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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)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 1976, covering February 1, 1976.
Earth| Wind & Fire
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Chicago
Helen Reddy
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.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]