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Saudi Foreign Min Prince Saud al-Faisal's application for co-op at 640 Park Av is rejected by bldg's residents; sources says several tenants feared possibility of large, noisy parties and pol violence in bldg (M)
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A selling wave engulfed the stock market yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 19.75 points in its biggest one‐day drop in more than two years. Only 262 issued showed a gain while 1,327 stocks declined.
Carter weighs changes in plan to make pkg more palatable politically but would violate mandate to hold total welfare costs at current level; changes include 1 that will address demand of NYC Mayor Beame and other mayors for some measure of fiscal relief to local govts; other changes noted (M)
over 185 homes in Santa Barbara, Calif, each worth about $100,000, are destroyed by fire that devastates large parts of city; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1977, covering July 28, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Frampton
Barbra Streisand
Kiss
Barry Manilow
1977Aki Berg, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Aki-Petteri Arvid Berg is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted third overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He played both for the Kings and the Toronto Maple Leafs over nine seasons and has represented Team Finland twice at the Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, a silver medal at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey in which Finland lost in the finals to host Canada, and a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Olympics.
1977Manu Ginóbili, Argentinian basketball player[†]
Emanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili is an Argentine former professional basketball player. Credited for popularizing the Euro step move in the NBA, he is regarded as one of the greatest shooting guards and sixth men in the league's history and as the greatest Latin American player of all time and is often considered one of the greatest draft steals in NBA history, along with Nikola Jokić. Ginóbili notably led Argentina to a gold medal-winning the FIBA Olympics MVP award in Athens 2004, and achieving with his team the only elimination of a US NBA team in the history of this competition. Over a 23-year professional career, Ginóbili became one of only two players to have won a EuroLeague title, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. A four-time NBA champion, Ginóbili was a member of the San Antonio Spurs for his entire 16-year NBA career. Along with Spurs teammates Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, Ginóbili was known as one of the "Big Three" during the Spurs' era of success. During their playing years together, the Spurs became a "model franchise" for other NBA teams. Since September 2021, Ginóbili had been appointed as special advisor to basketball operations for the Spurs.
1977Miyabiyama Tetsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Miyabiyama Tetsushi is a former sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1998. With the exception of two tournaments, he was ranked in the top division of professional sumo from 1999 until the end of his career in 2013, holding the second highest rank of ōzeki from 2000 to 2001. He won eight special prizes and was runner-up in four top division tournaments. He wrestled for Fujishima stable, where he worked as a coach until opening his own Futagoyama stable.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]