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Burton Malkiel, member of Econ Advisors Council, says Pres Ford has decided stimulus for econ is needed, and will propose tax cut, retroactive to Jan 1, not linked to Fed spending cut (S)
Walter Burton Carey is charged with 2d degree murder after Karen Pomroy, girl he allegedly attacked and robbed, was declared âneurologicallyâ and âclinicallyâ dead, leading to her removal from lifeâsustaining apparatus (M)
S Korean Emb (Washington, DC) spokesman Kim Su says he knows nothing about dismissal of Korean CIA head Shin Jik Soo or other Cabinet shuffles; State Dept spokesman also says he has no information about reshuffle (M)
Hedrick Smith analysis of apptmt
Sign of econ deterioration is seen in Labor Dept rept for Nov showing that unemployment rate rise was primarily due to layoffs of adult men; Presâelect Carter says rept shows econ would probably need additional stimulus from Govt early in â77; says he will make no decision on issue, or on type of stimulus, until â77; Alan Greenspan says data showing growth in nonfarm payroll employment portends indus production expanded in Nov after declines in Sept and Oct (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 1, 1976, covering December 4, 1976.
Stevie Wonder
Rod Stewart
Boston
Earth| Wind & Fire
Led Zeppelin
1976Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater[â ]
Kristina Nicole Groves is a Canadian retired speed skater. She is Canada's most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: she won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit, and she won the silver medal in the 1500 m event and the bronze medal in the 3000 m event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
1976Betty Lennox, American basketball player[â ]
Betty Bernice Lennox is an American retired professional basketball player. She played for the Minnesota Lynx, Miami Sol, Cleveland Rockers, Seattle Storm, Atlanta Dream, Los Angeles Sparks and Tulsa Shock in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her nicknames include "Betty Basketball," "Betty Big Buckets," and her most popular nickname "B-Money."
1976Tommy Bolin, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1951)[â ]
Thomas Richard Bolin was an American rock guitarist who played with Zephyr, the James Gang and Deep Purple, in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and session musician, notably for Billy Cobham on his 1973 album Spectrum.
1976Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1913)[â ]
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
1976W. F. McCoy, Irish soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1886)[â ]
William Frederick McCoy was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for South Tyrone who went on to become an early supporter of Ulster nationalism.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]