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inquest jury in London names Lord Lucan murderer of his children's governess Sandra Rivett; Lord Lucan vanished on Nov 7, '74, night that Rivett was killed; Lady Lucan has testified that he attempted to strangle her before killing governess; case revd; Lord Lucan's background noted; his por (M)
Repub-controlled State Sen has nearly doubled its work force since start of Legis session despite state fiscal austerity that has put freeze on exec dept hiring in Gov Carey adm (S)
Pres Ford, calling for shift of emphasis from protecting rights of criminals to insuring those of their victims, asks Cong to enact new laws that would impose mandatory minimum sentences for certain violent or dangerous Fed crimes and for certain multiple offenders; submits to Cong long list of criminal justice reforms that he says are urgently needed; Ford also recommends that persons injured by criminals be compensated up to $50,000, and that maximum fine of $10,000 for most crimes be raised to $100,000; Atty Gen Levi comments; illus (M)
Estimate Bd approves unanimously NYC's $12.087-billion expense budget for fiscal '76; City Council, 35-7, also approves; Mayor Beame terms budget 'disheartening document' that will disrupt lives of thousands of city employes, families and public they serve; scores Sen Repub Majority Leader Warren M Anderson; budget reflects $1.3-billion in economies and loss of 42,097 city jobs; budget is barely above Beame's so-called $11.891-billion 'crisis' budget with $150-million in taxing powers promised by Anderson and additional $46-million in state and Fed money accompanying taxing authority; repts from Albany indicate that Anderson might give city more; Police Comr Michael J Codd repts 5,034 policemen presently employed will be laid off, as will all of dept's 2,328 school-crossing guards and about 700 civilians; Fire Comr John T O'Hagan repts 2,073 firemen would be dismissed, 32 fire cos disbanded and 16 firehouses closed; City Univ Chancellor Robert Kibbee asserts budget would not permit entry of 22,000 freshmen into fall class; Controller Goldin expresses anger; proposes that Kibbee reorder univ's priorities; Sanitation Comr Robert T Groh notes 3,192 sanitationmen will be lost; remarks dept will not be able to conduct st cleaning; Uniformed Sanitationmen's Assn pres John J DeLury warns 15,000 tons of garbage will accumulate each wk; angry confrontation occurs between School Chancellor Irving Anker and City Councilman Howard Golden over extent of cuts in educ system; table shows jobs and money restored to key city depts in Beame's budget proposal; illustrations of Beame, Goldin, City Council Pres Paul O'Dwyer and DeLury (L)
HR, 291-130, passes energy tax bill that would penalize auto mfrs whose cars do not reach minimum gasoline mileage standards (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 1975, covering June 20, 1975.
Elton John
Wings
Earth| Wind & Fire
Soundtrack
Alice Cooper
1975Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player[†]
Joan Manel Balcells Fornaguera is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He won one ATP Tour singles title in his career and reached the final in Scottsdale in 2002 and the semifinals in 2000 Heineken Open losing to Michael Chang.
1975Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer[†]
Daniel Zítka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played three matches for the Czech Republic. He worked as a goalkeeper coach for AC Sparta Prague.
1975Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haitian anthropologist (born 1898)[†]
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was the first woman Haitian anthropologist. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was a student of Bronisław Malinowski who worked in 1949 with Alfred Métraux, and participated in a UNESCO project in Haiti. She married Jean Comhaire, a Belgian who headed the Anthropology Department of University of Nsukka. Subsequently, she worked in Africa.
1975The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".[†]
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley, it stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter, hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]