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Newark educ bd plans to drop 65 of its 210 security guards, despite recent public concern about incidents of school violence (S)
Singer accepts Nobel Prize, Stockholm; his speech includes remarks in Yiddish; illus (M)
China tells Japanese execs that it plans to enact ambitious set or commercial laws in '79 to guarantee rights of foreign investors in joint ventures and to protect their patents; China's stated aim is to encourage foreign cos to pour estimated $100 billion into its econ by '85 (M)
Dem Natl Com votes to require that state delegations to '80 natl conv be equally divided between men and women; votes to ban election of conv delegates from single-member dists, which can enable a Pres candidate with popular-vote plurality in state to swing disproportionate majority within state's entire delegation; practice is also seen as means of excluding minorities from delegations (S)
Blumenthal arrives with message from Carter to Ceausescu expressing support for Rumania in its dispute with USSR; US concern that USSR may resort to armed intervention noted (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1978, covering December 9, 1978.
Billy Joel
Steve Martin
Barbra Streisand
Donna Summer
Foreigner
1978Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player[†]
Gastón Norberto Gaudio is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won eight singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 5 in April 2005. Gaudio's most significant championship came at the 2004 French Open, when he defeated fellow Argentine Guillermo Coria from two sets down in the final.
1978Jesse Metcalfe, American actor and musician[†]
Jesse Eden Metcalfe is an American actor. He is known for being John Rowland on Desperate Housewives. Metcalfe has also had notable roles on Passions and played the title role in John Tucker Must Die. He starred as Christopher Ewing in the TNT continuation of Dallas, based on the 1978 series of the same name. From 2016 to 2021, Metcalfe starred as Trace Riley in Hallmark Channel's hit series Chesapeake Shores.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]