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Article on city's efforts to rejuvenate itself and brighten its image; city's geog, history, population, taxes, public services, major employers and schools described; illustrations of City Mgr C Samuel Kissinger, New Rochelle Development Council official Lewis Fechter; map (L)
Energy Dept unveils proposed contingency plans for allocating crude oil in event of disruption of supply; is also working on plans for gasoline rationing, accumulation of strategic petroleum reserve and enforcement of mandatory conservation; Jack A Blum (Ind Gasoline Marketers Council) scores plan (M)
Producer prices rose eight‐tenths of 1 percent in December, bringing the increase to 9.1 percent for 1978, the biggest gain in prices at the wholesale level since 1974, the Commerce Department reported. The sustained increases at the producer level suggested that no decline in the inflation rate was in prospect for the immediate future. [Page D1.]
Sihanouk, overcoming USSR opposition, officially appeals to UN Security Council for help against Vietnamese invasion; USSR and Czech delegation heads unsuccessfully try to halt council emergency meeting; Sihanouk calls for council to adopt resolution demanding Vietnamese troops' withdrawal and cessation of interference in Cambodia but does not ask for formal condemnation of Hanoi; asks that council withhold recognition of new Cambodian regime and that member nations deny Vietnam any form of aid; Chinese repr Chen Chu supports Sihanouk; earlier in day, Vietnamese repr Ha Van Lau relayed note from new regime stating that it was sending Foreign Min Hun Sen to meeting and that Sihanouk should not be allowed to speak; Cuban repr Raul Roa attacks Sihanouk personally during council address; illus of Sihanouk and delegation members (L)
Low interest rates, including 3.5% discount rate and 4.75% prime rate, seen fueling stock mkt boom (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 1979, covering January 12, 1979.
Barbra Streisand
Steve Martin
Billy Joel
Chic
Blues Brothers
1979Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model[†]
Lee Bo-young is a South Korean actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for starring in the television dramas Seoyoung, My Daughter (2012–2013), I Can Hear Your Voice (2013), Whisper (2017), Mother (2018), Mine (2021), and Agency (2023). Lee was Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year in 2013.
1979Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player[†]
Marián Hossa is a Slovak former professional ice hockey right winger. Hossa was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the first round, 12th overall, of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. After spending his first seven NHL seasons with the Senators, he played for the Atlanta Thrashers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings, and Chicago Blackhawks. Over the course of his career, he made five NHL All-Star Game appearances and played in three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals with three different teams, finally winning the Stanley Cup in 2009–10 with Chicago. He won two additional Stanley Cup championships with Chicago during the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seasons. Hossa's playing career ended prematurely in 2017, when he announced he was suffering from a progressive skin disorder. His contract was traded to the Arizona Coyotes in 2018 and he formally retired in 2022. Hossa accumulated 525 goals and 609 assists for 1,134 points in 1,309 regular-season games over his 19-year NHL career. He was the 44th player in NHL history to score 500 goals, and the 80th player to score 1,000 points. He was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2020.
1979Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer[†]
Grzegorz Rasiak is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1979David Zabriskie, American cyclist[†]
David Zabriskie is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship seven times. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his web site.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]