Music Hall Stays Open
Radio City Music Hall will stay open under an agreement reached between the Urban Development Corporation and Rockefeller Center Inc. Page B4.
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Radio City Music Hall will stay open under an agreement reached between the Urban Development Corporation and Rockefeller Center Inc. Page B4.
US Sec Vance departs Washington for visit to southern Africa and USSR; private criticisms by White House officials over Vance's ability to deal with Russians noted; officials fear Vance and sr Soviet adviser Marshall Shulman may have undercut Pres Carter's tough Wake Forest, NC, speech by making Soviet' officials aware of conciliatory parts of speech; Vance will meet with Brezhnev and Gromyko; Vance illus (M)
ONE LIVES in a fashionable part of midtown. The other lives behind City Hall on a block lined with warehouses. One looks out her window at the Museum of Modern Art's sculpture Barden the other watches tugboats huffing up the Hudson. One owns a co‐op, the other has a loft. Locations notwithstanding, when it comes to re‐doing an apartment, both believe in budgets and the virtues of moving walls.
Article on business complaints about rising cost of complying with Fed Govt regulations and paperwork it entails; cartoon (M)
Port Auth Youth Services Unit catches over 100 runaways a mo in midtown Manhattan terminal; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1978, covering April 13, 1978.
Soundtrack
Eric Clapton
Barry Manilow
Billy Joel
George Benson
1978Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer[â ]
Carles Puyol Saforcada is a Spanish former professional footballer who played his entire career for Barcelona. Considered one of the greatest football defenders ever and one of the sport's greatest ever captains, he mainly played as a centre-back, but could also play in either full-back position, mostly as a right-back.
1978Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (born 1931)[â ]
John Richard Chambers was an artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, Chambers' painting style shifted from surrealist-influenced to photo-realist-influenced. He used the term "Perceptual Realism" and later "perceptualism" to describe his style. He began working with film in the 1960s, completing six by 1970. Stan Brakhage proclaimed Chambers' The Hart of London as "one of the greatest films ever made."
1978Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (born 1900)[â ]
Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON, also known as Funmilayo AnĂkĂșlĂĄpĂł-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]