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February 13, 1975

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OIL NATIONS’ CASH SURGING INTO U.S.

By Unknown Author

number of commercial bankers, brokerage officials and economists note substantially larger amt of surplus oil revenues that came into US in â€Č74, predicting sharp increase in revenues for â€Č75; say investments of petrodollars could reach $20‐ to $30‐billion; Merrill Lynch vice chmn Eugene J Sherman expects oil‐exporting nations to buy at least $10‐billion worth of US Treas securities; he and other execs say banks around world are saturated with short‐term petrodollars (S)

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COLUMBIA GETTING MORE APPLICANTS

By Iver Peterson

NYC colls, particularly Columbia, NYU and Barnard, rept freshman applications are up sharply, after 3‐yr decline; 6% increase at Columbia reverses trend traceable to bitterness that followed â€Č68 student riots; 12% increase at NYU continues 3‐yr recovery in applications following slide that severely reduced Washington Sq campus's undergrad enrollment; Columbia and NYU admissions deans Michael Lacopo and Herbert Livesey, respectively, see increases as sign of improvement in NYC's reputation as place to study and live; other reasons noted; Barnard official Dorothy Denburg notes applications to inst are up 12% this yr, fact she attributes to desire of women to get solid liberal‐arts curriculum with preprofessional programs; notes 5% of practicing women physicians in country attended Barnard; prospective students say they favor coll's ‘conservative’ curriculum and degree requirements (L)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 1975, covering February 13, 1975.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

    Heart Like A Wheel

    Linda Ronstadt

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  2. 2
    Album cover for AWB by Average White Band

    AWB

    Average White Band

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    22
  3. 3
    Album cover for Miles Of Aisles by Joni Mitchell

    Miles Of Aisles

    Joni Mitchell

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan

    Blood On The Tracks

    Bob Dylan

    Last week
    15
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for Dark Horse by George Harrison

    Dark Horse

    George Harrison

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

Ben Collins (racing driver)

1975Ben Collins, English race car driver[†]

Benjamin Lievesley Immi Collins is a British racing driver from Bristol. He has competed in motor racing since 1994 in many categories, from Formula Three and Indy Lights to sportscars, GT racing and stock cars.

Katie Hopkins

1975Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist[†]

Katie Olivia Hopkins is an English media personality, far-right political commentator, and former columnist and businesswoman. She was a contestant on the third series of the reality show The Apprentice in 2007; following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers, including The Sun and MailOnline. In 2015, Hopkins appeared on the fifteenth series of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother, where she finished as runner-up, and hosted her own talk show, If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World. The following year she became a presenter for the talk radio station LBC.

Notable Deaths

André Beaufre

1975AndrĂ© Beaufre, French general (born 1902)[†]

André Beaufre was a French Army officer and military strategist who attained the rank of Général d'Armée before his retirement in 1961.

Historical Events

World Trade Center (1973–2001)

1975Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.[†]

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the 110-story-tall Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center at 1,368 feet (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center at 1,362 feet (415.1 m), were the tallest buildings in the world; they were also the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world until 1996, when the Petronas Towers opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center, 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC, and 7 WTC. The complex contained 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m2) of office space and, prior to its completion, was projected to accommodate an estimated 130,000 people.

Historical Context for February 13, 1975

In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]