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In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]
1976Phil Ivey, American poker player[†]
Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title, and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. Ivey is regarded by numerous poker observers and contemporaries as the best all-around player in the world. In 2017, he was elected to the Poker Hall of Fame.
1976Mat Rogers, Australian rugby player[†]
Mathew Steve Rogers is an Australian former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He played both codes at the highest level, becoming a dual-code international. He is currently a rugby union commentator on Stan Sport.
1976Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)[†]
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
1976George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)[†]
George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". This makes Whipple the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester.
SY LOUIS, Jan. 31—Claude Larose scored on a deflected shot during a St. Louis power play in the third period tonight, rallying the Blues for the second time and fashioning a 2‐2 tie with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League.
Roger Copeland article criticizes Twyla Tharp's new ballet, Push Comes to Shove, as work where popular and classical 'are merely juxtaposed, they never merge;' illus (M)
We've got to be careful about wishing. Here we are, always wishing for a good new funny American play so that we won't have to hang our heads in shame every time we think of how beholden we are to the British for all our Broadway hits, and what do we get?
TORONTO, Jan. 31—Dunr Wilson's scraggly hair was even scragglier with dampness tonight after his strenuous effort in the New York Rangers’ 6‐4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Ford campaigns in Dearborn, Mich (M)
Survey finds Amer retirees increasingly are moving to northern, rather than southern states; earlier retirement age cited as 1 factor; while Fla and Ariz still are states with strongest pull for aged, recent Census Bur and Soc Security Adm statistics show unmistakable shift in pattern; Agr Dept researcher Calvin A Beale comments; most startling finding is that proportion of men and women in 60s more than doubled in 30 northern counties from Mich to Minn, '60-70; Mich State Univ sociologist Prof J Allan Beegle comments on recent study made of Clare County (Mich) elderly residents; map shows fastest growing retirement counties in US, '60-70; illus (L)
Cong's overriding of Pres Ford's veto of $45-billion appropriations bill for Labor and HEW Depts revd (S)
WENDY SIMON says she loves New Jersey. She loves her apartment, which she has decorated with imagination in shades of yellow, gray and white. And she loves her job in Carlstadt, where she works as a merchandiser for a button‐and‐buckle company.
Maurice Sendak's “Fantasy sketch” (Endpaper, Jan. 11) was rather bizarre. It needed some comments, so here they are:
Lopo do Nascimento, head of Luanda Govt estab by Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola, says US Govt pressure on Gulf Oil to suspend its operations off Cabinda and to withhold $200-million in royalties constitutes new phase in Angolan war; says Govt would prefer to maintain commercial links to US cos but that other mkts can be found if US Govt prevents US cos for working in Angola; says plans for oil production have been discussed with some of oil-producing countries that have recognized his Govt (S)
Spanish Govt is attempting to loosen censorship imposed on various arts; there is evident liberalization in films, theater and press, especially in treatment of sexual matters; RC Ch has been particularly critical of move; RC Ch Comm for Doctrine of Faith recently warned against 'moral deterioration' in arts (M)
Most severe drought in more than 70 yrs is causing fire hazards, itchy skin, econ threat to cattle ranchers and farmers and other problems; unseasonably high temperatures reptd in Los Angeles (S)