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In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]
1978Aramis RamĂrez, Dominican baseball player[â ]
Aramis Nin RamĂrez is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman, who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Milwaukee Brewers. He was named an All-Star three times during his career.
1978The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.[â ]
The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBTQ pride and LGBTQ social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBTQ pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBTQ rights events worldwide.
Playwright Arthur Kopit Tells How ‘Wings’ Took Flight
CHICAGO, June 24 — More than 2,000 chanting protesters waving anti‐Nazi banners and signs drowned out a small Nazi demonstration early this evening at the Kluczynskl Federal Building plaza in Chicago's downtown Loop area.
comment on doormen's uniforms; major uniform mfrs insist bldgs are not cutting back on uniforms but spotcheck reveals doormen wearing frayed jackets or hand-me-downs from laid-off colleagues; drawing; illus (L)
WHAT we need out here in the country is a revival of the wayfarer. We need minstrels, peddlers, beggars, pardoners, vagabonds and knights. Scribes, tinkers, troubadours, charlatans, glee‐men and jongleurs. As J.J. Jusserand says in his classic “English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages,” such men are the “microbes” of society, carrying the germ of ,human contact from one isolated soul to another.
UFT and Educ Bd agree on 2-yr contract after days of round-the-clock negotiations; provisions noted; pres Shanker hails Chancellor Macchiarola's role in contract talks; teachers union is 1st in citywide coalition of munic unions to complete all contract negotiations (M)
WASHINGTON — From the outset, one trademark of the Carter Administration's foreign policy has been a certain laissez‐faire laxity about public pronouncements. First there were the unguided sallies of Ambassador Andrew Young. Now there is the more serious matter of President Carter and his chief advisers speaking with different voices on American policy toward the Sovie,t Union — an issue which is exacerbated by infighting, sniping and news-leaking at the second echelons of Government.
WHAT we need out here in the country is a revival of the wayfarer. We need minstrels, peddlers, beggars, pardoners, vagabonds and knights. Scribes, tinkers, troubadours, charlatans. eleemen and ioneleurs. As
Ronald Jager article on aid he has given lost or needy travelers stopping at his home in remote area; drawing (L)
Article on population bulge that resulted from post-World War II baby boom and affect it is expected to have on job mkt; notes that in '75 there were 39 million workers in âprimeâ 25-to-44 age bracket and total is expected to reach 60.5 million in '90; Carnegie-Mellon Univ Prof Arnold Weber predicts competition will be intense and disappointment widespread and deepened by fact that, on avg, workers will be better educated; sees possibility that frustrated employees will be organized by labor unions more easily; Harvard Univ Prof Richard B Freeman, Natl Comm for Manpower Policy chmn Eli Ginsberg, Work in Amer Inst pres Jerome M Rosow and UAW vp Irving Bluestone comment; chart shows changing work force, '70â90 (M)
Authorities hope that recent decline in urban crime rate will facilitate renewal of central cities, which have lost many middle-class residents fearful of bodily harm and loss of property (M)
12 whites are killed by black nationalists, Emmanuel School, Vumba; 21 missionaries have been killed by terrorists before Vumba slayings, 5 of them in May '78; illus; map (L)
DETROIT, June 24—In the ninth inning of a Yankee game the other night, a cherry bomb flew out of the rightfield stands and exploded on the field not far from Reggie Jackson. Jackson