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In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]
1977Ben Ainslie, English sailor[â ]
Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie is a British competitive sailor. Ainslie is the most successful sailor in Olympic history. He won medals at five consecutive Olympics from 1996 onwards, including gold at four consecutive Games from 2000 to 2012.
1977Adam Dykes, Australian rugby league player[â ]
Adam Dykes is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the National Rugby League for Sydney clubs, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Parramatta Eels, and in the Super League for English club Hull FC. Dykes' usual position was five-eighth, though he has also been shuffled around the backs during his career, playing minor parts of it at both lock and in the halfback role. He is the father of Kade Dykes.
1977Adam Everett, American baseball player and coach[â ]
Jeffery Adam Everett is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played college baseball for both the NC State Wolfpack and South Carolina Gamecocks. He was drafted in the first round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft and established himself for his defensive prowess as the starting shortstop for the Houston Astros in 2003. Everett continued his involvement in baseball as a roving infield instructor for the Astros minor league system, and was named bench coach for the Astros on September 1, 2014.
1977Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1894)[â ]
Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.
US and USSR have highâenergy beams of charged subatomic particles that would destroy incoming nuclear missiles; Amer information on Soviet particleâbeam program discussed (M)
Campaign finance repts filed with Fed Election Comm show that pol action coms sponsored by unions, corps and professional assns provided nearly 2/3 of money that 15 major HR com chmn spent to win reâelection in Nov, including Repr Harold T Johnson, who recd $15,100 from special interest groups (S)
top Mayor Beame advisers, reversing position of 4 yrs ago, agree to elimination of runoff primary, thus making it virtually certain there will be only 1 primary for mayoral, City Council Pres and Comptroller nominations this yr; both Dem and Repub leaders had tentatively agreed on June 7 date for initial primary but Dems were awaiting word from Beame; New Dem Coalition chmn Frances Bennick reiterates coalition's support of runoff and scores Beame's role in runoff negotiations (M)
At least 12 persons killed and more than 160 injured in crash of Chicago (III) elevated train into back of another in busy Loop intersection; Feb 4; 4 train cars crash to street, leaving 2 others dangling from tracks; scores of passengers manage to crawl out of smashed windows and reach safety; many others pinned inside; trainmen reptdly had experienced difficulty in moving switches minutes earlier; Chicago TA chmn James J McDonough says electronic signal malfunction is possible cause of accident; says equipment should have prevented motorman from getting close to 1st train; some accident victims comment; illus; map (M)
drawing; Anthony J Califano wins 1st prize of $980,000; illus (M)
BLS Comr Julius Shiskin says avg workweek dropped sharply in Jan '77, with most of decline coming from outdoor industries, Joint Econ Com testimony (M)
Sen, 89â1, approves wateredâdown com reorganization plan; intensive lobbying results in reinstatement of 10 of 16 coms scheduled for elimination; Sen majority leader Robert C Byrd expresses disappointment that original proposal, whose chief architect was Sen Adlai E Stevenson 3d, will not be followed; Sen minority leader Howard H Baker Jr says he is not pleased with final plan; listing of coms following reorganization, and of coms being abolished (M)
White House press sec Jody Powell says Carter holds confirmation of Warnke is âcrucialâ to his Adm; John Muravchik says he helped draft memo by Coalition for Dem Majority and gave it to some people, but before he started working for Sen Patrick Moynihan; Sec Vance, in int with AP and UPI, says there is no âlinkageâ between arms control and such issues with USSR as human rights (M)
Article on pol career; por (M)
State Dept optimistic talks can begin soon (S)