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President Nixon, in an un usual move, will address the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the opening session of their meet ing in Washington today. Ar ticles examining the issues and the people are on Page 59.
GM develops emission control device its execs believe will meet Govt '75-76 air quality standards; needs cooperation of Fed Govt and oil industry in making device practical reality because some changes in gasoline composition will be necessary to allow device to work; co pres E N Cole will speak to API on changes necessary in gasoline; device, combination of catalytic converters with platinum and palladium catalysts, will be impracticable if lead-free fuels are unavailable because leaded gasoline will poison catalysts; co says it has spent $527-million over 3 yrs and assigned 3,600 employes to meet antipollution goals; still seeks 1 yr extension of deadline for meeting standards to make further tests
Japanese Premier Tanaka arrives in Peking on Sept 24, hoping to end decades of unhappy relations with Communist China through diplomatic ties; Chinese hon guard and reception line of Chinese leaders, headed by Chou En-lai, greet Tanaka at airport; Mil Comm deputy chmn Yeh Chien-ying, Natl People's Cong deputy standing com deputy chmn Kuo Mo-jo and Min Chi Peng-fei are present; Japanese natl anthem is played; Tanaka is driven to State Guest House at Jade Abyss Pool Pk; begins his 1st round of talks with Chou En-lai in great Hall of the People; Chou En-lai to be host at banquet for Tanaka and Japanese Min M Ohira; diplomats in Peking expect Tanaka to make apologetic speech to Chinese people for Japan's past actions; expect Tanaka to be received by Mao Tse-tung; illus of Tanaka and Ohira
Joe Namath threw six touchdown passes and ac counted for 496 yards in leading the New York Jets to a 44‐34 victory over the Colts yesterday at Baltimore. He came within a touchdown of matching the record of seven scoring passes with tosses of 65, 67, 28, 10, 79 and 80 yards.
22 persons, including 10 children, are killed on Sept 24 in crash of privately-owned F-86 airplane (former warplane) into ice cream parlor, Sacramento, Calif; witnesses describe crash; wreckage of craft illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 20, 1972, covering September 25, 1972.
Chicago
Rod Stewart
Cheech & Chong
Leon Russell
Neil Diamond
1972Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Douglas September, is a Canadian musician. He is known for his poetic lyrics, as well as his innovative musical style that blends folk and blues with a caustic modern commentary. As a composer, musician, producer and engineer, September's passion for arranging music from the ordinary every day into a unique auditory experience has evolved into a singular style. His music has been likened to Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, and Tom Waits.
1972Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (born 1936)[†]
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]