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In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]
1972Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter[†]
Jenny Cecilia Petrén, professionally known as Jenny Berggren and Jenny from Ace of Base is a Swedish mezzo-soprano singer and former lead singer in the Swedish pop band Ace of Base. Since 1995, she has also been writing songs and performing solo. In 2010, she released her debut album My Story.
1972Claudia Karvan, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Claudia Karvan is an Australian actress and producer. As a child actor, she first appeared in the film Molly (1983) and followed with an adolescent role in High Tide (1987). She portrayed a teacher in The Heartbreak Kid (1993) – the film was spun off into a TV series, Heartbreak High (1994–1999), with her character taken over by Sarah Lambert. Karvan's roles in television series include The Secret Life of Us (2001–2005), Love My Way (2004–2007), Newton's Law (2017) and Halifax: Retribution (2020). She won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards for her appearance in G.P. (1996). She won two similar AFI Awards for her role in Love My Way and in 2014 for her work in The Time of Our Lives (2013–2014). As a co-producer and co-writer on Love My Way, she won three further AFI Awards for Best Drama Series in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Karvan was inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame in 2007 in acknowledgment of her contributions to the Australian film and television industry. From 2010 to 2011, she starred in the drama series Spirited, which she co-created and was executive producer. She appeared as Judy Vickers in Puberty Blues. Karvan has co-produced House of Hancock and Doctor Doctor (2016–2021). In 2021 she co-created, co-produced and starred in the TV drama series, Bump.
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WASHINGTON, May 18 —In a case of potentially major importance to Japanese‐United States trade and to American consumers, the Treasury announced today it was investigating whether a whole series of Japanese Government tax and other incentives to exports of consumer electronic products, such is television sets, constituted an illegal subsidy.
Attempt to close gap in NYC fiscal '73 expense budget may result in munic employe layoffs
Investigators into shooting of Gov Wallace rept A H Bremer, suspect, was exhausted from trailing Wallace and had little money; search of car reveals second pistol, books on assassination of R F Kennedy, special radio to pick up police broadcasts, and notebooks; Bremer is reptd alternately subdued and angry in Baltimore county jail
Price Comm announces May 18 new rent rules effective July 1 and retroactive to Dec 29; under new regulations landlords must offer tenants 1-yr lease with 8% ceiling on increases wherever old lease was longer than 1 yr; tenant may elect to accept new lease of 1 yr or more at a rental allowed by existing regulations which generally limit annual increases to 2.5% plux cost of capital improvements and taxes; new regulations will affect about 5% of all rental housing in US
Cunard SS Co NY official C Dickson repts receiving telephone threat on May 17 warning that 2 accomplices on board Queen Elizabeth 2, en route to Cherbourg from NY with 1,500 passengers and crew of 800, will set off 6 explosives unless $350,000 ransom in $10 and $20 bills is paid; upon receiving notification of threat, RAF flies 4 bomb-disposal experts to site in mid-Atlantic, Brit Defense Min dispatches reconnaissance aircraft to provide communications link between ship and GB and orders parachutists to be dropped near liner; ship's master Capt W J Law meanwhile tries to isolate 2 passengers matching caller's description of ex-convict and terminal cancer victim who allegedly were prepared to set off explosion at risk of own lives; informs passengers of threat and repts on May 18 that investigation of ship by bomb experts reveals nothing; Cunard chmn V Matthews admits possibility of hoax but adds that as security precautions on board ship were virtually non-existent, no risks could be taken; adds he is awaiting instructions on where to deliver ransom, saying the FBI is standing by in Cunard's NY office; illus of passenger L Stokowski, bomb expert Lieut R Clifford, Capt W J Law and Queen Elizabeth 2; map locating Queen's position
WASHINGTON, May 18—The last two Soviet freighters reported approaching Haiphong have been diverted to other ports, Administration officials said today.
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J V Kenny, leader of Hudson County Dem orgn for over 20 yrs, pleads guilty in Fed ct on May 18 to 6 counts of income tax evasion; was indicted in '70 for income tax evasion, conspiracy and bribery along with several Hudson County pol leaders; trial was delayed because of illness; Kenny faces possible $5,000 fine or 3 yrs in prison or both for each count; despite illness and weakening of Hudson County machine, Kenny still wields considerable power; Kenny appears in wheechair accompanied by his nurse, doctor and atty Van Riper; reads 3-page statement admitting guilt; Kenny allegedly drew salary of $393,000, '66-68, and reptd annual income of between $6,000 and $24,506; later sold securities that netted $27,851 profit and gave grandchildren bearer bonds totaling over $700,000; Judge Shaw schedules sentencing for May 23; US Atty Stern refuses comment on what will happen regarding bribery and conspiracy charges; Kenny illus
telephone caller to NY Post, May 19, calling about explosion in a sec of the Pentagon, Washington, says 'we are reacting at a time when growing US air and naval shelling are being carried out against the Vietnamese'; cites mining of N Vietnamese harbors and US plans for 'even more escalation'
2 robbers steal 4 paintings valued at over $1-million from Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass, on May 17 and flee after shooting guard P J Evans who tried to question them; FBI and Customs Bur officials join internatl search for paintings, a Rembrandt, 2 Gauguins and a Picasso; paintings illus; museum dir R S Teitz says 1 of paintings, Rembrandt's St Bartholomew, is worth over $450,000; says all 4 paintings have been so widely reproduced in standard reference books that no reputable art dealer could fail to recognize them as stolen property
NJ Sen on May 18 gives final legis passage to modified no-fault auto ins bill that is expected to be signed by Gov Cahill and become law Jan 1; bill, which provides more liberal benefits than plans adopted in other states, was not subjected to opposition by trial lawyers that led to defeat of 2 NYS bills; NJ Ins Dept official P K Stem calls bill 'grand compromise'; lobbyists for ins cos tried unsuccessfully to line up support in Sen to delete provisions that mandate 15% reduction in personal injury premiums and prohibit policy cancellations unless approved by NJ Ins Comr-Reform in Civil Litigation Com head M J Breslin Jr and People for Auto Ins Reform chmn S Farber comment; bill detailed
article tracing events that followed Capt W J Law's announcement of bomb threat on board Queen Elizabeth 2 notes passengers' conviviality as they gathered on deck, taking pictures and awaiting the arrival of RAF bomb experts, L M Siler telephone dispatch from ship; notes ship's routine was not at all disturbed during search, although radio-telephone and cable communications were cut off and arrival times at Cherbourg were advanced; some NY residents among passengers listed