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Walter H Annenberg pledges $20‐million to Met Museum for communications center to make world's art more available to mass audiences; Met pres Douglas Dillon says funding is most important in museum's history; center will be headed by Thomas Hoving; Annenberg and Hoving illus (M)
NYS Health Dept bars 34 NYC‐area physicians from Medicaid program in broadest crackdown on socalled Medicaid mills since Gov Carey ordered investigation Oct 6; asks Atty Gen Louis Lefkowitz to seek ct action to close 2 Medicaid mills and disqualify 18 other physicians, dentists and other med providers for allegedly improper billing practices; Health Comr Robert Whalen says NYC‐area physicians are disqualified or suspended for allegedly unacceptable med practice; 2 Medicaid mills are Park East Med Center and Central Park North Med Center; physicians listed; Dr Seymour C Feldman is convicted, Fed ct, Manhattan, on charges of filing $18,000 in false Medicaid claims (M)
EPA Deputy Admr John R Quarles Jr says controversial new airpollution enforcement policy would permit new pollutioncausing indus even in NYC‐northern NJ areas where Fed air quality standards have not yet been met, Fifth Internatl Pollution Engineering Exposition, Anaheim Conv Center, Calif; says agency has developed tradeoff policy where new indus plant is permitted if sufficient additional emissions reduction can be obtained from existing sources so as to produce no net increases; says additional emission reduction can be obtained by improvements in facility already owned by developer of new plant; agency is trying to establish framework that will require indus officials to examine new pollution sources and have explicit tradeoffs in cleaner air to justify them; policy relates only to stationary sources of air pollution; proposals challenged by Natl Clean Air Coalition as distortion of Clean Air Act of ‘70 (M)
Israeli forces increased their patrols near Lebanese border this wk when repts were received that Palestinian guerrillas were moving south toward Israel; Israeli mil hq repts foiling several attempts to land guerrillas on Israeli shore from vessels sailing from Lebanon (S)
Utah Sup Ct, 4 to 1, rules that convicted murderer Gilmore can be executed Nov 15; Gilmore would be 1st person to be executed in US since ‘67; ACLU and NAACP officials begin seeking stay; officials for orgns comment; por of Gilmore (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1976, covering November 11, 1976.
Stevie Wonder
Led Zeppelin
Elton John
Peter Frampton
Earth| Wind & Fire
1976Jason Grilli, American baseball player[†]
Jason Michael Grilli is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers. Taken as the fourth overall selection of the 1997 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants, Grilli was one of the top starting pitcher prospects in all of Minor League Baseball, ranked 54th in 1998 and 44th in 1999. The Giants traded him to the Florida Marlins in 1999, for whom he debuted on May 11, 2000.
1976Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player[†]
Jesse Frederick Keeler is a Canadian musician. He is known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and synthesist of Canadian dance-punk duo Death from Above and one half of the electronic music duo MSTRKRFT. In addition to singing, Keeler plays drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and saxophone. He also works as a producer, lending music a variety of styles over the course of his career, including punk, hardcore, rock, house, and electro.
1976Alexander Calder, American sculptor (born 1898)[†]
Alexander "Sandy" Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people."
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]