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NYS Commerce Dept finds that county has become increasingly attractive place for foreign businesses; repts that in last 18 months, 7 major corps have chosen sites for key facilities such as corp headquarters, sales offices, manufacturing plants and distribution centers; list of some concerns that have settled in county; illus of some corp logos (L)
Vietnamese children having dinner aboard U.S.S. Wabash after being picked up from a small boat in the Gulf of Siam
Comment on revitalization program for Hempstead; 1st step of program involves prime central business-area block bounded by Fulton, Main, Front and Franklin Sts; funds will be available to cover relocation costs for merchants forced to move to another part of village; planning concern Raymond, Parish, Pine & Weiner senior vice president Michael Weiner comments; illus (L)
Article on various executives who still maintain active role in their corporations despite fact that they have past age of 65; focuses on Justin Whitlock Dart, chairman of Dart Industries, Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp, Joseph Tushinsky, chairman of Superscope Inc, R Stanton Avery, head of Avery International and Edwin H Land, founder of Polaroid; illus (L)
Robert Bendiner article on leisurely barge travel through Dutch waterways; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 1979, covering July 29, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Earth| Wind & Fire
Cheap Trick
Electric Light Orchestra
1979Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer[†]
Karim Essediri is a former professional footballer who played as a right winger. Born in France, he earned eight caps with the Tunisia national team at international level.
1979Ronald Murray, American basketball player[†]
Ronald "Flip" Murray is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Al Mouttahed Tripoli of the Lebanese Basketball League. At 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), 200 lb, Murray played as a point guard–shooting guard. After attending Strawberry Mansion High School in Philadelphia, where he starred on the basketball team, he played college basketball for four seasons, first at the Meridian Community College in Meridian, Mississippi, from 1997 to 1999, and then at Shaw University located in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2000 to 2002. He is nicknamed "Flip" by childhood friends who often said he looked like Bernie Mac's character, "Flip", from the movie Above The Rim.
1979Juris Umbraško, Latvian basketball player[†]
Juris Umbraško is a Latvian professional basketball coach and player. He heads the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League team Rīgas Zeļļi.
1979Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1898)[†]
Herbert Marcuse was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.
1979Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)[†]
William Selden Todman was an American television producer and personality born in New York City. He produced many of television's longest-running shows with business partner Mark Goodson, with whom he created Goodson-Todman Productions.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]