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Roderick M Hills insists that main reason for his resignation as chmn and chief exec was difficulty of commuting between St Louis and Washington; repts of friction in Peabody exec offices noted; Hills illus; map of Peabody holdings (M)
Carter Adm approves estimated $500 million deal under which Israel would sell 50 to 60 advanced fighter planes to Taiwan (M)
Article on test of air-conditioner repair shops conducted by NYC Consumer Affairs Dept in conjunction with NY Times; test found 7 out of 11 shops misdiagnosed problem or charged substantial amounts for unnecessary repair; other findings; details; Consumer Comr Bruce C Ratner will recommend that indus be licensed (L)
TRADITIONAL Jews interpret the Bible as forbidding meat and dairy dishes at the same meal, but, instead of resting content with the wisdom of the sages, Ralph Goodman and Heinz Rohr wanted to do something about it. They own The Cake Stylists Inc. of Queens, and they dreamed of producing a cheesecake that was parve — neither meat nor dairy — and thus acceptable at any meal.
Gifted 8-yr old Afghan boy Sayed Jalal, who has completed hs curriculum under tutelage of 12 instructors from univ in Kabul, and apparently is able to perform prodigious feats of learning, has been brought to NYC while his father seeks help to further his educ; Amer educators are impressed by range and depth of boy's knowledge, particularly in math and physical sciences; math Profs George Booth (Bklyn Coll) and Robert A Marino (Hunter Coll) and Mensa official Dennis Moore comment; Sayed Jalal illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1978, covering July 5, 1978.
Gerry Rafferty
Soundtrack
Commodores
The Rolling Stones
Bob Seger
1978Britta Oppelt, German rower[†]
Britta Oppelt is a German Olympic-medal winning sculler.
1978Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (died 2013)[†]
Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1978İsmail YK, German-Turkish singer-songwriter[†]
İsmail YK, born as İsmail Yurtseven, is a German Turk pop singer. YK stands for Yurtseven Kardeşler, the siblings group he was a member of at the start of his career. A number of his albums have been top sellers in Turkey. His first solo album Şappur Şuppur sold 1.2 million copies. In 2006 his second album Bombabomba.com was the best selling Turkish album with over 600,000 copies. In 2008, his third album Bas Gaza sold 450,000 copies. İsmail YK has won many awards including Best Turkish singer that he won 3 times consecutively in 2006, 2007 and 2008. İsmail YK, who accelerated his works after a long break, released his album Kıyamet on Valentine's Day 2015. The album consisted of 12 songs, including the song "Yaralıyım" from the album Haydi Bastır which was rerecorded with Hatice. The song "Çıkmam Seneye" which he had written at the age of 12 was included in the album as well. İsmail YK rerecorded the rock version of the song "Allah Belanı Versin" (2006) and released a music video for it. In its 2006 music video he used an Alfa Romeo 164 while for the new music video he used a Ferrari F430 car. The songs and its music video were among the most discussed subjects on music news in Turkey within the first 3 days of its release. As to why he damaged the car in the music video he said that "he wanted to send this message that instead of hurting someone it's better to cause damage to materialistic things". He is speaker the television programme in partner of Aysun Kayacı in Şen-Şakrak-Show and YK Show in broadcasting Kanaltürk television channel in 2011.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]