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January 19, 1972

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Headlines from January 19, 1972

Army Tightens Training; Jogging Is In, Beer Is Out

By B. Drummond Ayres Jr. Special to The New York Times

Army, after about a year's experimentation in liberalizing and easing basic training in effort to attract more volunteers, has decided to return to rigorous type of recruit training; beer has been removed from barracks, which will be no longer divided into private cubicles; Army will not reinstitute reveille formations and will continue to give recruits weekend passes during final mo of training; other training program revisions noted

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Job Market Is Improving For the College Graduate

By Unknown Author

Coll Placement Council survey shows that after 2 yrs of sharp decline in job mkt, a 5% increase in hiring, across the bd, in all disciplines at all degree levels is anticipated warns that some grads in some areas of country may be faced with even bleaker prospects than last yr despite gen upturn; situations in various fields discussed

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8 INDICTED BY CITY IN LOAN SCANDALS

By Edith Evans Asbury

NYC Munic Loan Fund ex-dir L A Reiter is indicted by NY County grand jury on charge of extorting $9,300 from contractor and 7 borrowers are charged with defrauding city of $842400; 2 of borrowers, G and M Weintraub, were largest borrowers from Munic Loan Program; indictments are announced by Dist Atty Hogan, who began probe of program last Oct; all 8 defendants plead not guilty, State Sup Ct; are released on their own recognizance; defendants listed; Reiter illus

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Auschwitz Gas Chambers' Designer on Trial in Vienna

By Unknown Author

W Dejaco, who designed gas chambers and cremation furnaces in Auschwitz, Nazi death camp in Poland, and his former aide F K Ertl go on trial, Vienna, Austria, charged with direct complicity in premeditated murder of 3-million Eur Jews between '41 and '45; both defendants plead not guilty; indictment against Dejaco detailed; trial is 1st in Austria involving Auschwitz; prosecution's case has been largely provided from trials in Frankfurt, W Ger, and S Wiesenthal of Jewish Documentation Center; illus of Dejaco and Ertl in ct

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Congress, Back With Heavy Schedule, Is Off to a Fast Start

By John W. Finney Special to The New York Times

Repr B Abzug, joined by a few Dem doves, offers resolution to censure Nixon for disregarding amendment passed by Cong in '71 declaring it to be the policy of the US to withdraw all its forces expeditiously from Indochina, subject to the release of US POWs; move sets off demonstration from some 250 members of Women Strike for Peace in HR gallery; women ushered from gallery

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 19, 1972, covering January 19, 1972.

  1. 1
    Album cover for American Pie by Don McLean

    American Pie

    Don McLean

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Concert For Bangla Desh by George Harrison

    The Concert For Bangla Desh

    George Harrison

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Music by Carole King

    Music

    Carole King

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Chicago At Carnegie Hall by Chicago

    Chicago At Carnegie Hall

    Chicago

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    11
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    Album cover for Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin IV

    Led Zeppelin

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    9

Notable Births

Drea de Matteo

1972Drea de Matteo, American actress[†]

Andrea Donna de Matteo is an American actress who is best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva on the television drama The Sopranos (1999–2006), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2004. Other notable roles include Gina Tribbiani on Joey (2004–2006), Wendy Case on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), Angie Bolen on Desperate Housewives (2009–2010), and Detective Tess Nazario on Shades of Blue (2016–2018).

Yoon Hae-young

1972Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress[†]

Yoon Hae-young is a South Korean actress. She began acting after passing the SBS Open Auditions in 1993, and has starred in television dramas such as See and See Again (1998), This Is Love (2001), Elephant (2008), The Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon, Special Task Force MSS (2011) and I Like You (2012).

1972Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach[†]

Sergei Zjukin is an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 2000.

Notable Deaths

1972Michael Rabin, American violinist (born 1936)[†]

Michael Rabin was an American violinist. He has been described as "one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation".

Historical Context for January 19, 1972

In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]