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Portugal's voters give minority Socialist Party Govt qualified vote of confidence in local elections held Dec 12; with returns in from 95% of 4,035 voting dists, Socialists are in lead with 33.11% of vote; other results noted
Electoral College meets for 48th time on Dec 13 to choose Pres; Jimmy Carter receives 297 votes, Pres Ford 240 and Ronald Reagan 1; controversy over Coll's usefulness noted (L)
Detailed background rept on Ronald and Raymond Timmons, 19-yr-old NYC twins, and factors which may have contributed to their practice of preying on elderly; Ronald illus (L)
Carter expected to name Blumenthal Treas Sec; Powell declines to confirm rept about Blumenthal or speculation on apptmts of Jane Cahill Pfeiffer as Commerce Sec, Repr Bob Bergland as Agr Sec and Dr Harold Brown as Defense Sec; Carter sources say Charles L Schultze will be named Council of Econ Advisers Chmn; Repr Andrew Young is reptdly being considered as chief US repr to UN; Blumenthal, Pfeiffer pors (L)
McDonnell says NYC taxicab fleet owners and Taxi Drivers Union Local 3036 have reached tentative pact; owners will seek 13% fare increase to meet higher operating expenses and increased labor costs resulting from pact; fleet owners spokesman Arthur Gore, Taxi Comm Chmn Moses L Kove and union atty Donald F Menagh comment; chart indicates how increase will affect fares; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 8, 1976, covering December 14, 1976.
Stevie Wonder
Rod Stewart
Boston
Earth| Wind & Fire
Led Zeppelin
1976Tammy Blanchard, American actress and singer[†]
Tammy Blanchard is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her role as teenage Judy Garland in the critically acclaimed television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her other notable film roles were in The Good Shepherd (2006), Sybil (2007), Into the Woods (2014) and The Invitation (2015).
1976Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter[†]
Leland Blane Chapman is an American bail bondsman and bounty hunter, known as one of the stars of the A&E Network reality television program Dog the Bounty Hunter. He also starred in the CMT television documentary Dog and Beth: On the Hunt.
1976Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby player[†]
Sebastien Chaule is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TSV Handschuhsheim until 2012 in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. His greatest success as a national team player was the promotion to Division 1 of the European Nations Cup in 2008.
1976André Couto, Portuguese race car driver[†]
André Bragança Macedo e Couto is a Macanese motor racing driver who is best known for winning his home F3 Grand Prix in 2000 and the 2015 Super GT Series in the GT300 class.
1976Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer[†]
Santiago 'Santi' Ezquerro Marín is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]