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Sen, on Sept 29, votes to extend Medicare coverage for eye care to individuals with incomes of under $3,000 ($5,000 for couples)
Met Museum, in unusual action, has sold 2 of its modern masterpieces, Van Gogh's The Olive Pickers and Rousseau's Monkeys in the Jungle; museum dir Hoving confirms sales, which took place 6 mos ago, in response to repts that 2 paintings had reappeared on mkt; defends museum's action on ground that proceeds were used to improve balance of collection; cites recent acquisition of work by Carracci and other masterpieces; buyer of 2 works is reptd to be Italian industrialist G Agnielli; illus of Rousseau work
Commerce Dept officials say on Sept 29 that US taxpayer might have to pay $50-million over next 3 yrs to subsidize US ship owners for carrying grain to USSR; note estimate is based on difference between current world charter rate of about $8 per ton and avg of $21 per ton representing full cost to shippers; officials say subsidy may have to be paid on nearly 3.5-million tons at $13 per ton if sufficient US shipping is available; note amt may be reduced if, in current negotiations for maritime agreement, USSR agrees to pay rates above world charter prices as US has insisted
one NYC official is discharged and another suspended on Sept 29 for allegedly urging job applicants at HDA to lie about their addresses in order to take advantage of emergency hiring program for residents of poverty areas; eight HDA employes hired under emergency employment program are ousted on charges that they had given false addresses; Deputy Mayor Hamilton discloses that T Reich, dir of program at HDA, has been suspended and will face charges of violating Civil Service law; Reich was permanent Civil Service employe paid $14,300 a yr; Hamilton states that K Hewitt, $12,000-a-yr dir of central operations for maximum-base-rent program of Rent and Housing Maintenance Dept, was dismissed; declares case is not one of 'venality in the classical sense' but rather appears to be case of people 'trying to get other people jobs'; A S Sobel, another supervisory official in dept, announced last wk that he had resigned after being questioned by Investigation Comr Ruskin; Hamilton contends Sobel was dismissed; notes investigation into hiring of approximately 3,000 city employes under emergency employment program is continuing; other discharged employes are S Althaus, A Fowler, P Gresham, F Martin, K Nelson, W Saller, M Williams and J V Yankow
Mayor Lindsay on Sept 29 announces easing of job freeze for NYC Police, Fire and Sanitation Depts; directs dept heads to develop plans immediately to put additional uniformed men on sts and replace them with civilian employes; asserts that over-all job freeze will continue but that he wants uniformed forces to make maximum use of trained personnel by freeing them from clerical tasks
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 1972, covering September 30, 1972.
Chicago
Cheech & Chong
Rod Stewart
Leon Russell
Emerson| Lake & Palmer
1972Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster[â ]
Jamal Sharif Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Falcons in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL draft. He played high school football at El Camino Real High School, where he was named to the CIF Los Angeles City Section 4-A All-City first-team in 1989. He went on to play college football at Moorpark College for the Moorpark College Raiders before playing for the Utah Utes.
1972Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (died 2019)[â ]
Ari Mikael Behn was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess MĂ€rtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, and he remained a private citizen during the marriage.
1972John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter[â ]
Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994 as Burn the Priest, the group consists of bassist John Campbell, vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, and drummer Art Cruz. The band is considered a significant member of the new wave of American heavy metal movement.
1972JosĂ© Lima, Dominican baseball player (died 2010)[â ]
JosĂ© Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros (1997â2001), Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers (2004) and New York Mets (2006). His best year in the majors was 1999, when he won 21 games for the Astros and pitched in his only All-Star Game.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]