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Ford discloses paying over $94,000 in Fed income tax for '75 and urges Reagan and Dem rivals to make similar disclosure (S)
NYC Educ Bd's proposal to shift all 5th- and 6th-graders from intermediate to elementary schools is expected to result in layoff of some 1,300-1,700 teachers in former school system, while adding 950-1,250 teachers to staffs of elementary schools; situation attributed to different licensing requirements (M)
Beame adm is studying possibility of removing from rent control some 15,000 apts that rent for 300 $300 mo or more; real estate interests are planning legal effort to compel NYC to consider removal of tens of thousands of additional apartments, also renting for $300 a mo or more, from rent stabilization program; Beame adm is not considering latter idea; NYC Comr of Rents and Housing Maintenance Daniel W Joy and landlords' atty James Peck comment (M)
US Sup Ct rules, 8-0, that Fed cts can order creation of law-cost public housing for minorities in city's white suburbs to relieve racial segregation in housing within the city; rules cts can do this even when suburbs involved have not been guilty of racially discriminatory practices; rules that HUD can be ordered to provide such housing in suburbs if Govt has been found to have contributed, through its funding policies, to segregation in city; ruling, in case involving public housing in Chicago, Ill, is landmark victory for civil rights groups; ruling did not require desegregation plans that cross city lines but merely permitted them (L)
United Rubber Workers begin nationwide strike against big four rubber cos on Apr 21 ; shutdown of 47 plants of 4 cos, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, B F Goodrich and Uniroyal Inc, affects 70,000 workers and two-thirds of nation's tiremaking capacity; analysts predict costly settlement for indus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 21, 1976, covering April 21, 1976.
Wings
Led Zeppelin
Eagles
Queen
Johnnie Taylor
1976Petero Civoniceva, Fijian-Australian rugby league player[†]
Petero Civoniceva, is a Fijian-Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative prop forward, in 2009 he broke the record for most international matches for Australia of any forward in history. Civoniceva played his club football for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1998, 2000 and 2006 NRL Premierships, as well as for the Penrith Panthers, whom he captained. Late in his career whilst playing for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Queensland Cup, Civoniceva captained the Fiji national team in their 2013 Rugby League World Cup campaign. The Petero Civoniceva Medal is awarded to the Australian Fijian rugby league footballer of the year, while the Civoniceva Medal is awarded to the Queensland Cup player voted as the best and fairest.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]