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BALTIMORE, Oct. 9—The Baltimore Orioles, picking up where they left off, knocked out Dock Ellis inside three innings today and scored a 5‐3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the opening game of the 68th World Series.
Norman Rosten humorous article on spirited skirmish between NYC police and car owners faced with esoteric parking regulations; cartoon
THE NIXON Administration has now drafted a basic blueprint for controlling inflation in Phase Two of its economic stabilization program that bears promise of a reasonable measure of success, if it attracts the broad cooperation and support from all segments society that the President has sought.
W H Honan article on Disney World; tourist information given; illus; map
ROBER'T ANDERSON has been so desperately honest in “Double Solitaire.” the second, longer, and more important of his two new plays at the Golden, that he is owed absolute honesty in return. The play has to do with marriage as stalemate: a describes that moment of spiritual speechlessness in which two partners look at one another, hard, and realize that nothing they can say to one another will ever again change anything. What is good about “Double solitaire” is that virtually everything in it is true. What is less good about it is that everything in it is only true.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 1971, covering October 10, 1971.
Rod Stewart
Carole King
John Lennon
Soundtrack
The Moody Blues
1971Graham Alexander, English-Scottish footballer and manager[†]
Graham Alexander is a professional football coach and former player who manages EFL League One club Bradford City. In a lengthy playing career, Alexander represented Scunthorpe United, Luton Town, Preston North End and Burnley. He also made 40 international appearances for Scotland.
1971Ian Bennett, English footballer[†]
Ian Michael Bennett is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1989 to 2014, most notably representing Birmingham City between 1993 and 2005. He is currently the goalkeeping coach at Huddersfield Town.
1971Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist[†]
Evgeny Igorevich Kissin is a Russian-born concert pianist and composer. He became a British citizen in 2002 and an Israeli citizen in 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Modest Mussorgsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven. He is commonly viewed as a great successor of the Russian piano school because of the depth, lyricism and poetic quality of his interpretations.
1971John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and scholar (born 1901)[†]
John Cawte Beaglehole was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook's three journals of exploration, together with the writing of an acclaimed biography of Cook, published posthumously. He had a lifelong association with Victoria University College, which became Victoria University of Wellington, and after his death it named the archival collections after him.
1971Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.[†]
Aeroflot Flight 773 was a scheduled domestic Soviet Union passenger flight from Moscow to Simferopol that crashed following a bomb explosion on 10 October 1971.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]