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March 24, 1976

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KIBBEE PLAN GETS BACKING OF MAW

By Edward B. Fiske

The Board of Higher Education will advise the Emergency Financial Control Board today that it is prepared to accept the bulk of the controversial Kibbee plan for consolidating and restructuring the City University, sources in the board reported yesterday.

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Papal Birth Stand Found to Hurt Church

By Kenneth A. Briggs

Natl Opinion Research Center survey of RC attitudes indicates support for parochial schools remains strong despite ch's gen retreat from field; notes 90% of people questioned supported such schools and would increase giving to underwrite them (S)

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Moslem Gunmen In Beirut Advance In Christian Areas

By James M. Markham Special to The New York Times

Moslem militiamen, bolstered by help from Palestinian guerrillas, advance into downtown sections of Beirut traditionally held by Christian Phalangists; Phalangist militiamen are pushed out of Holiday Inn, and fierce battles are fought around Starco shopping complex and Hilton Hotel; Syrian Cols Ali al-Madani and Mohammed Khouly try to arrange cease-fire; want Parliament to act on proposed Const amendment, approved by Cabinet, that will allow Parliament to elect new Pres at once; Phalangists rept they hold Hilton and their reprs met with Syrian cols; cols reptdly urge Palestinian leaders to press Jumblat to modify his opposition to Syrian program; Reuters repts Moslems shelled Franjieh's palace; Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine distributes pubs in western Beirut calling for expulsion of As Saiqa from PLO; PLO exec com, meeting under Arafat, issues communique stressing need for unity; number of Al Fatah guerrillas reptdly helped alliance of Moslem and leftist fighters seize Holiday Inn; map (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 24, 1976, covering March 24, 1976.

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    Album cover for Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 by Eagles

    Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

    Eagles

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    Peak
    1
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    4
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    Album cover for Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton

    Frampton Comes Alive

    Peter Frampton

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    2
    Peak
    2
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    9
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    Album cover for Thoroughbred by Carole King

    Thoroughbred

    Carole King

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    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    8
  4. 4
    Album cover for Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon

    Still Crazy After All These Years

    Paul Simon

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    1
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    23
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    Album cover for Desire by Bob Dylan

    Desire

    Bob Dylan

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10

Notable Births

Aaron Brooks (American football)

1976Aaron Brooks, American football player[†]

Aaron Lafette Brooks is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, primarily with the New Orleans Saints. He was a member of the Saints for six seasons, where he set the franchise records for regular season and career touchdown passes. Brooks spent his first season with the Green Bay Packers, who selected him in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL draft, and his final season with the Oakland Raiders.

Aliou Cissé

1976Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach[†]

Aliou Cissé is a Senegalese professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Libya national team. Cissé is best known for captaining the Senegal team which reached the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations Final and for being the first Senegal manager to win the tournament in 2022 after reaching the final in 2019.

1976Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer[†]

Athanasios Kostoulas is a Greek former international footballer who played as a defender.

Peyton Manning

1976Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur[†]

Peyton Williams Manning is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons. Nicknamed "the Sheriff", he spent 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and four with the Denver Broncos. Manning is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. A member of the Manning football dynasty, he is the second son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning, older brother of former NFL quarterback Eli Manning, and uncle of Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers, winning the Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm awards as a senior en route to victory in the 1997 SEC Championship Game.

Notable Deaths

Bernard Montgomery

1976Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887)[†]

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

Historical Events

Argentina

1976In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.[†]

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km2 (1,073,397 sq mi), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and a part of Antarctica.

Historical Context for March 24, 1976

In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]