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Article on efforts in larger US cities to 'preserve neighborhood character' from developers of high-rise apt bldgs; community orgns appear to be having increasing success in temporarily blocking developers' efforts, although some experts question ultimate effect of such victories (M)
Kennecott claims clear-cut victory; Curtiss-Wright challenges this, saying tally was so close that it will sue to start proxy battle all over again (S)
After 219 days, energy conferees approved a natural gas pricing package. But the narrow votes by which Senate and House conferees approved lifting controls on natural gas by 1985 reflected still‐deep division. But now the conferees can get on with other unassembled pieces of the Administration's energy program. [Page A1.]
Article on Somerville Depot of GSA, 880-acre site, Somerville, NJ, holding nearly $500 million worth of strategic commodities to meet indus and mil needs for first 3 yrs of any major war; illus; map; facility is one of 117 Fed depots; some stockpiled items listed (L)
Sec Kreps proposal that Commerce Dept keep 'social audit' of cos, measuring how they fulfill their public responsibilities, has been relegated to back burner; proposal aroused protest from business; Kreps, along with Sec Marshall, is no longer in inner sanctum of econ policy-making; both were considered expendable in connection with regular meetings of interagency Econ Policy Group, headed by Sec Blumenthal, which sets main options for Pres Carter; Kreps illus (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1978, covering May 25, 1978.
Soundtrack
Wings
Chuck Mangione
Eric Clapton
Jefferson Starship
1978Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist[â ]
Adam Wade Gontier is a Canadian rock musician. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for Saint Asonia, but is best known as the co-lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock band Three Days Grace. He co-founded the band in 1992, recording four albums with them before parting ways in 2013 and eventually returning in 2024. In addition to his work with Three Days Grace and Saint Asonia, he has been involved in collaborations with other bands including Art of Dying, Apocalyptica, Breaking Benjamin, Skillet and Thousand Foot Krutch.
1978Brian Urlacher, American football player[â ]
Brian Urlacher is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. He played college football for the New Mexico Lobos, earning consensus All-American honors as a senior, and was selected ninth overall by the Bears in the 2000 NFL draft.
1978The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.[â ]
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign to further his political agenda.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]