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Ford vetoes foreign aid bill which has effect of putting in abeyance $2.2-billion in econ and mil aid for Israel (S)
Nashville Tennessean has dismissed copy editor and writer Jacque Srouji following charge that she had been undercover agent for FBI, allegation she denied; questions about her role arose last wk before HR Small Business Com's Subcom on Energy and Environment when she testified that she had been given access to almost 1,000 pages of documents from bur's inquiry into death in automobile accident of Karen Silkwood, Okla plutonium worker; subcom chmn Repr John D Dingell says that when panel staff later questioned FBI agent about Srouji's access to papers, agent responded that he could not talk about Srouji any further because she had 'special relationship' with bur; Tennessean publisher John Seigenthaler comments; Srouji por (M)
landlords make first money offer but union rejects it; state mediator Vincent D McDonnell confers with union pres John J Sweeney to discuss possibility of counteroffer; angry residents protest pile-up of garbage and trash and criticize sanitationmen for failing to cross picket lines to collect garbage; details of landlords' offer (L)
US BLS statistics show that while Apr '76 natl employment rate rose by 707,000 workers, to 87,399,000, jobless rate remained unchanged at 7.5%; increase in number of job mkt entrants reptdly has resulted in unchanged jobless rate; rept appears to provide pol points for Pres Ford, who can point to solid expansion of jobholding, and for Repub and Dem opponents, who can note continuing ravages of recession for those still out of work; number of persons out of work 15 wks or more fell by 260,000 to 2-million; statistics show total labor force grew by 720,000 in Apr to 94.4-million; BLS Comr Julius Shiskin says GNP completed recovery phase in 1st qr '76 and has not entered 'growth' stage; analysts say there are several indications that number of workers laid off were recalled in Apr; strongest indication is drop in number of long-term unemployed workers; overall job gain reptdly was concentrated among adult men; AFL-CIO pres George Meany contends that despite employment pickup there is no solid foundation for Pres Ford's 'election-yr optimism about the Amer economy'; graphs (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 1976, covering May 8, 1976.
Led Zeppelin
Wings
Peter Frampton
Eagles
Marvin Gaye
1976Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Martha Wainwright is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. She has released seven critically-acclaimed studio albums.
1976The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.[†]
The New Revolution is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster opened to the public on May 8, 1976. The New Revolution is the world's first modern roller coaster to feature a vertical loop and has been recognized for that accomplishment by American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE), who awarded the roller coaster its Coaster Landmark status. However, there were earlier examples of roller coasters with a full vertical loop, such as the steel roller coaster called "Looping the Loop" in Parque Japonés in Buenos Aires, which operated from 1911 to 1930.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]