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In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 18, 1978, covering January 22, 1978.
Soundtrack
Rod Stewart
Earth| Wind & Fire
Electric Light Orchestra
Fleetwood Mac
Shaun Cassidy
Queen
Neil Diamond
Styx
Billy Joel
1978Robert Esche, American ice hockey player and sports executive[â ]
Robert L. Esche is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who is the current president of the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Utica City FC of the Major Arena Soccer League (MASL). He previously played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers.
1978Chone Figgins, American baseball player[â ]
Desmond DeChone Figgins, nicknamed "Figgy", is an American former professional baseball third baseman and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Figgins was a utility player, playing all positions except catcher, pitcher, and first base.
1978Oliver Leese, English general (born 1894)[â ]
Lieutenant General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during both the world wars. He commanded XXX Corps in North Africa and Sicily, serving under General Sir Bernard Montgomery, before going on to command the Eighth Army in the Italian Campaign throughout most of 1944.
1978Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (born 1894)[â ]
Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars. His first-class debut was delayed by the First World War until 1919 and his career was effectively terminated in August 1939 when he was called up for military service in the imminent Second World War. He was the first cricketer to score 16 centuries in Test match cricket. He is most famous for being the partner of Jack Hobbs and the partnership between the two, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, is widely regarded as the greatest partnership of all time.
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Office buildings don't have skeletons in their closets: they have giant breathing machines.
SLEEPING out in a freezing drizzle in January? It seems that some things haven't changed since the founding of the Girl Scouts 66 years ago. There were the four tents, splashes bright green and orange among the browns of the winter woods in Mountain Lakes Park in North Salem.
Caputo says he has incurred wrath of many HR colleagues; says that during his stay in S Korea to witness Justice Dept questioning of Park Tong Sun, he spoke to Park personally about mutual friends, Cong, and other matters; says he declined Park invitation to visit his home, fearing it would be misunderstood; Caputo illus (M)
WASHINGTON - Tomorrow's release of President Car ter's first real budget, after weeks of debates, appeals and ritualistic leaks, will be seized on as the occasion to comment .on his Presidency. It will be measured against his many promises and goals and will tell much about how an Administration of militant outsiders has learned to cope with, submit to or subdue the inertia and momentum of Washington.
US Sec Vance's top aides say main issue delaying Israeli-Egyptian agreement on principles for Middle East agreement is question of which Palestinians would be permitted to participate in negotiations to determine future of Palestinians; Israeli Foreign Min Dayan says only Palestinians living on West Bank and in Gaza Strip would be included; Egypt rejects limitation (L)
Comment on proposal to be voted on by Three Village, NY, School Bd, giving parents procedure for complaining about books they find objectionable in schools; bd members John W Olness, Ann Coates, Ida Wehman and Duane Davis comment on issue of censorship; case involving removal of books at Island Trees school noted (M)
Roberto Duran (WBA champ) KOs Esteban DeJesus (WBC champ) in 12th round; illus (M)
UNIONDALE, L.L, Jan. 21—A rollicking capacity crowd that had beaten a hazardous path through the snow to get to Nassau Coliseum thundered its approval tonight as the New York Islanders routed the Philadelphia
Several years ago it would have been possible to maintain an air of hipness about contemporary movies if you were familiar with the films of Godard and Ozu, if you knew what a freeze‐frame was and you either subscribed to auteurism or sniffed haughtily at the merest mention of the word. Today that's not enough. Auteurists, who once threw bombs, now are the conservatives. Godard continues to work, though we see the results infrequently. Ozu has been as widely distributed as is probably possible in a country that is, essentially, non-Japanesespeaking, while Andy Warhol appears to have given up moviemaking, more or less, to concentrate on the serious business of partygoing.
PARIS, Jan. 21—When a star basketball player for Orthez in the top French league was killed in a car crash late in December, the team called up a replacement from its farm system.