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domestic new car sales for Mar 11-20 are lower than expected and only match '75 performance; annual selling rate for Mar 1-20 drops to 9.8-million level from high of 11-million for Mar 1-10; only Ford Motor posts sales increase; execs and analysts weigh adverse impact of GM's move toward standardized engines; other comments noted; sales breakdown by co; table (M)
NYC Comptroller Goldin reveals NYC Employees Retirement System, Fire Dept and Police Pension Funds, operating in great secrecy under code name, traded almost $500,000 worth of common stock to improve stock portfolios; investment maneuver described
HR, 217-205, rejects common situs picketing bill, which would have allowed pickets of construction union striking single contractor to shut down entire bldg site; vote, considered upset for organized labor, follows intensive lobbying by contractor assns, Natl Right to Work Com and others; Repr Frank Thompson Jr, bill sponsor, blames lobbying for defeat; says more active support by Pres Carter might have helped; Georgine scores defeat; Repr John M Ashbrook, who engineered defeat, comments; opposition to bill by Repr Mickey Edwards and others noted (M)
Brookings Inst rept prepared by Edward M Gramlich suggests 'youth differential' submimimum wage be adopted if minimum wage is increased to 60% of avg mfg hrly earnings (M)
Louisiana natural-gas production has fallen 37% since '70; revenues from severance tax on oil and gas fell to $489.9-million in current fiscal yr from $515.7-million in '75-77, and oil and gas royalty income fell to $163-million; Tex is said to have same problems, though not so severely; James H Gibbens (Texaco), state Repr Kevin P Reilly, Tex RR Comr Jon Newton, La Legis official Joseph F Kyle and Sec William C Huls comment; illus; graph of oil and gas production '67-76 (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 1977, covering March 24, 1977.
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Stevie Wonder
The Steve Miller Band
1977Olivia Burnette, American actress[†]
Olivia Burnette is an American actress who began her career as a child actress at the age of six. She is perhaps best known for her role in the NBC sitcom The Torkelsons (1991–1993), Homeless Woman in Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), and Steve Martin's daughter in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). That film was her first acting job.
1977Jessica Chastain, American actress[†]
Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in projects with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.
1977Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Maxim Romanovich Kuznetsov is a Kazakhstan-born Russian former professional ice hockey player. Kuznetsov was drafted in the 1st round by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
1977Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.[†]
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian politician and independence activist who served as the prime minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as the chief minister of Bombay State, the home minister, the finance minister, and the deputy prime minister.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]