Players Pick Ideal Teams
NY Times poll of players shows some major disagreements with fans selections; illus; chart compares selections (M)
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NY Times poll of players shows some major disagreements with fans selections; illus; chart compares selections (M)
Feb 6: Carter and Sadat return to Washington after 2 days of intensive talks at Camp David; both agree to make unremitting efforts to restart stalled peace talks; pledge to take all steps necessary to achieve âtangibleâ results and broadening of negotiations; agree that Asst Sec Alfred Atherton should return to Middle East in attempt to secure declaration of principles between Israel and Egypt; Sadat says he and Carter surveyed entire situation, NBC-TV int; says he explained to Carter reasoning behind break-off of Jerusalem peace talks; cites Israel's decision to âthickenâ existing settlements in Sinai (M)
Econ situation of steel town described; illus (L)
Vietnam orders Dinh Ba Thi home; Dinh says he will confront US officials to deny allegations that he committed espionage before leaving; Dinh illus (M)
Sen conferees are reptdly moving toward compromise along lines of Sen Jackson's latest proposal; Jackson defends proposal during Face the Nation int, saying it will give deregulation a trial in '85 while preventing prices from going up too fast; Adm adds $20 billion to its estimate of how much it will cost consumers to continue with present regulatory system; how various reforms would affect figure noted (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 1978, covering February 6, 1978.
Soundtrack
Rod Stewart
Earth| Wind & Fire
Queen
Electric Light Orchestra
1978Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer-songwriter[â ]
Yael Naim is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, the French government made her a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
1978The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65Â mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.[â ]
The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following the local convention promoted by the Travelers Weather Service on television and radio stations there. Snow fell mostly from Monday morning, February 6 to the evening of Tuesday, February 7. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts were hit especially hard by this storm.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]