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GAO concludes that some hair dyes may pose significant cancer hazard because they are known or suspected causes of cancer in humans or lab animals; urges that hair dye chems no longer be exempt from Fed safety rules and that FDA require label warning for dyes that contain cancer-causing ingredients (M)
Lack of drs in S Bronx neighborhood described; shared-health facilities offer only health care available; neighborhood residents comment; illus (M)
L Silk cites work of IBM economists Seymour Hammelstein and Larry Chimerine that casts doubt on commonly held view that lag in capital spending is due to low level of corp profits; charts (M)
MIAMI—Investigators from five Federal and local agencies are actively pursuing here one of the largest financial fraud inquiries in recent history.
The stock market yesterday ignored the slump of the dollar abroad and news of lower domestic automobile aales as the Dow Jones industrial average showed late strength to post its first noteworthy gain of the week. Finishing at 822.68, the Dow ran ahead 7.45 points after displaying minimal changes on Monday and Tuesday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 1977, covering December 15, 1977.
Linda Ronstadt
Fleetwood Mac
Commodores
Rod Stewart
Lynyrd Skynyrd
1977Mehmet AurĂ©lio, Brazilian-Turkish footballer and manager[â ]
Mehmet AurĂ©lio, originally Marco AurĂ©lio Brito dos Prazeres, is a football coach and former defensive midfielder. Formed at Flamengo, where he made over 100 appearances, AurĂ©lio spent most of his career in Turkey, making 254 SĂŒper Lig appearances and scoring 29 goals for Trabzonspor, Fenerbahçe and BeĆiktaĆ, winning three league titles with the second of them. He also played two seasons in La Liga for Real Betis.
1977Geoff Stults, American actor and producer[â ]
Geoffrey Stults is an American actor. His first regular roles on television included 7th Heaven, October Road, and Happy Town. He went on to star as Major Walter Sherman on The Finder and Sgt. Pete Hill on Enlisted. Most recently, he played Mark McCullough on Little Fires Everywhere, Marco Strzalkowski on Guilty Party, and Jake Davis on The Last Thing He Told Me. He also played the recurring role of Mitch in the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie. His film roles include Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, She's Out of My League, Only the Brave, and 12 Strong.
1977Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (born 1893)[â ]
Wilfred Kitching CBE was a British Salvation Army officer who was their seventh General between 1954 and 1963.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]