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MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (Reuters) —The Soviet Union's Tupolev144 airliner, rival of the BritishFrench Concorde, flew a supersonic schedule today on what was billed as its first regular flight carrying freight and mail.
Two small Queens children whose mother had reported losing them in a crowded Queens department store on Christmas Eve were found dead in a rubble‐strewn lot in East Harlem last night and the mother and a man with whom she lives were charged with their murder. Details on Page 4.
Maurice H. Nadjari yesterday defied Governor Carey's abrupt decision to remove him as special state prosecutor and, appealed to the public to join him in protesting the Governor's action.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—A new set of regulations has been issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to protect the “financial integrity” of the $18 billion program of Federal grants to cities for waste treatment plants.
Faced with insufficient tax revenues and increased expenses, many large states are cutting their contributions to welfare and education in an effort to present mandatory balanced budgets while trying to avert politically unpopular tax increases.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1975, covering December 27, 1975.
Chicago
Earth| Wind & Fire
America
KC And The Sunshine Band
Joni Mitchell
1975Aigars Fadejevs, Latvian race walker and therapist[†]
Aigars Fadejevs was a Latvian athlete, competing in 20 km, 50 km walk, and marathon running, and a physiotherapist for sprinters and other athletes. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 50 km race walk, and was named the Latvian Sportsperson of the Year in 2000.
1975Heather O'Rourke, American actress (died 1988)[†]
Heather Michele O'Rourke was an American child actress. She had her breakthrough starring as Carol Anne Freeling in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist (1982), which received critical acclaim and established her as an influential figure in the genre. She went on to reprise the role in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and Poltergeist III (1988), the last of which was released posthumously.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]