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$15 billion budget cutback, advocated by high-level Carter Adm officials, reptdly may include cute in Social Security disability ins program (M)
Article on revitalization of Debrett's Debrett's; Harold Brooks-Baker, Amer exec who turned co around, comments; illus (M)
Article on '79 mil budget notes Pres Carter's veto of '79 authorization bill because it included unwanted money for new aircraft carrier (S)
Fed grand Jury probes charges that NYC Comptroller Harrison J Goldin and Franchises Bur Dir Morris Tarshis tried to revoke franchise of LI Airports Limousine Service in '76 as favor to Teamsters Local 1034, which was striking co; Goldin spokesman says audit was begun because of complaints by striking drivers that co was cheating city; co pres Walter Stuart and other officials comment (M)
HR Ways and Means Com chmn Al Ullman suggests Cong enact in '79 or '80 significant Soc Security bill that would scale back rise in payroll tax scheduled to take effect in Jan '81; says he is against gen revenue financing for Soc Security trust funds; holds income taxes should not be used to finance system; plans to hold public hearings on developing new source of financing; lists as critical evasion of income and Soc Security taxes by people who work as independent contractors instead of as employees (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 1978, covering November 15, 1978.
Billy Joel
Donna Summer
Foreigner
Linda Ronstadt
Soundtrack
1978Floyd Womack, American football player[†]
Floyd "Pork Chop" Seneca Womack is an American former professional football guard. He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft. He played college football at Mississippi State.
1978Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)[†]
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s.
1978A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.[†]
The Douglas DC-8 is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company. Work began in 1952 towards the United States Air Force's (USAF) requirement for a jet-powered aerial refueling tanker. After losing the USAF's tanker competition to the rival Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in May 1954, Douglas announced in June 1955 its derived jetliner project marketed to civil operators. In October 1955, Pan Am made the first order along with the competing Boeing 707, and many other airlines soon followed. The first DC-8 was rolled out in Long Beach Airport on April 9, 1958, and flew for the first time on May 30. Following Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification in August 1959, the DC-8 entered service with Delta Air Lines on September 18.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]