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Syrian Vice Pres and Foreign Min Abdel Halim Khaddam criticizes lifting oil embargo against US, Arab League Conf: indicates that if there is no change in Syria's situation on Golan hts by June 1, he will move to restore embargo (S)
The elegant Sotheby Parke Bernet auction house, normally the market place for the aristocracy of the art world, looked just like a flea market yesterday—which is almost what it was.
Pres Nixon says candidates who support Nixon Adm will have strong case to take to the people in fall â74, speech, Repub fundâraising dinner; for 1st time in memory of longâtime Repubs, no Repub Govs are present for dinner (S)
US and Mexican officials announce March 27 that US vice consul John Patterson, stationed in Mex, has disappeared March 19 and is presumed kidnapped; US Embassy spokesman refuses to disclose when or how diplomat was seized or whether any ransom has been demanded; AP repts that consulate has recd ransom note demanding $500,000; US Atty Gen William Saxbe's cancellation of planned trip to Mex noted; previous kidnappings in â73 and Govt's hardâline policy in later kidnapping in which Dr Anthony Duncan Williams, Hon Consul, was released and Mex industrialist Fernando Aranguren was killed recalled (M)
special prosecutor Nadjari reptdly will insist on unconditional waiver of immunity from NYS Sup Ct Justice Irwin Brownstein and will press for his removal if justice refuses; Brownstein says he will sign and cooperate but wants to speak with his lawyer, James La Rossa, before abandoning his demand that he know in advance what cases Nadjari wants to ask him about; maintains that indicted lawyers Leonard Fusfield and Theodore Rosenberg never discussed murder case with him or any other case, and that he has been unfairly linked to case; Nadjari's office has said that fact that he was asked to appear on same day as indictments was coincidence (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 27, 1974, covering March 28, 1974.
John Denver
Joni Mitchell
Mike Oldfield
Barbra Streisand
Paul McCartney And Wings
1974Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1905)[â ]
Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs "That's All Right" (1946), "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later recorded by Elvis Presley and other artists.
1974Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (born 1905)[â ]
Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930), "Don't Blame Me" (1948), "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935), "You Couldn't Be Cuter" (1938) and "Big Spender" (1966). Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.
1974Françoise Rosay, French actress (born 1891)[â ]
Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[â ]