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Ford wins 59% of Repub vote and Carter wins 48% of Dem vote to win Ill primaries; details (L)
article on pol, soc and econ conditions of Rhodesian whites; notes that 278,000 white Rhodesians live in style and comfort; contends that majority of Rhodesians seem to have persuaded themselves that they are defending Western and Christian civilization against Communism; illus (L)
Bergen County (NY) Prosecutor Joseph C Woodcock Jr will seek indictment of Dr Mario E Jascalevich, NJ surgeon referred to as Dr X, on charges of murdering 1 or more patients with curare at Riverdell Hosp in Oradell in '66; Dr David P Beggs, chemist who is performing some tests on exhumed bodies for chief NJ toxicologist Dr Richard Coumbis, says he has found curare in tissues of each of 4 bodies he has examined; illus (L)
State Dept spokesman Robert L Funseth says US decision to postpone talks with USSR on energy cooperation was due to Soviet mil involvement in Angola (S)
Industrial production increased again in February, housing starts registered a big advance and business began to accumulate inventories, Government statistics showed. Page 59.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 17, 1976, covering March 17, 1976.
Eagles
Peter Frampton
Fleetwood Mac
Carole King
Bob Dylan
1976Scott Downs, American baseball player[†]
Scott Jeremy Downs is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago White Sox. He has been a starter, reliever and closer during his baseball career.
1976Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009)[†]
Stephen Patrick David Gately was an Irish singer who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen-consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart. He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial break-up, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning". Gately went on to appear in stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing songs to various projects. In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings.
1976Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer[†]
Álvaro Alexánder Recoba Rivero is an Uruguayan professional football coach and former player, who played as a forward or midfielder. He most recently coached Uruguayan club Nacional.
1976Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)[†]
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that “no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.”
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]