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Chinese officials disclose that July 28 '76 earthquake in heart of Tangshan City, which registered between 7.8 and 8.2 on Richter scale, was most deadly one since 1556; devastation of quake described; maps depict Tangshan quake area and comparable area in NYC (L)
Justice Dept and Equal Employment Opportunity Comm officials decline comment on Sup Ct ruling; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund official Jack Greenberg, AFL-CIO civil rights dir William Pollard, NAACP natl labor dir Herbert Hill, Amer Jewish Cong Washington (DC) repr Hyman Bookbinder, private consultant Todd Jagerson and Ct dissenters Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J Brennan comment (M)
Carter Adm plan to revise welfare system is designed to save billions of dollars by tightening eligibility requirements; under plan, benefits would be withheld for many children who live with grandparents and from some seasonal workers; unmarried teen-age mothers and children and migrant workers reptdly would suffer most hardship under new rules; Adm officials say technical changes in eligibility rules could save Fed Govt $3-billion annually; some experts outside Govt reptdly are extremely critical of new requirements; most important changes would expand 'accountable period,' which is time over which family's income is calculated in determining whether it is eligible for relief and would expand 'filing unit,' which is definition of what constitutes family (M)
US offers to alter deployment if USSR undertakes 'serious negotiations' on limitation of strategic nuclear weapons (M)
With show‐business celebrities at the press tables and a Dixieland combo next to the dais playing “I like New York in June,” Bella S. Abzug yesterday threw her hat—a big‐brimmed black straw—into the race for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1977, covering June 2, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Eagles
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Marvin Gaye
1977Teet Allas, Estonian footballer[†]
Teet Allas is a retired Estonian professional footballer. He played the position of defender.
1977A.J. Styles, American wrestler[†]
Allen Neal Jones, better known by his ring name AJ Styles, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand.
1977Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer[†]
Zachary John Quinto is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010); Spock in the film Star Trek (2009) and its sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016); Charlie Manx in the AMC series NOS4A2, and Dr. Oliver Thredson in American Horror Story: Asylum, for which he received a nomination for an Emmy Award. He stars in and produces Brilliant Minds, a medical drama on NBC. His other starring film roles include Margin Call (2011), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), Snowden (2016), and Hotel Artemis (2018). He also appeared in smaller roles on television series, such as So Notorious, The Slap, and 24, and on stage in Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie, and Smokefall.
1977Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (born 1952)[†]
Albert Bittlmayer was a German footballer who made a combined total of 142 league appearances for 1. FC Nürnberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin until he died of cancer at the age of 24.
1977Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish-born American actor (born 1931)[†]
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He received his second Golden Globe nomination for the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962).
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]