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article on McGovern emerging as problable Dem pres nominee sees his grass roots campaign now facing difficult task of uniting his pol irregulars with Dem establishment they trounced in primaries; cartoon
Amer Shakespeare Festival (Conn) presentation of Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra revd by W Kerr
Penn Central trustee J Langdon Jr int on rr's future; says rr is not unmanageable, differences of opinion between trustees and rr Pres W Moore are 'not serious,' and rr's present business situation is 'uninspired'; notes definitive reorganization plan will be filed in April '73; Langdon illus
PENNSYLVANIA—At least 40 dead, 13 missing, 250, 000 homeless. Damage estimated at more than $1‐billion. Damage most severe in Harrisburg, Wilkes‐Barre, Blooms burg along flooded Susquehanna. Flooding Monongahela and Allegheny join to form Ohio at Golden Triangle of Pittsburgh.
THE mounting concern over rising prices for meat and other foods in the United States and the sudden, dramatic action of Britain in floating the pound sterling last week diverted the atten tion of the business and economic community from the domestic economy and the securities markets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 1972, covering June 25, 1972.
The Rolling Stones
Jethro Tull
Roberta Flack
Janis Joplin
The Chi-lites
1972Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach[†]
Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball primarily as a first baseman, from 1993 to 2009, most prominently as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, where he was a member of the 1993 World Series-winning team, won the 2000 American League (AL) Hank Aaron Award, and was the 2003 AL RBI leader. He was also a two-time AL All-Star player and a three-time Silver Slugger Award winner during his tenure with the Blue Jays.
1972Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan engineer and politician[†]
Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi is a Libyan political figure. He is the second son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife Safia Farkash. He was a part of his father's inner circle, performing public relations and diplomatic roles on his behalf. He publicly turned down his father's offer of the country's second highest post and held no official government position. According to United States Department of State officials in Tripoli, during his father's reign, he was the second most widely recognized person in Libya, being at times the de facto prime minister, and was mentioned as a possible successor, though he rejected this. An arrest warrant was issued for him on 27 June 2011 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for charges of crimes against humanity against the Libyan people, for killing and persecuting civilians, under Articles 7(1)(a) and 7(1)(h) of the Rome statute. He denied the charges.
1972Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (born 1890)[†]
Jan Matulka was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style ranged from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day. He has directly influenced artists like Dorothy Dehner, Francis Criss, Burgoyne Diller, I. Rice Pereira, and David Smith.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]