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Berkowitz sketch as provided by neighbors, former acquaintances and co-workers; suspect seen as study in extreme and varied contrast; illus (M)
A man and a woman were found shot to death in a car in Wyandanch, L. I. The police discounted comparisons with the “Son of Sam” slayings. Page 23.
Heimann has reptdly widened his investigation of Lance's financial dealings to include loans that may have indirectly benefited him; is searching bank records for about 20 loans that may have been extended to his wife, other members of family and business entities; in addition to investigation of transactions by Lance with Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Co of NYC and First Natl Bank of Chicago, Fed investigators are concentrating on Lance's relationship with Jack Butcher's United Amer Bank of Knoxville and are searching records of United Amer Bank of Nashville, in which Butcher has interest; Heimann is reviewing records of loans made to Vance or his wife by Northwest Georgia Bank, Roswell Bank of Ga, Ga Railroad Banking and Trust Co of Augusta, C & S Natl Bank of Ga and Natl Bank of Ga (L)
USSR physicist Rem V Khokhlov, who recently was rescued by helicopter from Communist Peak, Soviet Union's highest mt, dies of complications from illness contracted on mt; map; por (M)
Army Bd for Correction of Mil Records offers 'sympathy' to Antoinette Slovik, crippled, destitute widow of Pvt Eddie Slovik, only US soldier executed for desertion in World War II, but rejects her request to reverse his conviction so that she could collect $68,000 in Govt life ins benefits; says it could find nothing legally improper in execution; rejects Mrs Slovik's request that her husband's remains be removed from unmarked grave in France; findings were approved by Army Sec Alexander; Mrs Slovik's lawyer Bernard Edelson says appeal in Fed ct is being considered; says he plans appeal on 'humanitarian grounds' to Pres Carter; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 1977, covering August 13, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Barbra Streisand
Peter Frampton
Kiss
1977Michael Klim, Polish-Australian swimmer[†]
Michael George Klim, OAM is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s. He is known as the creator of straight-arm freestyle.
1977Kenyan Weaks, American basketball player and coach[†]
Kenyan Weaks is a retired American professional basketball player. He is 1.98 m shooting guard–small forward.
1977Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.[†]
The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin. A minor party, it has never had its representatives elected to the British or European Parliaments, although it gained a small number of local councillors through defections and it has had a few of its representatives elected to community councils. Founded in 1967, it reached the height of its electoral support during the mid-1970s, when it was briefly England's fourth-largest party in terms of vote share.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]