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NYS Gov Wilson, in Jan 9 speech to Legis, plans to propose new state lottery conducted on daily basis with fast payoffs and choice of bets in attempt to compete more successfully with illegal numbers gambling; present state lottery has slipped from $5‐million a wk to $2‐million since ‘72 (M)
Great literature is like moral leadership: everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. Contemporary writers who threaten to alter us with knowledge and extend us with pleasure and pain seem to pass through a period of ritual resistance from critics. Reviewers whimper that familiar ground is being reworked, that the latest books are not up to the early works (which they had inadvertently neglected to praise at the time), with the implication that this somehow invalidates the whole. During this interregnum, the writer's humanity is stigmatized as indulgence, his discernment as embitterment; he is getting soft, or harsh, or nowhere. Until we submit, at last, to our own enlargement through his intention, revelation and particular
UNIONDALE, LI., Jan. 5—John Bucyk loves the New York Islanders. The Boston Bruins’ left winger positions himself at the corner of the net, just to the right of the New York goalie, waits for his teammates, Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, to get the puck to him and then rams it into the net.
Roper Orgn survey of public reaction to discussion of possible impeachment of Pres Nixon shows little concern over attempted theft of files from office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding by members of White House ‘plumbers,’ unit set up to stop leaks of information after disclosure of Pentagon papers
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 1974, covering January 6, 1974.
Carpenters
Elton John
Jim Croce
The Steve Miller Band
Neil Diamond
1974Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster[†]
Marlon Ordell Anderson is an American former professional baseball second baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six teams, over 12 seasons. He was widely known for his clutch hits, and writers for publications including The New York Times and Newsday had referred to him as one of the best pinch-hitters in the game. Anderson was the hitting coach for the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2018.
1974Daniel Cordone, Argentinian footballer[†]
Carlos Daniel "Lobo" Cordone is a former Argentine professional football player who played as a striker.
1974Paul Grant, American basketball player and coach[†]
Paul Edward Grant is a retired American professional basketball player. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1974David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (born 1896)[†]
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists".
1974In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.[†]
In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
1974Aeroflot Flight H-75 crashes near Mukachevo, killing 24.[†]
Aeroflot Flight H-75 was an aviation accident involving an Antonov An-24B aircraft operated by the Kiev United Aviation Squadron (Aeroflot), which occurred on 6 January 1974 near Mukachevo, resulting in the deaths of all 24 people on board.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]