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NY Times survey on occupational hazards facing millions of working Amers in light of recent discovery of fatal liver cancer among vinyl chloride workers (M)
Randolph Hearst makes new appeal on Mar 3 for some word from his daughter, TV news conf, asking SLA to allow her to make tape recording or write; illus (M)
Article on plague of pol troubles sweeping W Eur democracies, leaving most govts weakened and some countries without effective govt at all; many problems have econ basis stemming from oil shortage
Sources rept Judge John J Sirica is expected to decide this wk what to do with sealed rept handed down up him Mar 1 by 1 of Watergate grand juries; rept is said to outline grand jury's conclusion that Pres Nixon was involved in conspiracy to cover up Watergate bugging and was accompanied by recommendation that jury's findings and evidence supporting them be turned over to HR Judiciary Com; White House officials say attys are studying possibility of making formal motion before Sirica in effort to block release of grand jury rept on ground that it may contain conclusions prejudicial to Nixon's const rights and privileges; Vice Pres Ford says he has 'reason to believe' Nixon will cooperate with Judiciary Com in providing documents as long as its requests are reasonable, int; John D Ehrlichman says he was not surprised at grand jury's indictments; 5 of his friends have started campaign to raise $150,000 for his legal defense; Sen R C Byrd says grand jury's actions pose serious complications' for Pres by bringing up Watergate cover-up 'to the Oval Office' for 1st time, int, NBC TV program Meet the Press (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 27, 1974, covering March 4, 1974.
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
John Denver
Carly Simon
Love Unlimited
1974Crowbar, American wrestler[†]
Christopher Ford is an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Crowbar, where he was a one time Hardcore Champion, a one time World Tag Team Champion with David Flair and a one time Cruiserweight Champion, which he held jointly with Daffney. He, Jerry Lynn and Christopher Daniels are the only wrestlers in history to have wrestled for World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Ring Of Honor and All Elite Wrestling. He currently performs on the independent circuit either as The Timeless One, Crowbar or Devon Storm.
1974Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer and manager[†]
Mladen Krstajić is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.
1974Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player[†]
Karol Kučera is a Slovak tennis coach and former professional player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open the same year.
1974Ariel Ortega, Argentinian footballer[†]
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito", thus he is called "Burrito Ortega".
1974Tommy Phelps, South Korean-American baseball player and coach[†]
Thomas Allen Phelps is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is currently a coach in the Miami Marlins organization.
1974ICS Vortex, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Simen Hestnæs, better known by his stage name ICS Vortex or simply Vortex, is a Norwegian musician. He is the vocalist of the similarly named band ICS Vortex, the avant-garde metal band Arcturus and the doom metal band Lamented Souls. He is also a vocalist and the bass guitarist to the progressive metal band Borknagar, and the former bass guitarist and clean vocalist for the symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir.
1974David Wagner, American tennis player and educator[†]
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quad division. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand. He is currently ranked number three in the world in singles and number two in doubles.
1974Bill Young, Australian rugby player[†]
Bill Young is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. He played rugby for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition and played for Australia over 40 times.
1974Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (born 1903)[†]
Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a print maker.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]