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In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]
1977The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.[â ]
Kelly Barnes Dam was an earthen embankment dam on Toccoa Creek in Stephens County, Georgia, United States, just outside the city of Toccoa. Heavy rainfall caused it to collapse on November 6, 1977, and the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused $2.8Â million in damage. The dam was never rebuilt.
An economist for a New York bank was brooding bitterly over the future of the expense account lunch. “You're taught that there's virtue in working hard,” he said. “So you work hard, and just when you get to where you're about to enjoy some of the reward, you're hated and punished.”
Les Brown compares public TV series I, Claudius, BBC series on dissolute life in ancient Rome, with ABC-TV sex-oriented comedy series Soap; illus (M)
NY Times survey of educ trends notes many school systems are abolishing automatic or 'soc' promotion of pupils as minimum-competency movement grows nationwide; change attributed to concern over decline in mastery of basic skills and high percentage of Amers who are functionally illiterate; questions raised by issue noted; policies considered or implemented at various school dists discussed (M)
Johnny D wins
“If I were to contest these charges, I believe that grave and perhaps irreparable damage to the United States would result.” So Richard Helms said in explaining his ???????? last week to plead no‐contest to a misdemeanor. The plea bargain avoidéd a charge that Mr. Helms had committed perjury, a felony, when he swore to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the C.I.A. under his directorship had not aided the opponents of Chile's Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens. The Justice Department, too in explaining its reasons for making the bargain, emphasized the possible risk to national security.
For more than a year, Shirley Copperman, her brother Ira and her friend Steen Sigmund had been trying to open restaurant on Columbus Avenue in the seventies. Each time they thought they had a spot, it seemed another restaurant would pull in ahead.
The United States and the Soviet Union have been talking for 20 years about a ban on nuclear testing—and testing as they talked. Last week, the Soviet Union took the talk significantly further. Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, said Moscow would be willing to suspend nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes as well as undereround weapons tests. All other atomic testing—on the grouna, above the ground and under water—is prohibited by a 1963 treaty.
Roger Shattuck article on sculptural works of Alexander Calder; his designs for set of Erik Satie's Socrate described; drawing (M)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5—Unpredictable Harvard, which had lost three games in Harvard Stadium this season and six over the last two years, scored four touchdowns in the second period and went on to defeat Pennsylvani?? 34‐15, this gray afternoon.
Dr Yoon Berm Kim describes cancer research using pigs living in totally germ-free environment at Donald S Walker Laboratory of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center; illus; pig farm was designed by Stephen J Kagel in Rye, NY, to study biological immunity mechanisms (M)