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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.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1979, covering March 4, 1979.
Bee Gees
Rod Stewart
Village People
Dire Straits
Blues Brothers
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.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]