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US Sup Ct refuses to hear appeal against deportation order by T G Jolley who renounced his citizenship in May '67, Toronto, where he fled to avoid draft
Nguyen Van Thieu outlines econ reform program, 's to nation' before joint legis session; currency devaluation, modernization of nation's fiscal and commercial system and tariff simplification are among aims of program; he says reforms are intended to decrease S Vietnam's dependence on US econ aid and to combat its chronic inflation by promoting local indus and increasing tax revenues; says 'We will do everything possible before we beg for foreign aid'
Cost of Living Council dir Rumsfeld indicates he agrees with Price Comm that auto indus should not be allowed to raise prices without approval from comm; reptdly joins drafting of compromise under which Price Comm would notify cos such as auto mfrs within 72 hrs on whether their price increases were acceptable; council has ruled earlier that cos that had wage increases due before end of yr could raise prices to meet cost of pay rises without 1st notifying Price Comm; auto cos were main beneficiaries of this ruling
Johnson attends White House worship service with Pres Nixon; illus
Dir Blatchford issues memo calling on staff members with over 5 yrs of service to relinquish their positions so that others may serve; strict new interpretation of regulation known as '5-yr rule' will affect about 10% of total Peace Corps adm staff, including 27 of 55 program dirs stationed overseas; agency spokesman says rule was not implemented in '70 because of bureaucratic turmoil resulting from transfer of Peace Corps into larger agency Action; sudden enforcement of rule leads to criticism that staff members are victims of pol purge; staff veteran charges that Blatchford knows that most of persons are Dems and that he wants to replace them with Repubs who will owe their jobs to him and Nixon Adm; R S Shriver Jr says rule should have been enforced across bd from start; holds abrupt action will create major problems overseas; J Porter denies that pol is behind dismissals; says action is part of Peace Corps law that should have been enforced all along; maintains that principal motivation is budgetary, although he says about 2/3 of those being dismissed will be replaced as soon as possible; Shriver says it will be very expensive to bring all those people home and send out replacements; holds such move would wipe out any saving
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1971, covering November 15, 1971.
Santana
Soundtrack
Rod Stewart
John Lennon
Cat Stevens
1971Jay Harrington, American actor[†]
James H. Harrington III, professionally known as Jay Harrington, is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as the title character in the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted in 2009–2010, and from 2017 to 2025 as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay in S.W.A.T.
1971Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer[†]
Martin Pieckenhagen is a German former professional footballer. He is the sporting director of Hansa Rostock.
1971Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (born 1903)[†]
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was the alias of William August Fisher, a Soviet intelligence officer, created to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when Fisher was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.
1971Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.[†]
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units (CPUs) and related products for business and consumer markets. It is one of the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturers by revenue, and ranked in the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue for nearly a decade, from 2007 to 2016 fiscal years, until it was removed from the ranking in 2018. In 2020, it was reinstated and ranked 45th, being the 7th-largest technology company in the ranking. It was one of the first companies listed on Nasdaq.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]