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Terrence Cardinal Cooke, 4 other adults and 10 deaf children are trapped for more than 1 hr in elevator stalled between 1st and 2d floors of Times Sq bldg; priest and nun inside elevator keep up running acct of rescue effort in sign language to reassure children while maintenance men and police emergency crew work to get elevator cab down 6 ft to st level; illus (M)
Pres Nixon on Apr 8 signs minimum wage law that extends Fed coverage and overtime requirements to most domestic workers; minimum wage for domestics will be $1.90 an hr effective May 1, with increase to $2 on Jan 1 '75, $2.10 on Jan 1 '76 and $2.30 on Jan 1 '77; Nixon expresses concern that law will create some unemployment risks for domestic workers (S)
Brit Prime Min Wilson appears before House of Commons in effort to calm raging pol controversy over property dealings involving his private sec Mrs Marcia Williams and her brother and sister, Anthony and Peggy Field; says Williams is not guilty of any wrongdoing, attacks newspapers for 'sensationalizing' property transactions and denies that he himself was involved in any way; controversy, arising from newspaper repts, has been particularly embarrassing for Wilson because Labor party, during election campaign, attacked 'property speculators' and 'tax havens'; land deal revd; alleged forgery of Wilson signature on lr suggesting that ins broker Ronald Milhench go ahead with Field's land purchase remains unresolved; Wilson says that Anthony Field, who has denied knowledge of forgery, worked for him part-time and drew no salary; Wilson and Williams have filed libel writs against several Brit newspapers for reptg transactions; Wilson, responding to Labor MP William Hamilton's question, elaborates on his earlier distinctions between 'land reclamation' and 'land speculation' (M)
Justice Dept, in significant display of current antitrust policy, takes direct hand in helping Swift & Co, Armour & Co and Cudahy Co, 3 leading meat packers, to diversify in other areas; says it has joined cos in asking Fed Judge Julius J Hoffman to modify 54-yr-old consent decree that cos had signed; Atty Gen Saxbe says proposed modification will become final 30 days after approval; Asst Atty Gen Thomas E Kauper, Swift pres Charles K Olcott and Cudahy chmn Frederick T Barrett comment (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 3, 1974, covering April 9, 1974.
John Denver
Paul McCartney And Wings
Joni Mitchell
Mike Oldfield
Barbra Streisand
1974Megan Connolly, Australian actress (died 2001)[†]
Megan Jennifer Connolly was an Australian actress, mainly of soap opera. She grew up in the northern Sydney suburb of St Ives, New South Wales.
1974Jenna Jameson, American actress and pornographic performer[†]
Jenna Marie Massoli, known professionally as Jenna Jameson, is an American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former pornographic film actress. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn".
1974Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer[†]
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, also known as the Chessboard Killer and the Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer who is believed to have killed at least forty-nine people, and possibly as many as sixty, between 1992 and 2006. Pichushkin was active in Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]