VANCE CALLS POLICY ON AFRICAN ‘POSITIVE’
Annual meeting, Atlantic City, NJ; Sec Cyrus Vance speaks (M)
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Annual meeting, Atlantic City, NJ; Sec Cyrus Vance speaks (M)
Vietnam charges China's closing of 3 Vietnamese consulates in south is part of policy that includes support for Cambodia in border dispute (M)
More and more men are spending their Saturday mornings prowling through cluttered antique‐clothing shops looking for old clothes made, worn and discarded before they were born. As the interest in antique clothes grows, these new converts, old‐clothes conscious for the first time, are braving what has traditionally been a woman's world.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 1978, covering June 21, 1978.
Soundtrack
Chuck Mangione
Gerry Rafferty
Wings
Soundtrack
1978Thomas Blondeau, Flemish writer (died 2013)[†]
Thomas Blondeau was a Flemish writer, poet and journalist. He studied literature at the University of Leuven and the University of Leiden. He wrote for newspapers including Mare, Deng, De Revisor, De Standaard and Dif.
1978Matt Kuchar, American golfer[†]
Matthew Gregory Kuchar is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour. Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour. He rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results. Kuchar was the PGA Tour's leading money winner in 2010.
1978Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer[†]
Cristiano Lupatelli is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is the goalkeeping coach of club Juventus U23. As a player, he was a goalkeeper; he is known for his trademark goatee and sideburns with his bald head.
1978Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer[†]
Dejan Ognjanović is a Montenegrin former professional footballer who played as a defender. On the international level, he represented FR Yugoslavia most notably at the 2001 Kirin Cup as well as Montenegro from 2008 to 2010.
1978Rim'K, French rapper[†]
Abdelkrim Brahmi, known professionally as Rim'K, is a French rapper. Rim'K was raised in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. His family is originally from Barbacha, Algeria, which is mentioned many times in his lyrics.
1978The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.[†]
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; Chess ; Aida ; and, for Disney, Aladdin, The Lion King, both the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and the live-action film adaption. He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical King David, and for DreamWorks Animation's The Road to El Dorado.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]