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Pres Ford pledges to do everything possible in ‘76 for econ well‐being of people throughout world, comments to reporters; illus (S)
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NYS Sup Ct Justice Edward S Conway declares illegal Legis practice of paying allowances to Sens and Assemblymen during their awn 2‐yr terms in office; so‐called ‘lulus’ totaled about $800,000 this yr and were paid to 163 legislators; decision requires legislators to pay back allowances to state but appeal, considered likely, would stay that part of decision; Conway ruling of 2 mos ago declared unconst establishment of new lulus for 45 legis positions and increases in those of 11 others; Asst Solicitor Gen Jean M Coon, who represented State Controller Arthur Levitt, legis leaders and other public officials who were defendants in suit, comments (M)
USSR, in policy statement circulated by Tass and scheduled for printing in Pravda Jan 1, rejects charges by Amers that USSR has violated ‘72 defensive arms limitation treaty and interim accord on offensive arms; hints it has some doubts about Amer compliance; holds USSR is not to blame for delay in reaching new agreement on offensive arms sketched out in Vladivostok in ‘74; on violations, statement specifically criticizes Sen Henry M Jackson, Sen James L Buckley, ex‐Sec Melvin R Laird and Adm Elmo R Zumwalt Jr; says charges of Soviet violations have been publicly denied by Pres Ford, Sec Kissinger, Sec Donald Rumsfeld and ex‐Sec James R Schlesinger (M)
Physicists at Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, Ill, and at CERN in Eur believe they have produced for 1st time particles of matter displaying elusive property known as charm; theorists call development landmark; implications discussed; contributions to charm and quark theories by Drs James D Bjorken, Sheldon L Glashow, Murray Gell‐Mann and Georg Zweig noted; experiments at 2 labs described; Fermi perticipants were from Calif, Hawaii and Wis Univs, led by Dr William F Frey, of Wis; he, lab theorist Dr Benjamin W Lee, Glashow and Fermi deputy dir Dr Edwin L Goldwater comment; table showing proposed new symmetry in basic constituents of matter; Dr Richard P Feynman, as compromise between ‘J’ and ‘psi’ names for particles, suggests entire group be called ‘psions’ and one 1st found be called ‘J’ (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 1975, covering January 1, 1976.
Chicago
Earth| Wind & Fire
America
Joni Mitchell
Paul Simon
1976Tank, American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor[†]
Durrell Artaze Babbs, better known by his stage name Tank, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer and podcaster. He began his career as a backing vocalist for R&B singers Aaliyah and Ginuwine, and signed a recording contract with the former's record label, Blackground Records as a performing act in 1998. His 2001 single, "Maybe I Deserve" peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and led his debut studio album, Force of Nature (2001). It peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200, while his second album, One Man (2002), peaked within the top 20 and was met with mixed critical reception.
1976A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.[†]
Middle East Airlines Flight 438 was an international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 720 from Beirut, Lebanon, to Muscat, Oman, with a stopover in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On 1 January 1976, the aircraft operating the flight was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 81 people on board. The bombers were never identified.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]