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V Canby names 10 worst films of '72; films include Mary, Queen of Scots, Young Winston, The Public Eye, Portnoy's Complaint, A Place Called Today, The War Between Men and Women, Trouble Man, Savage Messiah by K Russel, And Hope To Die, and The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine
Owners of NYC luxury apt bldgs are finding it more difficult to fill vacancies at higher rents allowed by vacancy decontrol; W Moses, chmn of Community Housing Improvement Program, estimates vacancy rate in NYC is currently over 3%, compared with less than 1% in 1971; R Klein, pres of Bronx Realty Advisory Bd, says many tenants cannot afford higher rents and predicts permanent guidelines will be set to stabilize decontrolled rents; another result of decontrol is that tenants are less willing to pay broker's fees; new construction adds to competitiveness of market and highest vacancy rates are in bldgs built since 1947; R Herman, NYS rent admr and asst comr of State Div of Housing and Community Renewal, says open market will work well in NYC and that rents have gone up avg of 20% to 25%; NYC housing officials say rents have soared from 75% in Manhattan to 102% in Queens
Trials of OZ, The: T and J Rado play The Trials of OZ revd by W Kerr
Haiphong officials rept, Jan 5, that recent US air raids virtually razed city's indus zone; says planes made 366 sorties against port area; say 15,000 tons of bombs struck 240 different parts of area, killing 305 people, including 76 children and wounding 882; say 5,800 homes and other bldgs were destroyed; explain relatively low casualty toll by effectiveness of the air-raid shelters and because almost two-thirds of the people were evacuated; observer describes seeing square miles of destroyed areas; officials say B-52s concentrated on outlying indus areas and the suburbs; map
Book Report From Part One, by G Brooks, with Prefaces by D L Lee and G Kent, revd by T C Bambara; G Brooks por
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 1973, covering January 7, 1973.
The Moody Blues
Carole King
Jethro Tull
Al Green
Artist not listed
1973In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.[†]
Mark James Robert Essex was an American serial sniper and black nationalist known as the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleans on December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973. Essex was killed by police in the second armed confrontation.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]