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Soviet cosmonauts Col Aleksei Leonov and Valery N Kubasov illus with US astronauts Vance D Brand, Donald K Slayton and Brig Gen Thomas P Stafford at Cape Canaveral (S)
Illus of S Vietnamese Pres Nguyen Van Thieu in foxhole during recent visit to Hue (S Vietnam)
Vinnell Corp, commenting on its Defense Dept contract to train Saudi Arabian Natl Guard, says it is 1st such contract given to private co to train foreign army; such training is usually done by mil advisory teams (S)
Harvard Univ's economics dept, long regarded as prime source of strength and direction for much of modern economics, has come under attack both from without and within, primarily on basis of its teaching capacity; Prof Wassily W Leontief has resigned yr ahead of schedule to join faculty of NYU; urges hiring additional faculty with ‘wider range of interest’; NY Times has obtained copy of rept by Visiting Com of outside experts, which castigates dept for various reasons, principally for poor teaching at grad level; rept, which was circulated among faculty last fall, was endorsed by 20 leading businessmen and economists, including Profs James Tobin, Robert Solow, Andrew F Brimmer, and by Alice M Rivlin of Brookings Inst; grad students are delighted by rept and by Leontief resignation; criticism of dept by Grad Econ Club noted; key profs who are near or over retirement age include Alexander Gershenkron, Simon Kuznets and Edward S Mason; John Kenneth Galbraith has decided not to return to Harvard from his current period of ‘terminal leave’; replacements are Profs Kenneth J Arrow, Dale W Jorgensen and Zvi Griliches; they have joined such veterans as Profs Otto Eckstein, James S Duesenberry and Hendrik S Houthakker; Dean Henry Rosovsky comments on difficulty of improving teaching quality; says ‘You just don't call in a Harvard professor and say why don't you teach better’; Harvard situation seen reflecting that of gen economics profession; much of unhappiness among grad students stems from univ's decision few yrs ago not to give tenure to Marxist instructor Samuel Bowles; univ, prompted by Visiting Com rept, plans to recuit a Marxist economist to its only vacant positon on junior faculty next fall; Leontief por
President Ford has an nounced that he will name John T. Dunlop, a Harvard economist, to succeed Peter J. Brennan as Secretary of Labor. Details, page 39.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 5, 1975, covering February 9, 1975.
Ohio Players
Joni Mitchell
Linda Ronstadt
Average White Band
Elton John
1975Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach[†]
Kurt Asle Arvesen is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2011. Arvesen is from Eresfjord, Nesset. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships five times, as well as stages in each of the three Grand Tours.
1975Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2008)[†]
Clinton Andrew Grybas was a leading Australian rules football and sports radio and television commentator.
1975Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player[†]
Vladimir Guerrero Alvino, nicknamed "Vlad the Impaler", is a Dominican former professional baseball player who spent 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right fielder and designated hitter. He played for the Montreal Expos (1996–2003), Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004–2009), Texas Rangers (2010), and Baltimore Orioles (2011).
1975The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.[†]
Soyuz 17 was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight by cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Georgy Grechko set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1 in 1971.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]