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Business has long been ac customed to love and mar riage when they came in the form of clerical romance around the water cooler or the secretary who went to the altar with her boss.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 23 — They gave Texas Christian University to the Penn State Nittany Lions Beaver Stadium today and the result was as lopsided as one of those old Roman Colos seum hoedowns, with Penn Stdte winning, 66‐14, to re main undefeated through six games.
NY Times survey of pol shifts and realignments in Asian countries stemming from Nixon Adm overtures toward Poking and prospect of Nixon's visit; some Amer allies fearful, but US officials are mainly pleased by 'fallout' of new policy; country‐by‐country breakdown of effects
WASHINGTON — The Amer ican public was given a rare, fascinating and somewhat dis quieting glimpse into Presiden tial decision‐making last week as Richard Nixon, swept up in another judicial selection crisis, finally settled upon Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehn quist as his nominees for the Supreme Court.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 20, 1971, covering October 24, 1971.
Rod Stewart
John Lennon
Soundtrack
Santana
Carole King
1971Aaron Bailey, American football player[†]
Aaron Duane Bailey is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist for five seasons with the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League (NFL). Bailey later played for one season in the XFL (2001) and six seasons in the Arena Football League (2001–2006). He played college football at Louisville.
1971Gustavo Jorge, Argentina international rugby union player[†]
Gustavo Martín Jorge is a former Argentine rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a wing.
1971Zephyr Teachout, American academic[†]
Zephyr Rain Teachout is an American attorney, author, political candidate, and professor of law specializing in democracy and antitrust at Fordham University.
1971Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athlete[†]
Diane Claire Guthrie-Gresham is a retired female track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specialized in the Long Jump and Heptathlon during her career.
1971Caprice Bourret, American model and actress[†]
Caprice Bourret is an American businesswoman, singer, model, actress and television personality. She runs her companies, By Caprice and JJLove Productions. She has appeared in over 300 Films and TV Shows
1971Carl Ruggles, American composer (born 1876)[†]
Carl Ruggles was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number of eight pitch classes intervened. He is considered a founder of the ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme perfectionist—writing music at a painstakingly slow rate and leaving behind a very small output.
1971Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1936)[†]
Joseph Siffert was a Swiss racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1962 to 1971. Siffert won two Formula One Grands Prix across 10 seasons.
1971Chuck Hughes, NFL player died during a game (born 1943)[†]
Charles Frederick Hughes was an American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1967 to 1971 with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]