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Standard Oil (Ohio) chairman Alton W Whitehouse Jr says crude oil surplus on West Coast is smaller than expected; says rise in world oil prices has made company's Alaskan crude oil more profitable; says company will spend more money exploring for oil in Alaska; says company's crude oil supplies are in good shape through September (M)
Pres Carter proposes letting Federally-chartered savings institutions invest up to 10% of assets in consumer loans, message to Congress
'Econ miracle' of W Ger assessed on 30th anniv of Fed Repub; graphs; prosperity and stability remain but maturing econ faces pressures such as declining population growth, aging industries and lagging development; Govt efforts to adapt to slowdown in export growth and competition from developing nations revd (M)
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein invokes mutual aid pact and puts policemen from San Francisco and neighboring suburban communities on alert in case of more violence by residents protesting voluntary manslaughter verdict against White; more than 140 people, including 60 policemen, were injured, police cars burned, City Hall windows broken and fires set last night during protests; about 24 demonstrators have been arrested; celebration to commemorate Milk's birthday is held in homosexual community; mood is described as tense, but no violence is reptd; illus of Mayor Feinstein; illus of police car being set on fire (M)
MAYBE it happens to everyone, but never before had it happened to me. A week earlier I had mailed out 18 dinner invitations. Now, on the day of the fateful night, yet another person had telephoned, to cancel his previous acceptance. He had sprained his thigh playing softball.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 23, 1979, covering May 23, 1979.
Supertramp
Peaches & Herb
Bad Company
The Doobie Brothers
Donna Summer
1979Rasual Butler, American basketball player (died 2018)[†]
Rasual Butler was an American professional basketball player. In his 14-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career, he played for the Miami Heat, New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards and San Antonio Spurs. Butler was born in Philadelphia, and raised in the Point Breeze area of South Philadelphia. After playing college basketball with the La Salle Explorers, he was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Heat. On January 31, 2018, Butler was behind the wheel when he and his girlfriend, Leah LaBelle, died in a single vehicle car crash in Los Angeles.
1979Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Brian Wesley Campbell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2010, assisting on the deciding goal.
1979S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (born 1932)[†]
Somasundaram Selvanayagam was a Ceylon Tamil geographer, academic and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Jaffna.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]