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bankers warn Yonkers that it might default in Nov, largely because of its proximity to NYC; investors seen lumping Yonkers with NYC as fiscal risk; Marine Midland Bank spokesman Edward J Fanning holds bond mkt will not change until NYC ‘defaults or doesn't default’ (S)
Teamsters, arguing that its image as labor's ‘bully on the block’ gives it formidable negotiating weapon, is selling its services as bargaining agent for nonunionized police forces in growing number of Calif cities and towns; police orgns in San Diego and 11 other cities and towns, with total of 2,300 nonunionized policemen of all ranks, have signed so-called ‘repr contracts’ with Teamsters in last yr, paying fees running as high as $190,000 per yr; Teamster and police officials comment (M)
Amer Embassy, Beirut, is reducing its nonessential staff and suggests Amer community evacuate from Lebanon dependents and nonessential personnel; embassy spokesman says 20 of 170 embassy officials have left Lebanon (S)
AIT MELLOUL, Morocco, Oct. 26—Beating tambourines, tooting horns, waving flags and shouting slogans, Moroccans are rolling south toward Spanish Sahara on every available truck.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1975, covering October 28, 1975.
John Denver
Pink Floyd
Jefferson Starship
Eagles
Linda Ronstadt
1975Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (born 1894)[†]
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot. A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908 to 1926. A French professional champion on several occasions, he became the European heavyweight champion before the First World War. A sergeant aviator during the Great War, he was wounded before returning to civilian life. He then discovered rugby union, playing as a winger.
1975Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1932)[†]
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the 1960s are the albums More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964) and Sound Pieces (1966), both also on Impulse!.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]