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Alex Ward article on diversity of themes that charities use to attract public and members to fund-raisers; some recent fund-raising activities in NYC described; use of celebrities or just their names by orgns in effort to create stimulus for cause noted; illus of Edgar Allan Poe and Theda Bara, whose names have been used at fund-raisers (L)
Carter Adm is calling on members of Dem establishment for advice on how to broaden its pol base, reverse declining trend in polls and improve relations with Cong; Anne Wexler, recently named Pres pol asst, presides at regular unpublicized strategy sessions at which Dems who served in previous adms offer advice; list of those invited (M)
article on rivalry with Red Sox notes many fans travel by air shuttle to attend games; illus (M)
NY Times survey on decline in number of entering graduate students cites Med Colls Assn rept of 10% drop in mod school applications (S)
Alberta Gas Trunk Line says it purchased 23% of Husky Oil, and Wall Street sources say subsequent purchases may have raised stake as high as 33%; Petro-Canada is expected to withdraw its bid for Husky, having accomplished its purpose of spurring development of co's heavy-oil deposits; Wall Street sources are divided on possibility that Trunk Line might somehow join with Occidental or others to help develop deposits; table of Trunk Lines financial data (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 28, 1978, covering June 28, 1978.
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Gerry Rafferty
Chuck Mangione
Commodores
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1978Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player[†]
Simon Larose is a former professional tennis player. He was Canada's top-ranked singles player for some months during 2003 and 2004. Larose retired from the tour shortly after being banned for two years for substance abuse.
1978Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (born 1905)[†]
Clifford Walter Dupont was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government and president. Born in London and qualifying as a solicitor, Dupont served during the Second World War as an officer of the British Royal Artillery in North Africa before first visiting Southern Rhodesia in 1947. He returned a year later, started a ranch and emigrated full-time during the early 1950s, by which time the country had become a territory of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1978The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]