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Article on Cornell University Cooperative program under which garbage-littered lots in rundown secs of NYC will become vegetable gardens; residents of areas will do farming under guidance of Cornell staff; illus (M)
High winds, rough seas delay efforts to cap North Sea oil-well blowout; 650,000 to 1-million gals estimated to have spilled into water since Apr 22; slick extends 25 mi to east; Phillips offshore mgr Forrest Morgan optimistic on capping efforts; little possibility of fire seen; Adair operations and reaction in Norway discussed; repair ship illus; map (M)
TRENTON, April 25—After more than eight hours of debate, the State Assembly approved tonight a bill for regulating casinos in Atlantic City that would allow gambling on roulette, baccarat, blackjack, dice, big‐six wheels and slot machines from 10 A.M. to 4 A.M. weekdays and 10 A.M. to 6 A.M. on weekends and holidays.
Mayor Beame expected to ask corp to make Kummerfeld its top policy maker and to accept Joseph I Lynaugh, former agency critic, to replace ousted pres Holloman (M)
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1977, covering April 26, 1977.
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Stevie Wonder
Kansas
1977Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut[†]
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022.
1977Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player[†]
Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball from 2008 to 2012, primarily with the Chicago Cubs and had a long spanning career in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Chunichi Dragons and Hanshin Tigers.
1977Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author[†]
Roxana Saberi is an American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News. In 2009, she was held prisoner in Iran's Evin Prison for 101 days under accusations of espionage. She subsequently wrote a book about the experience.
1977Tom Welling, American actor[†]
Thomas John Patrick Welling is an American actor, director, producer, podcaster, and model. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent in The WB superhero drama Smallville (2001–2011). He also co-starred in the third season of the Fox fantasy comedy-drama Lucifer as Lt. Marcus Pierce/Cain (2017–2018).
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]