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Article on Butz resignation holds Ford was relying heavily on Butz to help win Midwestern farm vote; Amer Farm Bur Federation pres Allan Grant does not see Butz as liability in Ford campaign; Butz vows to campaign for Ford (S)
Alaska oil pipeline expected to be completed on schedule, in July '77; complexities of construction, US Interior Dept supervision by ind engineers revd; pipeline illus; Alyeska Pipeline chmn E L Patton denies HR subcom rept of sloppy workmanship and poor quality control (M)
Chancellor Schmidt expected to have more problems dealing with such econ problems as chronic unemployment among young and solidification of finances for soc welfare in view of close and bitter election
Yonkers, NY, ends yr of fiscal uncertainty, selling $83.6âmillion in shortâ and longâterm bonds; City Mgr Vincent Castaldo hails move; says interest rates ranging from 6% to 8.75% are much lower than expected; says City Council and NYS Emergency Financial Control Bd must approve sale (M)
union and mgt agree in principle on major issues that precipitated strike; Woodcock and Bannon comment (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 29, 1976, covering October 5, 1976.
Peter Frampton
Boz Scaggs
Linda Ronstadt
Fleetwood Mac
Wild Cherry
1976Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic[â ]
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov is a Russian politician and current head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen independence movement, through his father who was the separatist-appointed mufti of Chechnya. He is a colonel general in the Russian military.
1976Royston Tan, Singaporean director, producer, and screenwriter[â ]
Royston Tan is a Singaporean filmmaker and actor.
1976J. J. Yeley, American race car driver[â ]
Christopher Beltram Hernandez "J. J." Yeley is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 44 Chevrolet ZL1 for NY Racing Team and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 29 Ford Mustang for RSS Racing. He has previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, what is now the ARCA Menards Series, and what is now the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour as well as the IndyCar Series.
1976Barbara Nichols, American actress (born 1928)[â ]
Barbara Marie Nickerauer, known professionally as Barbara Nichols, was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s.
1976Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)[â ]
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]