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MOSCOW, Nov. 7—With the rattle of tank treads and the tramping of boots on Red Square, the Soviet Union celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with a parade this gray, snowy morning.
Port Auth admits giving advance data to Hilton Internatl Corp in bidding competition for contracts to run World Trade Center restaurants; NY Times finds Auth gave Hilton key consultant rept 6 mos before competing cos recd data and that Joseph Baum was preparing restaurant plans and bidding when he had already agreed to manage restaurants if Hilton won contract; Baum por; Controller Levitt probes issue as part of rev of Auth fiscal operations; Times reconstruction of contract bidding from Sept '70 detailed; 7 other cos had made tentative offers during '71 but Hilton offered more detailed bid in May '72, after receiving consultant rept; Baum shifted from Port Auth to Hilton work on day contract was signed, in Apr '74; Baum denies impropriety (M)
tight gubernatorial race between Henry Howell and Conservative Repub Lt Gov Dalton noted (S)
Fed Appeals Ct Chief Judge Irving R Kaufman, in suit filed by former Lt Col Anthony B Herbert, who contended that he was defamed by '73 '60 Minutes' program which cast doubt on his charges that Army officers covered up war atrocities, rules that journalists cannot be compelled to disclose thoughts and opinions that they held when preparing news stories; Kaufman and Herbert pors (M)
Defense Dept undertakes major study of Joint Chiefs of Staff that could lead to significant overhaul of structure of nation's mil command; far-reaching study, being made at request of Pres Carter, reptdly has stirred resentment among sr officers in Pentagon who fear that Defense Sec Brown is seeking to blunt influence of mil leaders; will attempt to define role of Joint Chiefs and overhaul separate mil command structure beneath mil leaders; current structure of Joint Chiefs discussed; chmn Gen George S Brown illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1977, covering November 8, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Linda Ronstadt
Steely Dan
Foreigner
The Rolling Stones
1977Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[†]
Jully Black is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. She has released 4 studio albums, and 2 remix EPs. She has collaborated and written for many artists, including Nas, Saukrates, Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, Destiny's Child, and Sean Paul.
1977Bucky Covington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
William Joel "Bucky" Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Dale Oliver and Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "A Different World" at number six, "It's Good to Be Us" at number eleven, and "I'll Walk" at number ten. Three more singles: "I Want My Life Back", "Gotta Be Somebody", and "A Father's Love ", were released for an unreleased second album, titled I'm Alright, and later included on his 2012 album, Good Guys.
1977Nick Punto, American baseball player[†]
Nicholas Paul Punto is an American former professional baseball infielder and current coach for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Oakland Athletics. With the Cardinals, he won the 2011 World Series over the Texas Rangers. He has also played for the Italian national baseball team in the World Baseball Classic.
1977Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (born 1931)[†]
Anastasios (Tasos) Giannopoulos was a Greek actor. He was born in 1931 and died of cancer on November 8, 1977, at the age of 46. He was famous as Kitsos in his movies.
1977Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (born 1896)[†]
Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris was an American professional baseball second baseman, manager and executive. While Harris played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers, it was his long managerial career that led to his enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1975.
1977Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.[†]
Manolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]