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gunman escapes from First Natl City Bank New Hyde Pk branch, Queens, with satchel of money, much of it counterfeit; much of $5,306 in bona fide money he stole were bills that were marked because their serial numbers and series of yr are recorded at bank
Nixon Adm terms planned sale by 2 US grain cos of large amt of feed grains to USSR 1st step in expansion of trade with USSR; note impetus has been generated for more sales in future
Sup Ct, in rare instance, agrees to hear on Sat morning plea against Amchitka nuclear blast scheduled for late afternoon; not to rule on merits of blast itself, but on legal question whether AEC violated law by not being open and forthright in published data on possible impact of blast; environmental groups to be represented by Sive, Govt by Solicitor Gen Griswold; Nixon gets petition against blast from group of 35 Sens headed by Brooke; gets petition from 12 leading Amer scientists; Schlesinger illus at Amchitka site
NY Times survey finds that police depts in major cities throughout US are reporting recent upsurge in job applicants, particularly applicants with more educ than was usual in past; trend seen as significant shift from pattern of only few yrs ago when jobs outnumbered seekers; police officials throughout nation comment; illus
BLS makes available avg estimated retail food prices for Aug in 23 met areas, including NYC met area and northern NJ; consumers will be able to compare prices to see if retailers are violating Pres Nixon's wage-price freeze; list of avg retail food prices for approx 100 food items
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 3, 1971, covering November 6, 1971.
Soundtrack
Santana
Rod Stewart
John Lennon
Carole King
1971Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer and politician[†]
Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She is married and has one daughter.
1971The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.[†]
The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. This shift gave the members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the atomic bomb.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]