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NY Times survey finds spasmodic compliance by NYC met area retail stores with Fed Govt order requiring prominent display of ‘base period’ price lists; findings detailed; illus
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NYS Assembly Minority Leader Steingut and Sen Minority Leader Zaretzki ask for assurances of minimal appropriations for educ and other services in return for their support of tax bill; are asking that state aid be not less than $2.5‐billion for educ
Yonkers Teachers Fed stages strike that union and school adm officials agree is 90% effective; schools remain officially open but attendance is sparse, especially in hss; spot check shows students leaving schools, when it was apparent that adm's plans for use of nonunion personnel did not materialize; both sides remain apart on bargaining issues; Supt Alioto says only remaining issue to be discussed is salary and that tentative agreement has been reached on other issues; union pres Tice disputes Alioto's statement, says no issues have been settled; Educ Bd intends to invoke Taylor Law prohibiting strikes by public employes but Alioto says he will ask specifically that no members of union by jailed for violating law; illus
3‐judge Fed ct orders drastic reapportionment of Ala Legis; rules that county lines must be ignored as pol boundaries if necessary to gain equal representation for all dists; citizens’ orgn, including group of Negroes, filed suit; orgn attys predict ct plan will result in increase in Repub and black representation; ct also rules that each dist must be represented by single member; rejects request that new elections be held immediately rather than waiting until present legislators’ terms expire in ‘74; Ala expected to appeal ruling to US Sup Ct
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 29, 1971, covering January 4, 1972.
Carole King
Led Zeppelin
Cat Stevens
Chicago
Grand Funk Railroad
1972Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.[†]
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray's Inn. She was also the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge, after Elizabeth Lane.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]