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WASHINGTON, May 6—The White House indicated today that President Ford would not] decide until next week whether to sign or veto pending campaign legislation, delaying further the potential resumption of primary campaign subsidies to Presidential candidates.
Mayor Beame's 3-yr austerity plan is weakened when Ford Adm rejects his request to divert anticipated housing subsidy funds from tenants in privately owned housing to low-cost public housing; according to current plan provisions, Mayor had assumed Fed approval of housing subsidy and had counted on it to close $55-million of $800-million deficit that must be eliminated in next 2 yrs; Beame says he will visit Washington, DC, to try to win change; illus of Beame, others (L)
SIU pres Paul Hall sees Repub conv nominating Rockefeller, a favorite of construction indus
Labor Dept repts food prices rose by 2.8% in Apr (S)
Severe earthquake, measuring 6.5 to 8.9 on Richter scale, strikes northeastern Italy on May 6, collapsing entire sections of towns northeast of Venice near Yugoslavian border, killing at least 95 persons and injuring 1,000; death toll expected to rise; property damage described; quake felt in surrounding countries; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 1976, covering May 7, 1976.
Led Zeppelin
Wings
Peter Frampton
Eagles
Marvin Gaye
1976Calvin Booth, American basketball player and executive[†]
Calvin Lawrence Booth is an American professional basketball executive and former player who was the general manager of the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 10 seasons as a center in the NBA after playing college basketball for the Penn State Nittany Lions.
1976Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Stacey William Jones is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer, who has been named amongst the greatest New Zealand has ever produced. He is currently the head coach of New Zealand national team. He played as a halfback, but he has also briefly played at five-eighth during his distinguished career, which includes 46 tests for New Zealand (1995–2006). Stacey Jones is the first and only life member of the New Zealand Warriors club whose records for most appearances, tries and points he held at the time of his retirement.
1976Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2005)[†]
Michael Patrick Murphy was a United States Navy SEAL officer who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first member of the United States Navy (USN) to receive the award since the Vietnam War. His other posthumous awards include the Silver Star Medal and the Purple Heart.
1976Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice[†]
Ayelet Shaked is an Israeli former politician, activist, and software engineer. She served as Minister of Interior from 2021 to 2022 and as Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Between 2013 and 2021, she was a representative in the Knesset as a member of The Jewish Home from 2013 to 2018, and then as a founding member of the New Right from 2018 to 2019 and again from 2019 to 2020. Shaked also served as the leader of the defunct right-wing electoral alliance Yamina. Despite her tenure in The Jewish Home, a religious political party, she has identified as a secularist.
1976Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (born 1884)[†]
Alison Jane Uttley was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]