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Fed Reserve Bd repts on Mar 16 that indus production rose 0.8% in Feb, up from Jan rise of 0.6%, to level 9.8% higher than that of '72 period; says gains were mainly in consumer goods and business equipment; graph
Vincent F. Albano, the Republican leader in Manhattan, has joined in the opposition to former Mayor Robert F. Wagner as the Republican‐Liberal nominee for Mayor. Mr. Albino declared that he would fight for a Republican rather than for Mr. Wagner as the candidate. Page 15.
Nixon Adm on Mar 16 urges Cong to authorize $300-million in new Fed loan guarantees to finance rehabilitation of Amtrak through 78; recommends 14% reduction in 26,300-mi rail network served by corp; proposed cutback, if approved by ICC, would leave number of small communities, as well as cities of Louisville, Ky, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, Nashville, Tenn, and Montgomery, Ala, without passenger service; Transportation Dept, in rept to Cong accompanying its recommendations, asserts that Amtrak has reversed historic decline in passenger service on some routes but says it is too early to determine future of such service in US; threatened routes listed
Mayor Lindsay on Mar 16 announces that NYC will undertake intensive lobbying effort in Legis and across NYS to fight Delafield Comm's proposal that NYS take over city's offtrack betting operations, news conf; says lobbying drive, headed by R A Brown, will focus on cities and communities throughout NYS that have or want to have their own OTB operations, as well as NYS Legis; J H Krumpe, pres of NY Racing Assn, deplores 'pol controversy' over comm's recommendations; says he thinks offtrack betting will generate more revenue for govt under statewide setup proposed by comm; E Jacobs, pres of NY Division of Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Assn, hails comm's finding that purses in NY must now be 'adequate, reasonable and competitive'; Lindsay says that 'charge that OTB is hurting race tracks is nonsense'; figures made available by Thoroughbred Racing Assns for '72 seasons indicate daily attendance at tracks outside NY down 3.3% and daily avg betting handle down 0.2%; Samuels and Lindsay illus
Allied officials rept Communist forces are building up supplies and mil equipment in critical border prov of Tay Ninh NW of Saigon; say they introduced advanced weapons never before seen in area, including USSR-made 130-mm artillery with range of nearly 17 mi; S Vietnamese Col Le Van Thien says that in wartime, such a build-up would indicate preparations for an attack; S Vietnamese Brig Gen Le Van Tu estimates that as many as 100 USSR-made T-54 tanks arrived in Tay Ninh in the last month; thinks Communists could be ready for a division-size attack early in Apr; thinks cease-fire creates a much more difficult situation for S Vietnamese than the truce of '54 did; details on other mil equipment involved in build-up; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 14, 1973, covering March 17, 1973.
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Elton John
Diana Ross
John Denver
Carly Simon
1973Rico Blanco, Filipino singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor[†]
Rico Rene Granados Blanco is a Filipino singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor, endorser and entrepreneur. He began his career as one of the founding members, and served as the chief songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist of the Filipino rock band Rivermaya from 1994 until 2007, and has been a solo artist since 2008.
1973Vance Wilson, American baseball player and manager[†]
Vance Allen Wilson is an American former professional baseball catcher and current coach. He is the third base coach for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played all or parts of eight seasons in MLB. Listed at 5'11" tall and 215 pounds, he batted and threw right-handed during his career.
1973The Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.[†]
The Pulitzer Prizes are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]