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His Presidential candidacy alive but hardly healthy after the Florida primary, Mayor Lindsay said yesterday that his immediate job was to raise.. least $300,000 to wage an effective campaign in the Wisconsin primary less than three weeks away.
studies of SEC records and testimony from Sen com hearings on Beard memo indicate at least 8 ITT officers and dirs sold more than $1.5‐million in corp's stock immediately before co's settlement of antitrust cases with Justice Dept and immediately after key private communications between co and Govt officials; ITT maintains proximity of sale dates to meetings resulted from coincidence or clerical error; SEC record of sales repts ITT vp W R Merriam sold 1,000 of his 3,500 stock shares May 13 ‘71, 1 day after ITT pres Geneen committed ITT to help finance Repub Natl conv in San Diego; repts 14 days later vp J Seath sold 2,200 stock shares; says sr vp H J Aibel sold 2,664 shares on June 18, 1 day after corp was privately informed by Justice Dept officials that Govt would settle antitrust action out of ct; repts ITT dir H V Williams sold 8,500 shares on July 6,7 and 8; repts in mid‐July, 2 wks before public announcement of ITT settlement, ITT dir H Perry sold 2,000 shares, sec J J Navin sold 1,500, vp F J McCabe, 3,000 shares, sr vp H C Knortz, 5,000 shares; says Geneen sold 55,000 shares in late Aug and early Sept
US Fed Reserve Bd repts Feb indus production rose 0.7% above Jan and brought production index rise since Nov ‘71 to 1.8%
FCC plans to make public recommendations by its staff to allow several private cos to set up 1st US domestic satellite systems; repts systems could improve TV and phone service; says cost of complete system, including satellite is estimated at $60 to $100‐million; cos filing for complete systems listed
coalition of Sen Repubs and Southern Dems succeeds in killing legis that would have established natl system of voter regis by postal card; Sen adopts, 46‐42, motion by Sen Allen to table bill after wk's debate; bill would also have reduced residence requirement to 30 days for all Fed elections; opposition contended that proposal would lead to voter fraud and impinge on states const right to determine voter qualifications; defeat seen result of Dem absenteeism; of 12 absent Sens, 10 were Dems including 8 who would have supported bill; 8 include Dem Pres apsirants Sens Humphrey, Jackson and Muskie; Repubs, noting they could win due to absenteeism, spurn last‐min Dem attempts at compromise
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1972, covering March 16, 1972.
Neil Young
America
Don McLean
Yes
Nilsson
1972Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner[†]
Ismaïl Sghyr is a French-Moroccan long-distance runner. He won a bronze medal at the over 3000 metres at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In 5000 metres he finished fourth at the World Championships the same year, as well as winning a bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships. Over 10,000 metres he won at the 1997 Mediterranean Games.
1972Pie Traynor, American baseball player (born 1898)[†]
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was an American third baseman, manager, scout and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career between 1920 and 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Traynor had a .320 career batting average, batting over .300 ten times with seven seasons with over 100 runs batted in (RBI). With home runs limited by playing in Forbes Field, the most difficult park for power hitting in the National League (NL), he compensated by reaching double digits in triples eleven times, leading the league in 1923. He batted .346 in the 1925 World Series to help the Pirates take their first championship in 16 years.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]