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AT&T repts profits of $1.01-billion in qr ended Aug 31; is 1st publicly owned corp in US to earn over $1-billion in any 3-mo period; previous high for 3-mo period was set by GM in 2d qr of '76, with earnings of $909-million; AT&T chmn John D deButts attributes gain in earnings in part to gen improvement in econ (M)
Adm bill to allot $3.5-billion in loan guarantees and $500-million in price supports to aid cos testing synthetic fuels released by HR Rules Com; passage doubted since both liberal and conservative groups are opposed (S)
NY Times survey of Moynihan's narrow primary victory shows some divisions over his candidacy within party; also demonstrates strength among swing voters who are likely to decide outcome of election; reveals black and Puerto Rican antagonism to Moynihan; examples cited; Moynihan also seen having some problems with some liberal Dems; reasons discussed; survey findings detailed; graph; Abzug and Moynihan pors (L)
Moynihan wins what he calls 'gracious' promise of help from Abzug in his campaign for US Sen; Abzug asserts she will 'cooperate' with Moynihan in unifying Dem Party to defeat Buckley; Buckley describes Moynihan as 'to the left' of majority of New Yorkers on issues such as inflation, econ and 'extent of Fed meddling in our lives'; with only scattering of missing election dist results and paper ballots remaining to be counted, Moynihan recd 327,478 votes and Abzug 317,905; Buckley recd 234,138 to 98,517 for challenger Repr Peter A Peyser; Liberal Party prepares to put aside token Sen candidacy of Councilman Henry J Stern and give its line to Moynihan; Gov Carey praises Moynihan and says he will work for his election; Moynihan and Ramsey Clark illus (L)
Pres Ford, beginning election campaign, announces 2-pronged plan to spur home ownership by Amers of limited means, speech, Ann Arbor, Mich (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 15, 1976, covering September 16, 1976.
Peter Frampton
Boz Scaggs
Jefferson Starship
Linda Ronstadt
Fleetwood Mac
1976ElÄ«na GaranÄa, Latvian soprano[â ]
ElÄ«na GaranÄa is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki and had begun a career in Europe. Worldwide engagements followed her 2003 Salzburg Festival appearances.
1976Tina Barrett, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress[â ]
Tina Ann Barrett is an English singer and actress. Her major breakthrough came in 1999 when she became a member of the pop group S Club. She has been a member of spin-off group S Club Allstars since 2014. She is also a former member of the girl group Mis-Teeq, though she never appeared on any of their recordings.
1976Greg Buckner, American basketball player and coach[â ]
Gregory Derayle Buckner is an American former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He had previously served as an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1976Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)[â ]
Bertha Maria JĂșlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She was instrumental in gaining women's suffrage in Brazil and represented her country at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, signing her name to the United Nations Charter and championing the inclusion of Article 8 in the Charter. In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the National Museum of Brazil, specializing in poison dart frogs. She has four frog species and two lizard species named after her.
1976Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.[â ]
Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich) Karapetyan is a Soviet-Armenian former finswimmer. He was best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]