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article, commenting on Pres Nixon's imposition of ceilings on meat prices, holds that ceiling does not directly limit price growers can charge for their livestock
MONTREAL, March 31 —Without. breathing, very hard, the Montreal Canadiens treated the New York Rangers like a bunch of schoolboys today and thumped them, 5‐1.
Protesters rally in front of NYC supermkts on eve of wk‐long nationwide meat boycott; butchers in many areas curtail meat orders for wk by as much as 50%; prices, however, reptdly remain at current levels; boycott organizers express opposition to Pres Nixon's freeze of meat prices at present levels and hope boycott will drive meat prices down; some boycotters indicate that some shoppers are stocking up on meat during wkend to prepare for boycott; NYC Mayor Lindsay announces that meat will not be served in city insts on Apr 5; City Controller A Beame urges wk‐long compliance with boycott in NYC; Repr Abzug visits mkts in her dist urging support for boycott; protests around country described; Abzug illus
B Atkinson tribute to late Sir N Coward; drawing
L Weiner play An Evening With the Poet‐Senator revd by W Kerr
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 28, 1973, covering April 1, 1973.
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Elton John
Diana Ross
Deodato
John Denver
1973Christian Finnegan, American comedian and actor[†]
Fletcher Christian Finnegan, better known as Christian Finnegan, is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City.
1973Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer and coach[†]
Stephen Paul Fleming is a cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team. He was a left-handed opening batter and an occasional right arm slow medium bowler. He is New Zealand's second-most capped Test cricketer with 111 appearances. He is also the team's longest-serving and most successful captain with 28 test victories and led the team to win the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the team's first International Cricket Council trophy. Fleming captained New Zealand in the first ever Twenty20 International against Australia in 2005.
1973Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author[†]
Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor. Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010.
1973Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.[†]
Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered tiger. The project was initiated in 1973 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India. As of March 2025, there are 58 protected areas that have been designated as tiger reserves under the project. As of 2023, there were 3,682 wild tigers in India, which is almost 75% of the world's wild tiger population.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]