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US Sen H E Hughes, Iowa Dem, announces on Sept 6 that he will leave Sen when his first term expires in '74 to accept 'compelling commitment' to do religious work; announcement prompts Repr J C Culver of Second Cong Dist to release statement asserting that he is 'extremely interested' in making Sen race
The State Public Service Commission announced yester day that it had granted $164.5‐million of the $183‐million increase in electricity rates requested by the Consolidated Edison Company. This is $69.2‐million above the temporarily increased rates now in effect.
Pres Nixon expresses regret that Repr Mills has undergone surgery for ruptured spinal disk and will be incapacitated for some wks; says if Mills had sought his advice, he would have urged him not to have operation as he has never known 1 that was successful
S Cady comments on incidents that led to FBI superfecta probe says that a mystery woman, so beautiful that she made heads turn in OTB shops, helped call attention to questionable betting patterns that touched off probe; OTB security personnel noticed her cashing multiple superfecta tickets at various OTB branches throughout city; presumbably woman was a so-called '10-percenter' cashing tickets for other people in higher income tax brackets for a fee; sources close to investigation say that winning tickets were cashed mostly at OTB because it was 'easier to get lost' at betting parlors; illus of sign at Yonkers showing record superfecta payoff of $111,912
Official of Sen Watergate com confirms Washington Post's rept that Pres Nixon once directed Secret Service to monitor telephone conversations of his brother F D Nixon; says com's investigators obtained same information from White House employe; says matter is not being pursued by com because it appears to be outside com's specific jurisdiction and only confirms pattern 'we already knew existed'; illus of F D Nixon
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1973, covering September 7, 1973.
The Allman Brothers Band
Chicago
Pink Floyd
Cat Stevens
Grand Funk Railroad
1973Shannon Elizabeth, American model and actress[†]
Shannon Elizabeth Fadal is an American actress and poker player. Her film roles solidified her status as a sex symbol of the 1990s and 2000s.
1973Alex Kurtzman, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing The Mummy (2017). He made his directorial debut with People Like Us (2012), co-written alongside Orci and Jody Lambert.
1973Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (born 1900)[†]
Holling Clancy Holling was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada.
1973Lev Vladimirsky, Kazakhstani-Russian admiral (born 1903)[†]
Lev Anatolevich Vladimirsky, was a Soviet naval officer and an Admiral (1954).
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]