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$100,000 allocated for Sanitation Dept budget overtime costs is among revisions in fiscal '80 budget made by City Council and Board of Estimate; illus (S)
Rept by NYC Transit Authority's engineering staff says Rockwell International Corp subsidiary Off-Highway and Supply Group, manufacturer of undercarriages (trucks) for city's fleet of R-46 subway cars, misrepresented results of X-ray tests of equipment required under its contract; trucks have been cracking since they were put into service and pose potential safety threat; to date, about 900 cracks have been discovered on about 550 trucks; study says proposed agreement between Pullman and city for repairing cracked castings will not solve problem and advises that it be rejected; Transit Authority exec officer John G deRoos has recommended acceptance; Stein charges that there is evidence of fraud; Council Pres Carol Bellamy criticizes revised repair agreement; drawing of undercarriage (L)
Pres Carter and Sen Edward M Kennedy marshal supporters of their opposing national health plans and pit them against each other in news conferences at White House and on Capitol Hill; debate focuses on prospects of enactment of each plan and their respective costs, fairness and effectiveness; illus of Carter and Sens Russell B Long and Abraham Ribicoff M)
Carter Administration has decided to phase out import quotas on specialty steel over next 8 months; decision is scored by Sens Richard S Schweiker and H John Heinz 3d, Allegheny Ludlum Steel pres Richard P Simmons and USWA pres Lloyd McBride; Robert S Strauss, US special trade representative, cites improved profitability, productivity and efficiency of US industry in announcing decision; EEC welcomes decision, although it sought immediate lifting of quotas; Ernst Wimpfheimer, director of American Institute for Imported Steel, predicts that import flows will not be very large, because producing countries will limit sales in America (M)
Latest fashionable London restaurants described; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 1979, covering June 13, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Sister Sledge
Rickie Lee Jones
Cheap Trick
1979Esther Anderson, Australian actress[†]
Esther Jackie Anderson is an Australian actress and model, best known for her role as Charlie Buckton on the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2008 until 2012. She was nominated for two Gold Logie Awards in 2010 and 2012. After leaving Home and Away, Anderson starred in the NBC television drama Siberia and was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
1979Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player[†]
Nila Ann Håkedal is a Norwegian female beach volleyball player.
1979Miguel Pate, American long jumper[†]
Miguel Pate is an American track and field athlete. His speciality is the long jump, although during his high school and collegiate career he also competed in the triple jump, high jump, 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m relay, and 4 × 400 m.
1979Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Ryan Pickett is an American film director, writer & producer, and television actor.
1979Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)[†]
Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]