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HR and Sen, voting on Dec 3 to override Pres Ford's veto of bill for increased educ benefits for veterans, uphold Ford's veto granting special tax benefits to victims of hurricane Agnes and other '72 disasters; bill contained rider making gen rule of tax law for victims of disasters occurring in '72 (S)
Sen James L Buckley and Claiborne Pell announce that they will jointly propose legis to amend controversial secs of Family Educ Rights and Privacy Act giving parents and students right to examine school records; proposed changes would guarantee confidentiality of existing lrs of recommendation, permit students to waive right to see selected documents and restrict right of students to see parents' financial statements; aides to Sens say that they will not accede to expressed wishes of numerous coll administrators to delay implementation of new law until hearing are held; changes, which will be proposed as amendment to library bill pending HR action, are expected to be accepted by Sen and HR conf coms and go into effect before end of 45-day grace period; other changes outlined; proposed legis would not meet demand of some educators to postpone enactment pending hearings, but Natl Assn of State Univs and Land Grant Colls exec dir Ralph K Huitt terms proposed changes satisfactory (L)
Sen-House conference com clears strong Fed strip-mine bill despite massive lobbying effort by nation's elec utilities; Natl Coal Assn pres Carl E Bagge says that by reducing planned strip-mine production, measure not only will increase fuel costs of coal-burning elec utilities by 55% but will also force oil-burning elec power cos to continue reliance on costly, imported oil rather than converting to coal (M)
J Richardson Dilworth, sr financial adviser to Rockefeller family, says 84 members of family are worth over $1-billion in securities owned outright and in trusts from which they benefit, testimony before House Judiciary Com hearing into Pres Ford's nomination of Nelson A Rockefeller to be Vice Pres; Dilworth illus (M)
article revs career of Repr W D Mills in light of his hospitalization, Tidal Basin incident and forthcoming loss of his power in HR as HR Ways and Means Com chmn; discusses Mills's method of operation, his authority and power; Mills por; illus of Repr A Ullman, who may succeed Mills as Ways and Means Com chmn (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 1974, covering December 4, 1974.
Elton John
The Rolling Stones
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
John Lennon
Jethro Tull
1974Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player[†]
Tadahito Iguchi , nicknamed "Gucci", is a Japanese served professional baseball second baseman and former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
1974Martinair Flight 138 crashes into the Saptha Kanya mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing 191.[†]
Martinair Flight 138 was a charter flight of Martinair from Surabaya to Jeddah with stopover in Colombo. On 4 December 1974, the Douglas DC-8 operating the flight crashed into a mountain shortly before landing, killing all 191 people aboard – 182 passengers, all of whom were Indonesian Hajj pilgrims, and nine crew members. The crash remains the deadliest in Sri Lankan aviation history and the third-deadliest involving a DC-8, after Arrow Air Flight 1285R and Nigeria Airways Flight 2120. At the time of the crash, it was the second-deadliest aviation accident in history, after the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 which occurred earlier that same year.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]