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Ford, in news conf, acknowledges he âmade a slipâ in comment on E Eur, but says important thing is making right decisions rather than being able to think on one's feet; dismisses as improper for news conf question whether he would aid E Eur nations attempting to throw off Soviet domination (S)
NY wins pennant; illus (M)
Analysis of GB's econ chaos discusses country's archaic class systemillus (M)
Most states resume or plan to resume swine flu program; Sencer and Cooper comment (M)
Carter visits NYC to pay tribute to Liberal Party, along with more than 2,000 politicians mindful of what small party can do to help or hurt Carter in NY; Carter depicts himself as outsider opposing Washington establishment and describing his Liberal hosts as âAmer's pol conscienceâ; aide Gerard Doherty comments; Gov Carey, Bess Myerson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan are among dignitaries who attend $125 plate banquet at Americana Hotel; Mayor Beame does not attend; Carter visits Sen Hubert Humphrey in Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hosp; illus of Carter with Liberal Party head Donald Harrington and Carey (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 13, 1976, covering October 15, 1976.
Stevie Wonder
Boz Scaggs
Peter Frampton
The Steve Miller Band
Linda Ronstadt
1976Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player[â ]
Elisabeth Aguilar LĂłpez is a former Spanish women's basketball player, member of the Spanish women's basketball team. After four years at George Washington Colonials, she spent most of her senior career in Spanish clubs (Real Canoe NC, HalcĂłn Viajes Salamanca, Caja Rural Canarias, Ros Casares Valencia and Rivas EcĂłpolis, with just a couple of stints abroad: 2002 at Utah Starzz and 2012-13 at WBC Spartak Moscow Region. She won five Spanish Leagues, eight Spanish Cups and six medals with the Spanish senior team, retiring as European champion in 2013.
1976Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player[â ]
Manuel "Dolly" Dallan is an Italian rugby union footballer. Dallan typically plays in the centre field. Since June 2008 he plays for Italian club Venezia Mestre Rugby FC. Dallan has also been capped for the national team, and was a part of their squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
1976Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)[â ]
Carlo Gambino was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia and played a powerful role in organized crime until his death from a heart attack in 1976. During a criminal career that spanned over fifty years, Gambino served only twenty-two months in prison for a tax evasion charge in 1937.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]