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co's appropriation of certain amt of 1st qr profits to offset possible retroactive increases in foreign crude oil discussed; suggestion that lower reptg of 1st qr profits was advisable in light of oil co criticism noted (M)
gang of armed art thieves directed by young woman raids gold-mining millionaire Sir Alfred Beit's mansion, Blessington, Ireland, and takes masterpieces valued at $20.4-million; art sources say that robbery is believed to be largest ever; detectives theorize that masterpieces may have been stolen in bid to trade them for jailed IRA members; robbery detailed (M)
guerrilla groups in Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) and Angola greet mil coup in Portugal with pledges to step up efforts against authorities (S)
NYS Sen has voted to double current budget for State Council on the Arts and Assemblyman Perry B Duryea says on April 27 that he favors even larger increase; Sen restores $11.5-million that Legis had previously cut from proposed $30.5-million budget; larger counties, in addition to minimum per capita grants, will receive supplemental appropriations; Sen bill sponsors rept that this will mean that Manhattan will receive more than $7.7-million it recd in '73; Duryea says that bills are directed toward greater community involvement in arts; 8 upstate counties, Allegheny, Clinton, Fulton, Genesee, Orleans, Schuyler, Wyoming and Yates, which recd no appropriations during last fiscal yr from council will be receiving funds next yr (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 24, 1974, covering April 27, 1974.
Chicago
John Denver
Soundtrack
Paul McCartney And Wings
Mike Oldfield
1974Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player[†]
Frank John Catalanotto is an American baseball coach and former infielder and left fielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Hofstra Pride. Catalanotto played professional baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1997–1999), the Texas Rangers, the Toronto Blue Jays (2003–2006), the Milwaukee Brewers (2009) and the New York Mets (2010). In his career, Catalanotto played all infield and outfield positions except shortstop and center field. He then went on to be the head baseball coach of the NYIT Bears (2019–2020) and Hofstra Pride (2022–present), leading the latter program to its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2022.
1974109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.[†]
On 27 April 1974, an Aeroflot Il-18 airliner crashed while operating a charter flight from Leningrad to Zaporizhzhia, continuing to Krasnodar, Russia. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Pulkovo Airport in Leningrad. None of the 109 people on board survived. The engine fire was caused by the uncontained failure of a faulty compressor disk.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]