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meeting; US decision to boycott special fund being set up to provide emergency econ fund seen certain to be viewed at UN as retaliation for controversial decisions of new Assembly majority; Scali criticism of majority recalled; US aide Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr denies there is reprisal clement in move (M)
NYC Council passes measure that requires all school buses transporting handicapped students to have dual operating doors by Sept 1 '75 (S)
Egyptian Pres Sadat is reptdly counting on Sec Kissinger to deliver disengagement accord between Egypt and Israel under which Israel would yield Abu Rudeis oilfield, which currently provides Israel with 60% of its oil requirement (S)
new Emergency Jobs Act legis expected to provide unemployment benefits for up to 13 wks to domestic workers not previously covered by jobless benefits (S)
Roy L Ash resigns on Dec 18 as dir of Office of Mgt and Budget, saying that he had intended to serve in govt for only 2 yrs, and that period would be up in Jan; Pres Ford, in accepting resignation, praises Ash; 2 illus; Ash is scheduled to be succeeded by HUD Dept Sec James T Lynn; Lynn por (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 18, 1974, covering December 18, 1974.
Elton John
The Rolling Stones
Jethro Tull
Neil Diamond
Harry Chapin
1974Peter Boulware, American football player and politician[†]
Peter Nicholas Boulware is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for nine seasons with the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, earning recognition as a consensus All-American. A first-round pick of Baltimore in the 1997 NFL draft, he played his entire pro career for the Ravens.
1974Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer[†]
Knut Schreiner is a Norwegian guitarist. Also known by his stage name Euroboy, he has been part of the Norwegian music scene since the early 1990s as a member of Kåre and the Cavemen and Turbonegro. Schreiner has also been a part the bands The Vikings, Black Diamond Brigade, Mirror Lakes. He has also been in other musical projects and produced other bands, notably Euroboys, Amulet and The Lovethugs.
1974Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1887)[†]
Harry Bartholomew Hooper was an American professional baseball right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Hooper batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Hooper was born in Bell Station, California, and he graduated from Saint Mary's College of California. He played for major league teams between 1909 and 1925, spending most of that time with the Boston Red Sox and finishing his career with the Chicago White Sox.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]