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Frank J Prial article disputes Italian wine importers Villa Banfi advertising claim that French wines contain dangerous amounts of sulfur dioxide; Boordy Vineyards founder Philip Wagner comments (M)
Joseph Carragher, executive director of NJ Highway Authority, says odd-even system of gasoline sales has shortened lines at service stations along Garden State Parkway (S)
Pres Carter formally sends Congress bill that will implement new round of trade liberalization agreed on by major industrial nations; special trade representative Robert S Strauss predicts passage before August recess, Capitol Hill trade experts see only desultory opposition; expect most of controversy to center on reorganization of trade bureaucracy; major provisions of trade bill reviewed (M)
Stock of Dynalectron has soared recently on strength of reports that Pres Carter will support $10 billion Federal program to produce synthetic fuels; corporation's H-Coal process for converting coal to oil is considered among most advanced, since it can produce light crude suitable for refining into gasoline and home-heating oil, not just boiler fuel produced by other processes; Charles G Gulledge, president, and stock analysts comment; his illus; graph of stock price (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 1979, covering June 20, 1979.
Supertramp
Donna Summer
Sister Sledge
Rickie Lee Jones
Cheap Trick
1979Charles Howell III, American golfer[†]
Charles Gordon Howell III is an American professional golfer who currently plays on LIV Golf and formerly on the PGA Tour. He has been featured in the top 15 of the Official World Golf Ranking and ranked 9th on the PGA Tour money list in 2002. Known as one of the most consistent players on tour, he has garnered over 90 top-ten finishes in his career, earning about $42 million and has three PGA Tour victories, his most recent in 2018.
1979ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.[†]
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, Nightline, 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The network also includes daytime talk shows The View, Live with Kelly and Mark, and Tamron Hall. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]