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100th anniv of San Francisco cable car noted; 1st cable car started on Nob Hill route on Aug 2, 1873; portfolio of pictures of cars; map of cable car routes; observations by notable natives of city on cars cited
article discusses growing sales of imported cars in Japan; imported car sales during 1st 6 mos of '73 were 53% above '72 period; US autos are in great demand because their prices have been reduced by 20% as result of dollar's devaluation and yen's revaluation; 3,350 US cars, 32% of imports, were sold during 1st 6 mos of '73, compared with 1,321 in '72; some Japanese auto execs comment; illus
author M Croyden article on 15th Cong of Internatl Theater Inst, held in Moscow from May 27 to June 1
MONTREAL, July 28—Tom Weiskopf did not miss many shots today as he took the 54 hole lead in the Canadian open golf championship by one stroke at 208. But he missed, by less than a minute, being engulfed in a thunder storm
Article on home-financing crisis in NYC met area notes that mortgage interest rates are rising to record levels; conventional home mortgages in Conn have been rising to 8 1/2% and even 9%; in NJ, Banking Comr Schaub raised maximum interest rate on conventional home loans to 8%; in attempt to relieve mortgage problems in NY, Gov Rockefeller proposed that NYS Legis give State Banking Bd power to raise home-mortgage interest ceilings above 7 1/2% to adjust to changing market conditions; various brokers in met area comment on slowdown of house sales; mortgage problems noted for rest of country by Natl Assn of Home Builders, which says repts from many secs of nation indicate mortgage lending is slowing almost to stop; tables show sales of previously occupied single-family homes in Northeast, by percentage, in various price categories from May '68 to May '73 compared with sales of previously occupied single-family homes in US for same period
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 1973, covering July 29, 1973.
Chicago
Pink Floyd
George Harrison
Carpenters
Paul Simon
1973Stephen Dorff, American actor and producer[†]
Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat (1994) and then gained further mainstream attention for portraying Deacon Frost in Blade (1998). Other notable lead roles include the titular character in John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000) and Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2010).
1973Denis Urubko, Kazakh mountaineer[†]
Denis Urubko is a Russian-Polish climber. In 2009, as a citizen of Kazakhstan he became the 15th person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders and the 8th person to achieve the feat without supplemental oxygen. He had Soviet citizenship, but after the dissolution of the Soviet Union he became a citizen of Kazakhstan, but renounced the citizenship in 2012. In 2013, he received Russian citizenship and on 12 February 2015 he received Polish citizenship.
1973Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)[†]
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career, including a fifteen-year stint at Melbourne.
1973Roger Williamson, English race car driver (born 1948)[†]
Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands.
1973Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.[†]
A constitutional referendum was held in Greece on 29 July 1973. The amendments would confirm the abolition of the monarchy by the military junta and establish a republic. The proposal was approved by 78.6% of voters with a turnout of 75%.
1973Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.[†]
Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]