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In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]
1977Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author[†]
Elisabeth DelPadre Hasselbeck is an American television personality and talk show host. She rose to prominence in 2001 as a contestant on the second season of the American version of Survivor, where she finished in fourth place. She married NFL player Tim Hasselbeck the following year.
1977The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed by fire, killing 165 people inside.[†]
On the evening of May 28, 1977, a fire occurred at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. With a total of 165 deaths and over 200 injuries, it is history's seventh deadliest nightclub fire.
HR Defense Appropriations Subcom proposes elimination of practice of 'double-dipping' and also hold Govt jobs which bestow additional pension benefits (M)
NYS Regents Bd elects exec deputy Gordon M K Ambach as outgoing NYS Educ Comr Ewald B Nyquist's successor; choice considered surprising, in view of Ambach's close identification with Nyquist and his policies and expressed desire of several Regents to select someone outside state's educ bureaucracy; Ambach and Nyquist illus (L)
US Sup Ct Chief Justice Burger, speaking at conf sponsored by Amer Bar Assn at Columbia Univ Law School, warns that unless new ways were found to settle disputes, country might be 'overrun by hordes of lawyers hungry as locusts'; says people want quick, inexpensive relief from their legal problems (M)
team of Dutch psychiatrists continues negotiations with S Moluccan terrorists; Dutch Govt officials, psychiatrists and some of released children comment; illus (M)
Sen Select Com on Small Business, FTC and Justice Dept are investigating monopolistic practices in sale of eyeglasses that may cost Amer consumers as much as $400-million a yr in excessive prices; com hearings show prices Fed agencies pay for glasses are only fraction of those customarily charged to most private buyers in open mkt; prices in 45 states that prohibit or limit ad of prices are 25-40% higher than in states that permit ad; Amer Optometric Assn opposes ad; assn pres Ron G Fair comments; other witnesses testify; drawing (M)
Pres Carter makes dive aboard nuclear-powered submarine Los Angeles with Adm Hyman G Rickover; says there is no finer ship in the world; illus at controls of vessel with Rickover and on bridge with Capt J C Christiansen; map depicting point of dive in Atlantic Ocean; Los Angeles described (M)
Trudeau and his wife jointly announce they have separated and that Mr Trudeau will have custody of their 3 sons; illus (M)
Beame accepts $1.10 to settle NYC's $250,000 suit against Willig, news conf, City Hall; illus (L)
article on Afars and Issas, which will become ind on June 27; illus; map (L)
US Amb Robert F Goheen, after New Delhi conf with Prime Min Morarji R Desai, says US will resume supplying enriched uranium India's nuclear power plant near Bombay; says later talks will be held on mutual desire of both countries to prevent spread of nuclear weapons (M)
IL-62 crash near Havana, Cuba, kills 66 of 68 persons aboard; craft, en route from Moscow, crashes 1/2-mi from airport while attempting emergency landing (S)