For Networks, New Rival
Operation Prime Time produced The Bastard at cost of $3.6 million for consortium of ind TV stations and affiliates of 3 major networks; illus (M)
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Operation Prime Time produced The Bastard at cost of $3.6 million for consortium of ind TV stations and affiliates of 3 major networks; illus (M)
Natl Cancer Inst (NCI) plans major policy shift in fighting cancer; dir Arthur C Upton says agency is returning to view that cancer represents 1 of central and most complex puzzles of biology and that research strategy should be based on wide‐ranging investigations; indicates that, under reorgn, rev and evaluation function will be separate from grant‐giving function (M)
Greek Independence Day parade held, Manhattan; focus is on disputed Cyprus and its visiting Greek Cypriot Pres Spyros Kyprianou, who heads parade with Gov Carey and Abp Iakovos, primate of Greek Orthodox Ch of North and South Amer; illus (S)
Article on increasing number of supermarkets that have restaurants in order to compete with fast‐food chains; illus; graphs (M)
The gasoline business is changing. With the start of the summer driving season upon us, retailers are finding their market shares shifting and experts say that the new marketing patterns will eventually have a profound impact on how and at what level consumers buy their gasoline. (D1.)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 1978, covering May 22, 1978.
Soundtrack
Wings
Eric Clapton
Chuck Mangione
Jefferson Starship
1978Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress[†]
Ginnifer Goodwin is an American actress. She starred as Margene Heffman in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), Judy Hopps in Zootopia (2016), and Beth Ann Stanton in Why Women Kill (2019).
1978Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model[†]
Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Price is an English media personality and model. She gained recognition in the late 1990s for her glamour modelling work, including on Page 3 of the tabloid newspaper The Sun, under the pseudonym Jordan.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]