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Pres Carter dismisses Bella Abzug as co-chmn of Natl Advisory Com for Women after angry exch at White House meeting; co-chmn Carmen Delgado Votaw says she is resigning 'in solidarity'
CAB grants Amer, Pan Amer, World Airways and Capitol Internatl Airways authority to offer $99.99 one-way fare between NY and Calif; Pan Amer says its minimum fare will be $126, with some restrictions (L)
USSR UN Amb Oleg A Troyanovsky and Chinese Amb Chen Chu exchange words during UN Security Council debate over Vietnamese invasion in harsh diplomatic clash; comments by US Amb Andrew Young noted; illus (M)
Vance authorizes Asst Sec Hodding Carter 3d to issue statement opposing mil coup; Defense Dept discloses that US intelligence agencies are dismantling electronic listening devices close to Iran's border with USSR (M)
Survey of Westchester County execs indicates that county has become less desirable as business location, largely owing to high cost of doing business, especially price of energy; 19% of execs favor eliminating Con Ed or changing over to other sources, while 31% call for more govt control over Con other findings (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 1979, covering January 13, 1979.
Barbra Streisand
Steve Martin
Billy Joel
Chic
Blues Brothers
1979Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter[â ]
Katherine Frances Brand, known as Katy Brand, is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and for Comedy Lab Slap on Channel 4.
1979Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1945)[â ]
Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as a "soul legend". His most popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", and "Little Ghetto Boy". Hathaway is also renowned for his renditions of "A Song for You", "For All We Know", "Jealous Guy" and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", along with "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a documentary called Mister Soul â A Story About Donny Hathaway, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 28, 2020.
1979Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (born 1907)[â ]
Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE was an Australian dramatic soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in GötterdÀmmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She was afflicted by polio from 1941. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]