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Unclogging of Bruckner Interchange begins as traffic moves for 1st time on 2 new viaducts; illus; westbound traffic from Throgs Neck and BronxâWhitestone Bridges will now have clear passage to CrossâBronx Expressway; Admr SidamonâEristoff says interchange has been NYC's worst bottleneck; $68âmillion interchange is scheduled to be in full use by â73
Corporate Information Center of Natl Council of Chs accuses 10 Prot denominations of complicity through their stockholdings in the âirresponsible, immoral and socially injurious actsâ of 29 US corps holding mil contracts; rept, which will be issued in wk, says some denominations have been in forefront of criticism of Vietnam war; rept shows denominations, plus Natl Council itself, have almost $203âmillion invested in cos that in â71 provided more than $10âbillion worth of war materiel; table shows number of defense contractors in which they have invested and mkt value of their holdings; list of 29 corps, their total defense business for â70 and percentage of their total sales constituted by defense contracts
Sen Muskie, announcing his candidacy for Dem Pres nomination, says he does not promise to solve all nation's problems overnight, but to âmake a new beginning'; says that politicians in gen and Pres Nixon in particular have failed to provide Amer's citizens with fulfillment of her promise; says âit would be foolish to blame all nation's ills on present Adm'; Repub Natl Chmn Dole accuses Muskie of âbadâmouthing USA'
MTA doubles tolls on 5 TB&TA bridges and tunnels and more than doubles tolls on 3 other facilities; increase in TB&TA tolls is 1st since Triborough Bridge was opened on July 11, â36; Fed Price Comm permits increases of up to 150%, provided revenues are used for operating expenses of NYCTA and commuter rr lines operated by MTA; list shows increases at TB&TA facilities
MONROVIA, Liberia, Jan. 4 (AP)—Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wearing native dress with bouffant head scarf, tapped her foot to tribal drums today as she watched dancing girls with painted bodies and bare breasts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 5, 1972, covering January 5, 1972.
Carole King
Led Zeppelin
Don McLean
Chicago
Grand Funk Railroad
1972Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[â ]
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas, also known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek singer, actor, businessman and former pole vaulter.
1972US President Richard Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program.[â ]
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and also as a representative and senator from California. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]