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BOISE, Idaho, May 4—J. R. Simplot, who is known as Idaho's potato king, was charged today with eight felony violations of Federal income tax laws.
WASHINGTON, May 9—Business enterprises, cities, states and individuals, including 120,000 Americans who work overseas, would all gain from the tax reduction and simplification bill that was approved by House‐Senate conferees last
ORLANDO, Fla., May 4—The International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation today reported gains in first‐quarter sales revenues and earnings but received another blast of criticism from religious groups for its activities in Chile, in
PARIS, May 4—The United States and Vietnam made progress today toward normalization of relations, with the United States pledging that it would not veto Vietnam's admission to the United Nations and that it would lift a trade embar
WASHINGTON, May 4—President Carter has approved sugar subsidies of up to 2 cents a pound to help the ailing domestic sugar industry but he vetoed any tightening of the import quota, the White House announced today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 4, 1977, covering May 5, 1977.
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
1977Tiffany Roberts, American footballer[†]
Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak is an American soccer coach, former defender, and Olympic gold medalist. She was also a member of the 1999 U.S. national team that won the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. She became the 16th player in U.S. history to play over 100 matches for her country and was a founding member of the WUSA, the first women's professional soccer league in the United States. She is currently head coach of the women's soccer team at the University of Central Florida.
1977Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)[†]
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard was a German politician and economist affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic reforms and economic recovery in his role as Minister of Economic Affairs under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1949 to 1963. During that period he promoted the concept of the social market economy, on which Germany's economic policy in the 21st century continues to be based.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]