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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday a 4 percent cutback in subway service effective Jan. 18 that will reduce rush‐hour service on all lines.
The city school system, which has already dropped 8,000 teachers since last June, plans to lay off 3,000 more when the spring term begins Feb. 2.
YAPHANK, L.L, Dec. 17—A Federal grand jury is investigating charges that executives of the Lincoln Savings Bank of Brooklyn demanded cash kickbacks amounting to nearly $500,000 in exchange for their approval of a $14 million loan for the controversial Suffolk Meadows Quarterhorse Race Track here.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The Senate approved today and prepared to send to the White House legislation that would force an immediate reduction in the price of crude oil produced in the United States.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 17 — Lynette Alice Fromme, 27 years old, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for attempting to kill President Ford in Capitol Park here on Sept. 5.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 17, 1975, covering December 18, 1975.
Chicago
Earth| Wind & Fire
America
KC And The Sunshine Band
Jefferson Starship
1975Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[â ]
Shawn Randolph Houser is an American country music singer and songwriter. Houser has racked up over half a dozen hits and over 1 billion streams. His How Country Feels album topped the country radio charts with the title track, âRunninâ Outta Moonlightâ and âGoodnight Kissâ and earned critical acclaim for his powerful delivery of the Top 5 smash and nominated CMA Song of the Year, âLike A Cowboy.â
1975Sia, Australian singer-songwriter[â ]
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. When Crisp disbanded in 1997, she released her debut studio album, OnlySee, in Australia. Sia moved to London and provided vocals for the British duo Zero 7. She released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, in 2001 and her third, Colour the Small One, in 2004.
1975Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress[â ]
Patricia Anne Stratigeas, better known by the ring name Trish Stratus, is a Canadian professional wrestler, yoga instructor, actress and former fitness model. She is signed to WWE. An inductee of the 2013 WWE Hall of Fame, Stratus is often regarded as one of the greatest female wrestlers in history. Stratus's 448-day reign as WWF/WWE Women's Champion stands as the longest reign of any women's world champion in the 21st century.
1975Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (born 1900)[â ]
Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky was a Russian-born American geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis and also popular for his support and promotion of theistic evolution as a practicing Christian. Born in the Russian Empire, Dobzhansky immigrated to the United States in 1927 at the age of 27.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[â ]