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State Sec Henry Kissinger calls for maintaining 'bedrock of our security' as embodied in current defense budget and balance of power, June 23 speech, Atlanta, Ga (S)
Fed Energy Adm spokesman Robert E Nipp says Admr Zarb has decided to conduct internal probe of charges that then-Repr Hugh Carey and Sen John J Sparkman exerted pressure on office during Arab oil embargo to grant Fed licenses in oil deal involving Carey's brother Edward and oilman Bart Chamberlain; Robert Laird, spokesman for Gov Carey, denies charges; former officials of Fed Energy Office detail pressure brought to bear on them to approve licenses, which were issued by Commerce Dept; one says that he opposed licenses but that superiors argued that they were necessary since New England Petroleum, which is owned by Edward M Carey, was supplier to NYC area utilities; Sen Sparkman reptdly pressured ex-Nixon aide Patrick E O'Donnell on behalf of licenses, and O'Donnell reptdly pressured James H Sparling Jr in Commerce Dept; Treas Sec Simon, who headed energy office at time, is unavailable for comment; licenses, as reptd by Jean Heller in Cox newspapers, enabled Chamberlain's co, Citronelle-Mobile Gathering, to export price-controlled oil to Bahamas, where it was refined by Carey's Bahamas Refining Co; oil was later imported by New England Petroleum, which sold it to utilities at prices up to $23 a bbl (M)
Lou Graham of Nashville shot an even‐par 71 for a two‐stroke victory over John Mahaffey of Houston yesterday in their 18‐hole playoff for the 75th United States Open golf championship at the Medinah (Ill.) Country Club. Details on Page 27.
NYS Legis approves bill providing $250-million in rail-improvement-bond funds, which may restore passenger services on West Shore line of Penn Central (S)
RALEIGH, N.C.—Twentyseven‐year‐old Jesse Thurman Fowler is known on Central Prison's death row as a man of high good spirits, especially for the kind of place death row is. He has a quick, broad smile and seems almost jaunty, wearing a green fatigue cap with the bill turned up, a black nationalist flag drawn on it and the words “Death Before Dishonor” neatly lettered around it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 1975, covering June 24, 1975.
Elton John
Wings
Earth| Wind & Fire
Soundtrack
Alice Cooper
1975Marek Malík, Czech ice hockey player[†]
Marek Malík is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1994 to 2009.
1975Federico Pucciariello, Argentinian-Italian rugby player[†]
Federico Pucciariello is a former Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. He played at both tighthead and loosehead prop, and played for Munster Rugby up to the end of the 2008–09 season. He previously played for Gloucester Rugby and CS Bourgoin-Jallieu in the Heineken Cup.
1975Wendell Ladner, Professional Basketball Player in the ABA[†]
Wendell Larry Ladner was an American professional basketball player most notable for his playing time in the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1970 to 1975.
1975Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.[†]
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board. The accident was determined to be caused by wind shear caused by a microburst, but the failure of the airport and the flight crew to recognize the severe weather hazard was also a contributing factor.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]