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In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]
1977Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1909)[†]
Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham was the ninth Governor-General of New Zealand and an English cricketer from the Lyttelton family.
1977Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (born 1919)[†]
Terukuni Manzō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ogachi, Akita. He was the sport's 38th yokozuna. He was promoted to yokozuna without any top division tournament titles to his name, although he later attained two.
Comptroller Levitt urges shifting power to determine size of estate tax from Surrogate Ct to State Tax Dept; says dept estimates $10-million in estate taxes due NYS have gone unpaid; sees saving of $15-million in operating costs by relieving cts of burden of setting estate tax; Surrogates Assn disagrees on savings; says it would cost $4-million for Tax Dept to set up legal and audit staff; surrogates and supporters in legal profession have barred change in law for last 50 yrs (M)
OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN WAGON: Indians in Raghpat, north of Delhi, campaigning by buffalo cart against Congress Party of Indira Gandhi. Page
Profile of Francis T Purcell, Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor and Repub County Exec aspirant (M)
Carter expected to ask Cong to amend voting laws to eliminate all regis requirements and clear more than 45-million additional Amers to participate in '80 Pres election; proposal detailed (M)
Congo radio repts that Ngouabi was killed by assassin at official residence, Brazzaville; power passes to 11-man mil com; assassins reptdly led by former Army capt Bethelemy Kikadidi, who is being sought by authorities; former Pres Alphonse Massamba-Debat also implicated; pol situation since '60 and Ngouabi's rise to power revd; synopsis of Congo's soc, mil and political systems; por (M)
Marks 71st birthday; illus with birthday cake with Gov Carey and Manhattan Boro Pres Percy E Sutton looking on (S)
US aid to Zaire after repts of invasion by mercenaries from Angola revd (M)
Article on increasing trend toward living alone in US and consequent econ and soc changes; Census Bur in Feb reptd adults under 35 who live alone more than doubled since '70 despite uncertain econ; specific cases cited; illus of Eleanor Holmes, living along in Seattle; sociologists and psychologists comment; charts (L)
Article offers students tips on finding summer jobs in NJ; listings of NJ Employment Offices and of some restaurants and local attractions that will be hiring teen-agers for summer; illus (M)
Yugoslavia halts 1 operation smuggling blue jeans across Idria River from Italy; trade curbs in Communist nations have produced extensive black markets in popular Western apparel (S)