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US BLS repts Oct unemployment rate for women has changed little from previous mo; says participation rate for women declined to 45.3% from July peak of 46% (S)
Mayor Beame warns NYC agencies they will have less money to spend on new construction in fiscal '76 than in any of last 7 yrs; advises agencies to rehabilitate facilities they now occupy before seeking funds to build anything new; issues annual certification of amt that will be available for expenditure on capital projects in fiscal '76; sets figure at $1.36-billion; adds that when sums that must be set aside for various mandatory reserves are deducted $635-million will be available for actual outlays on bldg projects; Beame message, latest of several exhortations on need for munic belt-tightening, is addressed to City Planning Comm, which must draft capital budget for coming fiscal yr by early Dec; current capital budget totals $1.76-billion (L)
Article on resettling of Turkish Cypriotes in Greek areas of Cyprus examines changes that have occurred since Turkish occupation of Cyprus last summer and pol and soc difficulties refugees may encounter (L)
Pres Ford's visit to former Pres Nixon at Memorial Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach, Calif, demonstrates how burden of Watergate continues to cling to new Pres and party he is attempting to save almost 3 mos after he succeeded to office; Houston I Flournoy, Repub candidate for Gov in Calif, comments; Calif Repub leaders attribute Flournoy's campaign troubles almost exclusively to White House and Watergate (M)
Announcement of $6.6-billion redevelopment proposal for Harlem, NYC, is being shelved until after election; city and state have made commitments of $2-million each to implement proposal which calls for construction of 33,000 new housing units and rehabilitation of about 18,000 units, the development of about 5-million sq ft of commercial and indus facilities and 1-million sq ft of community facilities; Edward J Logue, pres of NYS Urban Development Corp, says among factors acctg for delay are difficulties in working out areas of responsibility between city and state; implementation of plans depends on massive infusion of capital into Harlem including mortgage funds of about $2-billion in addition to $2-billion in subsidies and $320-million in Govt funds to relocate tenants and prepare land for use (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1974, covering November 2, 1974.
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
Carole King
Barry White
John Lennon
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
1974Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player[†]
Orlando Luis Cabrera Ramírez, nicknamed "O-Cab" and "the OC", is a Colombian-American former baseball infielder.
1974Nelly, American rapper[†]
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and embarked on his musical career in 1993 as a member of the Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics. He signed with Universal Records as a solo act in 1999 to release his debut studio album, Country Grammar (2000). Its two lead singles, "Country Grammar " and "Ride wit Me",, both entered the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked atop the Billboard 200 and received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His second album, Nellyville (2002), spawned two consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma", along with the top-five single, "Air Force Ones".
1974Prodigy, American rapper (died 2017)[†]
Albert Johnson, known professionally as Prodigy, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for being in the rap duo Mobb Deep along with Havoc, yet Johnson still had a solo career, regularly collaborating with producer The Alchemist. Johnson released eight albums during his career in Mobb Deep as well as five solo studio albums.
1974Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (died 2011)[†]
Ruslan Albertovich Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]