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March 27, 1972

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Headlines from March 27, 1972

Hartke Quits Race

By Unknown Author

Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana withdrew yesterday from the race for the Demo cratic Presidential nomina tion and endorsed Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. Mean while, a survey of the first 340 elected delegates to the Democratic National Conven tion showed that the party's reform rules were falling short of their goals in regard to representation for women, youth and minorities. Other political news, Page 24.

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The Einstein Papers: Childhood Showed a Gift for the Abstract

By Walter Sullivan

NY Times series illuminating life and studies of A Einstein based on his collected manuscripts and letters slated for publication by Princeton Univ Press, now housed at Inst for Advanced Study; collection, comprised of Einstein's letters and tech notebooks, will provide historians with a rich primary source of investigation; biog of scientist by sister Dr M Winteler-Einstein, written in '24 and formerly unseen, is sole extant source on Einstein's childhood; she recalls his violent temper and retrospectively attributes Einstein's early habit of repeating each spoken sentence silently to his capacity for precision, which did not prevent one of his early teachers from mumbling that 'nothing good' would come of the boy; illus of Einstein with sister Maja and in school; Harvard Univ Prof Dr G Holton, reflecting on Einstein's early reticence in speech, hails it as catalyst that prompted extraordinary capacity for non-verbal conceptualization that was responsible for liberating him from contemporary and mundane thought processes; notes additional forces germaine to the maturation of Einstein's ability to think abstractly and independently, including his uncle's challenge of mathematical puzzles and gifts of a steam engine, compass and geometry text; illus of text and Einstein letter containing drawing of steam engine; Holton repts Einstein concluded in remark to friend that his own thought 'did not come in any verbal formulation' but in 'physical entities before there is any connection with logical construction in words'; illus of Einstein in studio

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I. R. A. IN ULSTER APPEARS TO EASE TERRORIST PLANS

By Bernard Weinraub Special to The New York Times

IRA provisional wing is apparently scaling down terrorist activities as result of Brit takeover of Ulster, despite division within wing between those in Irish Repub and those in Ulster over tactics; provisionals in Ulster have decided to defy order from Dublin command to continue bombings and sniper attacks in Ulster; sources say key members of orgn in Ulster are angry with provisional leader S MacStiofain, who publicly denounced Brit action without consulting staff officers in Ulster; IRA official and provisional wing differ sharply in ideology; official wing members are Marxist-oriented and believe that Irish unity, although essential, is secondary to socialist revolution in both north and south; more militant provisionals feel terror is catalyst necessary to unite north and south; Cath community in Ulster, which welcomes end of Prot Govt, is reptdly pressing IRA to end violence temporarily and call truce; IRA members in Belfast hold any continuation of violence would be against wishes of supporters; some IRA officials privately say MacStiofain has failed to guage impact on Cath community of downfall of prov Parliament; others are convinced change of tactics is necessary to cope with possible Prot backlash against Caths as result of Brit takeover; many want to emphasize defensive tactics in Cath areas bordering on Prot areas; Brit Army officials do not rule out possibility of random acts of terrorism during take-over by Brit Govt; crucial issue in Cath community remains internment; Caths will probably renew anger against Brit if internment continues; many Caths feel further violence is likely; illus of bombed Belfast factory

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 22, 1972, covering March 27, 1972.

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    Album cover for America by America

    America

    America

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    Peak
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    Album cover for Harvest by Neil Young

    Harvest

    Neil Young

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    1
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    Album cover for Baby I'm-A Want You by Bread

    Baby I'm-A Want You

    Bread

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    3
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    8
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    Album cover for Nilsson Schmilsson by Nilsson

    Nilsson Schmilsson

    Nilsson

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    4
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    Album cover for Paul Simon by Paul Simon

    Paul Simon

    Paul Simon

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Notable Births

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

1972Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer, coach, and manager[†]

Jerrel Floyd "Jimmy" Hasselbaink is a Dutch professional football manager and former player.

Charlie Haas

1972Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler[†]

Charles Doyle Haas II is an American professional and former amateur wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2000 to 2009 and Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2010 to 2013. In WWE he was a member of Team Angle, which later became a Tag Team duo with Shelton Benjamin known as "The World's Greatest Tag Team".

Notable Deaths

1972Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (born 1926)[†]

Lorenzo Christopher Wright was an American athlete. A Detroit native, he started at Miller High School and Wayne State University; Wright is renowned for his noteworthy track and field accomplishments.

Historical Context for March 27, 1972

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