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December 15, 1971

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Campus Homosexuals Organize To Win Community Acceptance

By Robert Reinhold

NY Times survey finds thousands of coll students are proclaiming their homosexuality and openly organizing 'gay' groups on campuses across country; groups often have official sanction and acceptance from fellow students, although some psychiatrists and psychologists are uneasy about ready availability of gay groups in presence of adolescents whose sexual identities are not fully crystallized; gay students hope to build sense of community among homosexuals and to disabuse heterosexual classmates of myths about homosexuality; Natl Student Center Assn has recently opened division called Natl Gay Student Center; recent meeting at Queens Coll in NY was attended by over 100 coll psychologists and counselors from 30 colls who met with gay students; situations in specific colls described

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Dollar Decision Is Hailed By Congressional Leaders

By Unknown Author

Cong leaders overwhelmingly applaud Nixon's decision to devalue dollar; Sen Proxmire calls announcement 'most welcome news'; Repr Reuss says action is 'glorious'; suggests that Cong act immediately on bill introduced by Repr Javits and himself to increase price of gold before Cong adjourns; predicts bill's approval before adjournment, noting internatl money mkts are doomed to more wks of uncertainty until Cong can reconvene if bill is not passed; says Nixon's decision to seek devaluation is long overdue, noting Dems 1st urged such action 3 mos ago; other leaders indicate that Cong can await message from Nixon, asking in detail for what he wants; Sen Mansfield says delay will not hurt; holds Nixon's announcement will have as much psychological effect as actual legis; says devaluation 'is probably move in right direction'; Sen Scott expresses support for modest devaluation; spokesman for Repr Patman says that Patman 'probably will go along' with increase in price of gold; others voicing approval of Nixon's decision are Sens McGovern, Ribicoff and Tower

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 1971, covering December 15, 1971.

  1. 1
    Album cover for There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone

    There's A Riot Goin' On

    Sly & The Family Stone

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    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
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    Album cover for Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin IV

    Led Zeppelin

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    5
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    4
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    Album cover for Santana III by Santana

    Santana III

    Santana

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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
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    Album cover for Teaser And The Firecat by Cat Stevens

    Teaser And The Firecat

    Cat Stevens

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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    11
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    Album cover for Chicago At Carnegie Hall by Chicago

    Chicago At Carnegie Hall

    Chicago

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    6
    Peak
    5
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    6

Notable Births

Clint Lowery

1971Clint Lowery, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]

Clint Edward Lowery is an American musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist in the rock band Sevendust. He has also played in Dark New Day and Still Rain, and served as the touring guitarist for Korn and Seether through most of 2007 and 2017, respectively. In 2008, he decided to work on new music as a solo artist, and the name of the project was titled Hello Demons Meet Skeletons. Lowery wrote and recorded a six-song EP while off the road with Sevendust, just for a week. He played every instrument on the CD, which was produced by his brother Corey Lowery. The EP, Chills, was released in October, followed by a tour at the same month. He would also later release two more EPs with HDMS. Also his fourth and last EP, Choices, was released in 2013.

Notable Deaths

Paul Lévy (mathematician)

1971Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (born 1886)[†]

Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him.

Historical Context for December 15, 1971

In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]