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The head‐on collision between the force of precedent and the law of averages shapes up today at Yankee Stadium, where the New York Giants are favored over the St. Louis Cardinals in a 1 P.M. game that is not likely to affect the National Football League championship.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27—When Navy midshipmen set the tail end of a papier mache Army mule on fire before the game today, the Philadelphia Fire Department extinguished the blaze. But when the Navy football team stirred some potentially volatile sparks late in the game, the Army defense was able to douse them by itself.
It was no accident that when the first engineer set foot on the site of the planned low‐income housing project in Forest Hills, his most furious adversary was an elderly woman. Though she was small and frail her anger was towering.
NYC City Council Pres Garelik calls for investigation of OTB by Council and Estimate Bd; notes expenses are running twice as high as had been forecast; says he also has questions about computer contracts, computer performance, doubtful ad, extravagant promises and lack of satisfactory performance; OTB spokesman challenges Garelik figures on expenses but holds OTB welcomes probe
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Nov. 27—A British soldier and two civilians were killed today in the worst day of violence in Northern Ireland for several weeks. Security forces reported at least 15 explosions and more than 30 incidents throughout the province.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 24, 1971, covering November 28, 1971.
Santana
Soundtrack
Cat Stevens
John Lennon
Sly & The Family Stone
1971Wasfi al-Tal, Jordanian captain and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Jordan (born 1920)[†]
Wasfi Tal was a Jordanian politician, statesman and military officer. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970 until his assassination in 1971.
1971Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.[†]
The Tsilhqotʼin or Chilcotin are a North American tribal government of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that live in what is now known as British Columbia, Canada. They are the most southern of the Athabaskan-speaking Indigenous peoples in British Columbia.
1971Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.[†]
Wasfi Tal was a Jordanian politician, statesman and military officer. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970 until his assassination in 1971.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]