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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]
1979Trenton Hassell, American basketball player[â ]
Trenton Lavar Hassell is an American former professional basketball forward. A 6Â ft 5Â in (1.96Â m), 227Â lb (103Â kg) guard-forward, Hassell was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 30th overall pick of the 2001 NBA draft.
1979Sarah Stock, Canadian wrestler and trainer[â ]
Sarah Stock is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is known for her role in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and WWE as a trainer and producer for WWE. Previously began her career in Canada and moved back and forth across the country, working for various promotions, facing both male and female wrestlers. She then moved to Mexico, where she worked under the ring name Dark Angel for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) and later for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). She is also known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where under the ring name Sarita she became the inaugural and two-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, holding the title the first time with Taylor Wilde and the second time with Rosita. She has also worked in Japan for JDStar and World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she held the Wonder of Stardom Championship.
1979Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (born 1926)[â ]
William Francis Unsoeld was an American mountaineer who was a member of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest. The American Mount Everest Expedition was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, and included Unsoeld, Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Barry Bishop and Tom Hornbein. Whittaker, with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, reached the summit on May 1, 1963. Unsoeld, Hornbein, Bishop and Jerstad reached the top on May 22, 1963. Unsoeld and Hornbein's climb was the first ascent from the peak's west ridge, and the first major traverse of a Himalayan peak. His subsequent activities included working as a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper, Peace Corps director in Nepal, speaker for Outward Bound, faculty member at Oregon State University and The Evergreen State College and mountaineering guide. He died on Mount Rainier in an avalanche.
Article on Western Elec, which mfrs telephone equipment for Bell System, 1 of series on AT&T and its impact on Amer life and business; co says avg price of equipment rose only 38% between 1950 and 1978 and that avg price of co's equipment stands 18% below that of other phone equipment mfrs; co pres is Donald Procknow; illus (L)
Muriel Fischer article on Singles Weekend at Concord Hotel, Catskill Mts; illus (M)
Chinese mil action and possibility of troops withdrawal revd; USSR's reaction to Chinese actions recalled (M)
Analysis of controversy over proposed move of US Postal Service adm offices from NYC to New Rochelle (M)
It is better to come from behind and tie than to lose a lead and be tied. With that hockey axiom in mind, the Rangers might have been a bit happy about their 2‐2 deadlock yesterday with the Buffalo Sabres at Madison Square Garden.
Pres Carter and Canadian Prime Min Trudeau endorse action taken by members of Internatl Energy Agency to reduce demand for oil on world market (S)
Pres Carter authorizes formation of campaign com but withholds making formal announcement about his candidacy for reâelection; action comes following Gov Brown's highly publicized tour of East (M)
NOW that everyone has got the message — that the public demands tax cuts — the people in charge of spending the money are having to search for areas where reductions can be made with the least amount of pain.
wk's activities in Iran revd (M)
photographs of Jupiter's surface and of Io, 1 of planet's inner moons, as transmitted by Voyager spacecraft
The Hidden Valley, exhibit of handicrafts of New Guinea at Gallery Nine in Chatham, NJ, and The Two Worlds of Peru, another handicrafts exhibit at Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences in Morristown, revd by R Williams; map; illus (M)
Both Rudolf Nureyev and Judith Jamison will dance the role of the Spectre to the familiar Weber score this week. Mr. Nureyev will perform Michael Fokine's original choreography in the “Homage to Diaghilev’ at the Mark Hellinger Theater; Miss Jamison will dance Maurice Bejart's recent version with the Ballet of the 20th Century at the Minskoff Theater.