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Article on British agribusiness concern Dalgety & Co, second‐largest processor for frozen foods in US; American arm of Dalgety is distributor for fast‐food and specialty restaurants and supermarkets; some noted; company chairman‐president Peter Gardiner comments; Gardiner illus; chart shows regional share of company's worldwide sales (M)
“WHEN you spend all day taking care of other people's design problems, you don't have the time or you just don't feel like working on your own place,” said Peter Maase, who has been an assistant to Joseph Paul D'Urso, the minimalist designer, for about a year.
Canada's Progressive‐Conservative Government says 'significant proportion' of assets of Petrocan, the national oil company, will be returned to private sector; Energy Min Ray Hnatyshyn says Government plans to keep in public sector certain activities carried on by Petrocan: government‐to‐government contracts for oil imports, exploration in frontier areas and promotion of research and development of tar sands and heavy oil; New Democratic Party, a socialist group, threatens no‐confidence motion; Edward Broadbent, its leader, comments (M)
West Side Manhattan branch is robbed of undetermined amount of money (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1979, covering September 6, 1979.
The Knack
Supertramp
The Cars
Earth| Wind & Fire
The Charlie Daniels Band
1979Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer[†]
Michalis John Arnaoutis[ 6 September 1979]is a Greek professional boxer who challenged for the WBO light welterweight title in 2006. At regional level he held the WBO-NABO light welterweight title from 2004 to 2006 and the IBF-USBA light welterweight title from 2008 to 2009.
1979Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer[†]
Massimo Maccarone is an Italian football coach and former player, who played as a striker. He was nicknamed Big Mac during his playing days.
1979Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer[†]
Carlos Adrián Morales Higuera is a Mexican former professional footballer. He last played for Lobos BUAP on loan from Morelia in Liga MX. He recently was the manager of Atlético Morelia
1979Low Ki, American wrestler[†]
Brandon Silvestry is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Low Ki. He is known for his time with TNA Wrestling, Ring of Honor and Major League Wrestling as Low Ki and Senshi and with WWE as Kaval.
1979Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)[†]
Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. He arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music, which included Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]