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Rev B Graham, at Jan 21 White House worship service, suggests that 10 Commandments should be read in every classroom in US every day so that students will know right from wrong; Chief Justice W Burger warns that idea has come very close to being ruled unconst
Penn Central bankruptcy case discussed in terms of its being 'gravy train' for lawyers, whose rewards stem in part from financial complexity of the bankrupt rr and the activities of those who headed co as it moved toward bankruptcy but primarily from peculiarities of bankruptcy law and of way law is implemented by lawyers, applied by ICC and interpreted by cts; prominent attys comment; involvement of 3 large law firms who act as special counsel to rr, Covington & Burling, Blank Rome Klaus & Comisky, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, noted; roles of Dist Judge J P Fullam and 4 rr trustees, J Langdon Jr, G P Baker, R C Bond, J Wanamaker and W Wirtz, who recently resigned, discussed; R W Blanchette, who trustees picked as their counsel, comments; other prominent attys involved in case noted; how law firm is paid in bankruptcy case detailed; Fullam illus
McGovern lectures at Oxford Univ, Eng; illus with wife in London
Gen Haig confers with Nixon and Kissinger, Jan 21, shortly after returning from Saigon, where he sought approval of peace accord being drawn up in Paris; Haig and Kissinger plan to see Nixon again before Kissinger's scheduled departure for Paris on Jan 22 for what may be final round of talks with Le Duc Tho; technical experts meet again in Paris; joint US-Hanoi announcement Jan 18 said that Kissinger and Tho will resume talks Jan 23 'for the purpose of completing the text of an agreement'; White House silent on any details of Haig's discussions in SE Asia, or on Jan 21 meetings at the White House; Vice Pres Agnew's comments that he is optimistic about an accord soon noted; Sen Jackson says, Jan 20, that an accord had already been reached and all that was left, was the technical matter of putting it into proper language
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 1973, covering January 22, 1973.
Carly Simon
Carole King
War
Artist not listed
Jethro Tull
1973Rogério Ceni, Brazilian footballer[†]
Rogério Ceni is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who is in charge of Bahia. He is considered one of the all-time greatest Brazilian goalkeepers and is recognised by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the goalkeeper to have scored the most goals in the history of football. During the height of his career (2005–2008), he was also recognized as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
1973Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (born 1908)[†]
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson previously represented Texas in Congress for over 23 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1937 to 1949, and then as a U.S. senator from 1949 to 1961.
1973The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
1973The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo Moon landing mission.[†]
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command module.
1973A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.[†]
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan Am began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958. With versions produced until 1979, the 707 is a swept wing quadjet with podded engines. Its larger fuselage cross-section allowed six-abreast economy seating, retained in the later 720, 727, 737, and 757 models.
1973In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.[†]
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]