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ISPEND eight hours a day on the telephone, which makes about 9,600 hours a year. I have been doing this for the past four years, so I've heard from a great many of you when you call up to make an airline reservation.
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Article on Army Engineers Corps says controversy between Corps and environmentalists stems from deeper issue of how long unbridled econ growth can be sustained in world of finite resources
Comment on events at world ice skating speed champs, Oslo, Norway; illus
An erratic winter storm with a gumshoe gait and capricious moods dumped heavy snow and rain over the metropolitan area yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 1972, covering February 20, 1972.
Don McLean
George Harrison
Carole King
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
1972Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)[â ]
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen for their model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first being Marie Curie in 1903. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.
1972Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (born 1897)[â ]
Walter Winchell was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national celebrity in the 1930s with Hearst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy staccato news briefs, jokes, and Jazz Age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment".
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]