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Carl Eardley, spedal counsel for Senate Ethics Committee, reptdly urges committee to recommend that Sen Talmadge be censured for engaging in financial misconduct; majority of committee is said to agree with him (M)
Article on Occidental Petroleum's $1 billion shale-oil project in Colorado between Rifle and Meeker; commercial production is expected to begin in '86, and company hopes to produce up to 200,000 bbls of shale oil a day from tract, which could yield as much as 1.5 billion bbls of oil; company's in-situ processing, which largely overcomes most serious environmental concerns, described; map; illus (M)
Khomeini bans all music from Iranian radio and TV; says music is ‘no different from opium’ and that it corrupts youth (M)
FBI discloses it has not recovered ransom; illus; sketch (M)
Sen, 90-4, approves trade-liberalization pact; approval seen victory for Carter and tribute to Strauss; pact seen having little impact on US economy; pact described; Budget Dir McIntyre and Strauss illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 1979, covering July 24, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Earth| Wind & Fire
Cheap Trick
Electric Light Orchestra
1979Rose Byrne, Australian actress[†]
Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994) , and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She gained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She went on to appear in major international films such as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), followed by Troy (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and Knowing (2009).
1979Jerrod Niemann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jerrod Lee Niemann is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released one single for Category 5 Records (2006); three albums for Sea Gayle Music/Arista Nashville: Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury (2010), Free the Music (2012), and High Noon (2014); and one album, This Ride (2017), for Curb Records. These albums have produced a combined ten Top 40 entries on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including the Platinum Number 1 singles "Lover, Lover" and "Drink to That All Night" and Gold Top 5 single "What Do You Want". He has also co-written three singles for Garth Brooks: the chart topping Chris LeDoux tribute "Good Ride Cowboy", as well as "That Girl Is a Cowboy" and "Midnight Sun". Jamey Johnson, Lee Brice, Blake Shelton, Colbie Caillat, Diamond Rio, The Cadillac Three, Mark Chesnutt, John Anderson, Neal McCoy, Christian Kane, and Julie Roberts have also recorded Niemann's songs.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]