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WASHINGTON. July 17—“What we have,” says Max Serchuck, “is more than 800 million years of experience walking around. Surely, 800 million years of experience can still make a contribution to American life.”
Mayor Beanie asked labor, business and banking leaders yesterday to join the city in a multimillion‐dollar “rescue fund” to provide immediate cash grants to small businesses that were devastated by looting, vandalism and arson in the blackout that hit New York City and Westchester County last week.
ALBANY, July. 17—The Legislature's bicentennial session, which finally straggled to a close Friday, provided a mirror for the mood of an electorate troubled by crime and a lagging economy, markedly less concerned than in
Prime Minister Menahem Begin of Israel ?old visitors in New York yesterday. according to a prominent American rabbi. that he planned to make public the substance of his Middle East peace plan at a news conference immediately after preseating it privately to President Carter this week, if the President agreed.
ROME, July. 17—Making the rounds of old friends in Rome these days, a former resident was startled to find that quite a few of them had removed their nameplates from their apartment doors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 13, 1977, covering July 18, 1977.
Barry Manilow
Peter Frampton
Fleetwood Mac
The Steve Miller Band
Barbra Streisand
1977Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author[†]
Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Morozevich is a two-time World Championship candidate, two-time Russian champion and has represented Russia in seven Chess Olympiads, winning numerous team and board medals.
1977Kelly Reilly, English actress[†]
Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly is an English actress. She first appeared on screen in 1995 on the series The Biz. Her other television work includes starring roles in the British crime drama Above Suspicion (2009–2012), the American psychological medical drama Black Box (2014), the American anthology crime drama True Detective (2015) and the historical fantasy drama Britannia (2018). Between 2018 and 2024, she played Beth Dutton on the Paramount Network neo-Western drama series Yellowstone, opposite Kevin Costner.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]