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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]
1979Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter[â ]
Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Flash Gordon on the eponymous 2007â2008 television series, Whitney Fordman on the superhero series Smallville, Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama Rookie Blue, and Jack Hyde in the Fifty Shades film series. In 2022, he played a misogynist corrupt sheriff in the HBO Max horror series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin.
1979Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer[â ]
Miguel Ăngel Llera GarzĂłn is a Spanish football manager and former professional player who played as a centre back. He was most recently first-team coach at Bristol Rovers.
1979Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author[â ]
Birgit Zotz is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies.
Dr. Elliott M. Gross, Connecticut's Chief Medical Examiner, has been offered the job of New York City's Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Koch, and he accepted late last week, according to city officials.
106 of 225 persons arrested for trespassing during Aug 5 protest at Indian Point, NY, nuclear power plant remain in jail, having refused to give their names (S)
Pres Carter, swearing in G William Miller as Treasury Secretary and Paul A Volcker as Federal Reserve chairman, vows to continue his economic policies as all 3 men give gloomy assessments of scope of problems facing US; policies include opposition to both tax cut and mandatory wage and price controls and stress fiscal and budgetary restraint; Carter designates Miller as Administration's chief economic spokesman; all 3 stress danger of inflation; Carter, in apparent attempt to link inflation to previous Administrations, says US has now experienced more than decade of persistent inflation; Carter, Miller, Volcker illus (L)
Article on efforts of marine archeologists to study remains of USS Monitor--long-lost Civil War ironclad recently found off Cape Hatteras, NC; vessel changed course of naval warfare on March 9, 1862 when it engaged Merrimac, Confederate ironclad, signaling end of age of wooden men-of-war and beginning of era of armored battleships; Monitor was sunk by icy waves later in year while attempting to round Diamond Shoals; drawings; illus (M)
Muzorewa welcomes 'positive elements' in new peace plan from Commonwealth; demands 'substantial clarification' of some points, but indicates outright opposition to only 1 provision-call for new round of British-supervised elections; there has been no official comment on plan from former Prime Min Smith's 28-seat white bloc in parliament; recent statement by Smith indicates that he might strongly resist call by Thatcher for lessening of power held by whites in Muzorewa's coalition Government; statements by Rev Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau noted (M)
Newsstand business in NYC is in slump, and crime is 1 reason cited; other causes are deoline in major NYC newspapers of general circulation from 7 in 1960's to 3 today; restrictions on what newsstands can sell to make up for loss of revenue; about 400 above-ground newsstands are operating in NYC, according to Department of Consumer Affairs; of total, about 250 are in Manhattan; NYC Consumer Affairs Comr Bruce C Rattner comments; illus (M)
Study by Christopher Jencks indicates that college graduates end up in substantially higherâstatus, betterâpaying occupations than high school graduates; finds graduates of 'selective' colleges earn 28% more than men who graduated from 'nonselective schools'; critics question scope of study because it excluded women and because most of its data were collected prior to '74 (M)
Soviet Union is negotiating with Volkswagen for license to produce Dasher model; Czechoslovakia wants to produce and install Volkswagen Rabbit engines in its Skoda cars (S)
Sindona's attorney Marvin E Frankel says Sindona is missing and may have been kidnapped; Fed prosecutor John J Kenney declines to comment on whether Sindona was kidnapped or might have fled to avoid trial in NYC on charges of illegally transferring funds from abroad to acquire control of Franklin National Bank and alleged misapplication of $45 million in bank's funds; Sindona por (M)
Article on classic energy vs environment controversy between officials who want to build oil refinery on banks of Chesapeake Bay and conservationists who demand protection for environment; map; (M)
Dr Gordon G Gallup Jr of State University of NY, Albany, finds that pre-adolescent chimpanzees, when presented with mirror, begin to recognize themselves in 3 or 4 days; experiment shows evidence of self-awareness--recognizing one's own reflection--which was previously thought to be characteristic belonging exclusively to man, and is learned ability; drawing (M)
Research on chemical contraceptives for men reviewed; Drs C Alvin Paulsen (Washington Univ) and Emil Steinberger (Texas Univ) report success with injections of synthetic or natural hormones which cut sperm production without unacceptable side effects (M)