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Educ Bd plans to close some 60 pss to meet budget cuts and to accommodate declining student population; cuts will take into consideration ethnic makeup of students and that of dists, so as not to violate integration; Deputy Chancellor Richard Halverson and Budget Dir James R Brigham comment (M)
Susan Jacoby article on poor command of English noted among middle-class coll students (L)
Rev of items to be taken up at special Legis session, called by Gov Carey for Dec 7 (S)
article on efforts to establish standards for furniture flammability; new standard proposed by Consumer Product Safety Comm listed; Upholstered Furniture Action Council, assn comprising 6 major mfg assns and retailers, notes 3 problems associated with standards (M)
US Steel Corp discloses that it has actively been negotiating for 3 mos for contract to build billion-dollar iron-ore processing complex for China; corp pres David M Roderick comments; his por (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1978, covering December 7, 1978.
Billy Joel
Steve Martin
Barbra Streisand
Donna Summer
Foreigner
1978Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer[†]
Shiri Appleby is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her leading roles as Liz Parker in the WB/UPN science fiction drama series Roswell (1999–2002) and Rachel Goldberg in the Lifetime/Hulu drama series Unreal (2015–2018).
1978Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian, academic and television presenter[†]
Suzannah Rebecca Gabriella Lipscomb is a British historian and professor emerita at the University of Roehampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Higher Education Academy and the Society of Antiquaries, and has for many years contributed a regular column to History Today. She has written and edited a number of books, presented numerous historical documentaries on TV and is host of the Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit. She is also a royal historian for NBC.
1978Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (born 1886)[†]
Frank Alexander Wetmore was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]