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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]
1979Nathan Hindmarsh, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster[â ]
Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Parramatta Eels in the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative second-row forward, he played his entire career at the Eels, in 2010 breaking the record for most games with the club. On 28 August 2018, Hindmarsh was inducted into the Parramatta Eels hall of fame.
1979Paul Mara, American ice hockey player[â ]
Paul Richard Mara is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman, former head coach of the Boston Pride in the PHF, and current Assistant Coach of the Hartford WolfPack in the AHL. Additionally, he served temporarily as an Assistant to Player Development for the New York Rangers of the NHL in 2023-24.
1979Owen Pallett, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player[â ]
Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright, known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having served as a string arranger and touring member of the band. In January 2014, Pallett and Arcade Fire member William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of the film Her (2013).
1979Brian Stokes, American baseball player[â ]
Brian Alexander Stokes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball.
1979I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893)[â ]
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential ĂŚsthetic object.
1979The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5Â billion to avoid bankruptcy.[â ]
FCA US, LLC, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler, is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automotive company Stellantis. Stellantis North America sells vehicles worldwide under the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram Trucks nameplates. It also includes Mopar, its automotive parts and accessories division, and SRT, its performance automobile division. The division also distributes Alfa Romeo, Fiat, and Maserati vehicles in North America.
W Bowman Cutter, associate director of Office of Management and Budget, tells task force of Senate Banking Committee that Carter Administration rejects 2âphase kind of syntheticâfuel plan taking shape in Congress, which would involve testing several technologies before deciding which ones to pursue aggressively; indicates that Administration has cut hack production goals, from 2.5 million bbls of oil equivalent a day to 1.75 million bbls a day by '90; says Administration is willing to require that Energy Security Corp, which will direct program, seek separate Congressional approval for each of four $22 billion installments of its financing; Sen Russell Long, chairman of Senate Finance Committee, protests that Carter Administration is lumping together in proposed Energy Trust Fund proceeds of windfall profits tax and additional revenue that existing corporateâtax laws will produce as result of decontrol; illus (M)
RCA Corp announces plan to sell Random House as soon as it finds buyer (M)
profile of and interview with soloist Jolinda Menendez, who is company's first new swan queen in 6 years of NY performances of âSwan Lakeâ; illus (M)
gold soars above $340 an ounce, trading at record $341.75, Zurich; traders see panic buying; other facors cited (M)
Pres Carter's commuting of sentences of 4 Puerto Rican nationalists is expected to clear way for release of Americans Lawrence Lunt, Juan Tar, Everett Jackson and Claudio Morales, who are held by Cuban Government; Pres Castro has offered to exchange prisoners for nationalists (S)
As speculative fever has gripped gold markets and pushed prices to record levels in recent weeks, silver prices have advanced almost in lockstep, climbing from about $6 an ounce at the beginning of the year to $11.80 an ounce at yesterday's trading close.
Some liberal Senators join conservatives in saying that treaty limiting strategic nuclear arms would be either defeated or substantially altered if it reaches Senate before Pres Carter has achieved satisfactory solution of problem posed by newly discovered presence of Soviet troops in Cuba; Carter Administration officials have suggested that satisfactory solution might be a Soviet pledge not to use combat forces in any role outside Cuba; Sen Robert Dole offers resolution saying that Senate will not consider arms pact until Carter reports to it in writing that all Soviet troops have been removed from Cuba; Dole does not attempt to get vote on resolution after Sen Robert Byrd says he would block such a parliamentary objection; Sen Frank Church confers with Vance and other State Dept officials (M)
Puppet figures with people inside them will cavort on East Ninth Street between First and Second Avenues this evening — and in Brooklyn tomorrow — as the Bread and Puppet Theater winds up a series of free performances in New York. At 5 P.M. tonight, washerwomen with large puppet heads, wearing peasant dresses and aprons, will appear at a street fair in vignettes from the troupe's play “Washerwoman Nativity.” Then at 7, same location, Bread and Puppet dancing bears, jugglers, fairy tale figures and who knows what else will present a circus. The next afternoon, a larger version of the circus will be offered at a site that has more elbow room, in the Nelly Bly Amusement Park, Shore and Bay Parkways in Bensonhurst. For infor996‐9002.
NY Federal Reserve Bank reports business loans at major NYC banks rose record $1.14 billion in week ended Sept 5; reports âtotalâ commercial and industrial loans, including bankers acceptances, rose record $1.32 billion; figures seen showing that credit remains abundant; bank reports Mâ1 rose $600 million and Mâ2 $1.7 billion in week ended Aug 29; MarâAug Mâ1 graph (M)
John S Dyson, chairman of NYS Power Authority, says agency will seek permission to build a billionâdollar garbageâ and coalâfueled power plant in Arthur Kill section of Staten Island instead of in South Bronx; has approval of Gov Carey, who promised during '78 election that authority would not build plant at Arthur Kill; Mayor Koch scores change of plan and says city will fight it; Dyson says he would also like to build small garbageâburning power plants in city's 4 other boroughs as part of effort to close dump at Fresh Kills; map (M)
Henry Ford 2d, outgoing chief executive of Ford Motor Co, says he may have been wrong to back Pres Carter in '76 and that he has not decided whom to back in '80, news conf (S)
scientists report spacecraft's discovery of 11th moon orbiting Saturn as well as 2d ring of debris circling planet; say radio interference from orbiting Soviet satellite bad not, as previously thought, wiped out transmissions of temperature measurements of Titan, Saturn's largest moon; project scientist Dr Andrew Ingersoll says data were degraded by combined effects of solar storm and poor land transmissions from tracking stations and that it will be impossible to determine Titan's surface temperature and to answer questions about possibility of existing life forms; new moon is approximately $6,000 miles out from planet's cloud tops and about 4,000 miles inside orbit of Janus; new ring is found in region between orbits of Rhea and Titan; diagram (M)