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Experimental prepaid med health plan will be tested by 4,500 members of Dist Council 37 of State, County and Munic Employees who reside in Manhattan at Bellevue Hosp with help of faculty of NYU Med School (S)
4 paintings valued at more than $1 million are stolen from M H DeYoung Memorial Museum in San Francisco; paintings are Rembrandt's Portrait of a Rabbi, Aert Van DerNeer's River Scene at Night, Willem Van DeVelde's Harbor Scene and Anthonie Delorme's Interior of St Lawrence Church in Rotterdam; museum dir Ian White and spokesman Charles Long comment (M)
article on how ICC's deregulation of trucking indus will affect Yellow Freight System of Lancaster, Pa, nation's 3d-largest common carrier; illus (M)
The Christmas shoppping season reached a frenetic crescendo over the weekend with heavy crowds thronging the stores. Many retailers reported that last Saturday was their biggest day of the year and was followed by strong sales on Sunday. The three final days the shopping season helped some retailers achieve gains of 10 to 15 percent over the year before. [Page A1.]
Has cut debt to less than $20 million from $150 million and once again has become aggressive force in real-estate development; chmn Gerald W Blakeley Jr, pres and chief exec Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfield and Leggatt McCall & Werner pres Thomas E Leggatt comment; Blakeley and Colloredo-Mansfeld pors; illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 20, 1978, covering December 26, 1978.
Billy Joel
Steve Martin
Barbra Streisand
Chic
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1978Karel Rüütli, Estonian lawyer and politician[†]
Karel Rüütli was Chairman of the Estonian People's Union and also leader of Estonian People's Union faction in the Estonian Parliament. He left the ERL and joined the Social Democratic Party of Estonia on 14 June 2010.
1978Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player[†]
Kaoru Sugayama is a Japanese volleyball player. Although her nickname is "yuu", Ai Otomo already had that nickname on the All-Japan women's Team, so she was given the new nickname "kaoru". Her nickname in television broadcasts is "koushuni kagayaku Kaoru-hime",. Also, she is sometimes known as "shiroi yousei" due in part to her fair skin. However, she is embarrassed to be called "Princess Kaoru" or "White fairy". She belongs to the volleyball team JT Marvelous of the V.League. In May 2008, she retired from the team and from organized volleyball.
1978The inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally begins.[†]
The Dakar Rally or simply "The Dakar", formerly known as the Paris–Dakar Rally, is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). It is an off-road endurance event traversing terrain much tougher than conventional rallying, and the vehicles used are typically true off-road vehicles and motorcycles, rather than modified on-road vehicles. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks, and erg. Stages vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day. The rough terrain, driver fatigue, and lack of skill usually results in accidents and serious injuries.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]