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CIA and Harvard Univ are at impasse over univ's attempt to ban secret operations and recruiting by faculty members, as outlined in guidelines issued by univ in '77 after disclosures about agency's campus activities; disagreement is seen as having implications for all colls and univs (M)
Farber jailed and NY Times begins paying $5,000-a-day fine after US Sup Ct Assoc Justice Thurgood Marshall refuses to stay penalties any longer; Marshall suggests that he sides with Farber and Times on some issues; Farber surrenders to Bergen County sheriff; Times exec editor A M Rosenthal and exec vp James C Goodale accompany Farber; illus (L)
First families leave homes on contaminated Love Canal site; Sens Javits and Moynihan submit Sen resolution appropriating $4 million for 37 affected families; Repr John J LaFalce expects that Carter Adm will support aid and that it will be matched by state and local funds; health officials say 200 more homes may be affected; confused and angry residents meet with local officials to see if they will be affected; illus (M)
Bulova Watch Co, nation's oldest watch producer, is discontinuing manufacture of watch movements in US after 55 yrs and is shifting those operations from Queens to its plant in Switzerland (M)
Sec Vance says Middle East peace initiative is at critical point, HR Internatl Relations Com; says trip to Israel and Egypt is to urge new measures to overcome impasse (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 1978, covering August 5, 1978.
Soundtrack
The Rolling Stones
Commodores
Foreigner
Bruce Springsteen
1978Cosmin Bărcăuan, Romanian footballer and manager[†]
Cosmin Bărcăuan is a Romanian former football player and current coach.
1978Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter[†]
Kim Gevaert is a former sprinter and Olympic champion from Belgium.
1978Harel Levy, Israeli tennis player[†]
Harel Levy is a retired Israeli professional tennis player, and the current captain of Israel's Davis Cup team. He reached the final of the 2000 Toronto Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 30, with his best doubles ranking being World No. 71 in May 2008. Levy was a key factor in Israel's semifinal run in the 2009 Davis Cup.
1978Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (born 1893)[†]
Jesse Joseph Haines, nicknamed "Pop", was an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). After a lengthy stint in minor league baseball, he played briefly in 1918, then from 1920 to 1937. He spent nearly his entire major league career with the Cardinals. Haines pitched on three World Series championship teams. Though he had a kind personality off the field, Haines was known as a fiery competitor during games.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]