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article explores possible impact of decision on steel indus, which is in midst of one of severest retrenchments in its history; graph shows sales and earnings of top 10 producers (M)
Comment on numerous stores offering close-out sales in NYC midtown area; many have been issued summonses for misleading sale ad; consumer tips on how to avoid being cheated in 'going out of business' stores (M)
Carter Adm agrees to pare tax-cut bill to $15 billion and drop reform measures to muster Dem support in HR Ways and Means Com, meeting with Cong Dem leaders attended by Sec Michael Blumenthal and White House domestic policy chief Stuart E Eizenstat (M)
Labor Dept's Occupational Safety and Health Adm and union experts say USN has 1 of worst records among Fed agencies in terms of worker safety and health; recent GAO study found that many workers in Navy shipyds had contracted lung cancer from asbestos and that many shipyd workers have suffered hearing impairment, allegedly because of failures by Navy to take adequate noise-abatement measures; OSHA reptdly has been in conflict with Adm Hyman G Rickover over right of OSHA to inspect and impose its standards at Navy facilities engaged in construction of warships; agency inspectors reptdly have been turned away when attempting to investigate complaints at Elec Boat Div where nuclear submarines are built, as well at other installations under Rickover's command; Rickover, in memo on issue before meeting with Labor Sec Ray Marshall, said that civilian safety and health specifications would not apply to construction of warships (M)
over half of nation's grain and cotton farmers are idling over 20% of their land this summer to help improve farm econ (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 1978, covering June 22, 1978.
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Chuck Mangione
Gerry Rafferty
Wings
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1978Champ Bailey, American football player[†]
Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft.
1978Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011)[†]
Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).
1978Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.[†]
Charon, formal designation (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km (377 mi). Charon is the sixth-largest known trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. It was discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., using photographic plates taken at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS).
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]