actor and model. He is known for his starring role as Dar on the syndicated action drama BeastMaster, based on the 1982 film The Beastmaster, and for playing Cane Ashby on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2007 to 2019.
1971Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster[†]
Raúl Márquez is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. He held IBF junior middleweight title between April and December 1997. Márquez also represented the U.S. at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
1971Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)[†]
Reuben Margolies was an Israeli author, Talmudic scholar and head of the Rambam library.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]