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Vice Pres Maria Estela Martinez de Peron becomes Acting Pres of Argentina on June 29 as husband Juan Domingo Peron lies seriously ill with what is described as infectious bronchitis with heart complications; details (M)
comment on Nixon-Brezhnev current Moscow talks and on issues involved; 2 leaders illus; (M)
Article on Dorothy and Richard Turmail who purchased livery stable in Cobble Hill sec of Bklyn and renovated it into residence; details of renovation; illus of exterior and interior; por of Turmails (L)
Partisan conflicts in HR Judiciary Com, which brought White House call for Com Chmn Repr P W Rodino's ouster, are described as advance warning signs of coming pol eruption in Cong over impeachment; Cong authorities say com disputes are precursors of intense pol pressures that will accompany debate as to whether Pres Nixon's conduct in office would warrant Sen trial on charges of const crimes that would, upon conviction, lead to his removal from office; disputes described; pol factors likely to influence tone and conduct of final stages of HR impeachment proceedings, according to Dem and Repub HR officials, are: efforts by sr HR Repubs to persuade colleagues that some step short of impeachment would be sufficient to deal with Watergate and related scandals without jeopardizing Repub Congressmen's own pol futures; pressure by HR Dem leaders for acceleration of com's inquiry to meet schedule calling for HR vote on impeachment on Aug 23, thus satisfying apparent public desires to resolve issue without further delay; White House attempts to discredit com's eventual findings by characterizing them as product of what White House communications dir Kenneth W Clawson describes as 'witch hunt'; 1 indication of nature of developing pol struggle over Nixon's future was series of repts that conservative Repubs in Cong had begun discussing possible vote to censure Nixon as alternative to impeachment; Reprs J J Rhodes, T P O'Neill Jr, E Mezvinsky comment; White House's role in impeachment inquiry and presentation of evidence to com by James D St Clair discussed (L)
W Kerr comments on recent plays that have poked fun at Nixon Adm; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 26, 1974, covering June 30, 1974.
Gordon Lightfoot
Paul McCartney And Wings
Soundtrack
Cat Stevens
John Denver
1974Katrin Auer, Austrian politician[†]
Katrin Auer is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Traunviertel since October 2024.
1974Hezekiél Sepeng, South African runner[†]
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng, is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996, the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999. He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for nandrolone.
1974Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (born 1904)[†]
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.
1974The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.[†]
The 1974 Baltimore municipal strike was a strike action undertaken by different groups of municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was initiated by waste collectors seeking higher wages and better conditions. They were joined by sewer workers, zookeepers, prison guards, highway workers, recreation & parks workers, animal control workers, abandoned vehicles workers, and eventually by police officers. Trash piled up during the strike, and, especially with diminished police enforcement, many trash piles were set on fire. City jails were also a major site for unrest.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]