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NY Times/Channel 2 News natl survey in July on attitudes toward looting during NYC blackout shows non-New Yorkers were more inclined to link unemployment with looting than New Yorkers; chart (S)
Beame's primary opponents take views ranging from condemnatory to sympathetic about SEC rept charging that Beame had misled investors about city's financial difficulties (M)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—The Securities and Exchange Commission's staff report that today charged New York City's underwriters with misleading the investing public, said some of them were reducing or eliminating their own holdings of the city's securities at the same time they were urging small investors to purchase the city's. debt.
Jody Powell confirms disclosure that Lance used single block of bank shares as collateral for 2 separate loans from 2 different banks at same time; action is termed 'innocent mistake'; recent Fed rept holds Lance gave Chem Bank of NY 14,811 shares of stock in Natl Bank of Ga to secure $150,000 loan in May '76, but that he later pledged same block of stock to Mfrs Hanover as part of collateral for $2.6-million loan in June '75; Powell says Lance's contract with Manufacturers Hanover was not an unethical act; Lance's dealings with 2 banks detailed (M)
news analysis of SEC rept on NYC's financial practices (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 24, 1977, covering August 27, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Soundtrack
James Taylor
Barbra Streisand
1977Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer[†]
Anderson Luís de Souza, also known as Deco, is a Brazilian-born Portuguese former professional footballer who primarily played as an attacking or central midfielder. Born and raised in Brazil, he acquired Portuguese citizenship and played for Portugal. He currently works as sporting director for Barcelona.
1977Justin Miller, American baseball player (died 2013)[†]
Justin Mark Miller was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines. Miller was the inspiration for the "Justin Miller rule" requiring pitchers with arm tattoos to wear long-sleeved shirts.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]