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article on impact of bond price plunge on brokerage house bond trading desks discusses situation at Salomon Brothers Government-bond trading desk; desk head Craig Coats and Salomon executive Thomas Strauss comment; illus (M)
4 of 16 jurors are dismissed after receiving similar letters (M)
Cuchulain, the Warrior King (Play): Christopher Martin, artistic director of CSC Repertory Co, which is producing play, interviewed
NYC, having largely stemmed industrial exodus of last decade, is beginning campaign to encourage industries in West Germany, Britain and Japan to build new plants in city; NYC Business Marketing Corp seeks to attract light industry; has allocated $250,000 to campaign and has placed its first overseas ads and plans within 6 months to start sending delegations of city officials and business executives to visit companies in 3 countries; campaign was designed by Peter J Solomon, Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy and Development; between '69 and '77, city lost 600,000 jobs; city has regained some of loss, but most of gain has been in white collar jobs in Manhattan; new campaign is designed to seek out industrial plants and skilled blue collar jobs for other, more economically depressed, boros; illus of ads (M)
The stock market calmed after three days of turbulent trading and plunging prices. Volume shrank to 47.5 million shares, still heavy, from 81.6 million on Wednesday, and the Dow Jones industrial average slid 4.70 points to 844.62 after skidding 48.29 points in the previous three sessions. Aggressive buying by big institutional investors stabilized the market. [Page A1.]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1979, covering October 12, 1979.
Led Zeppelin
The Knack
Bob Dylan
Commodores
Michael Jackson
1979Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician[†]
Steven Agnew is a Northern Irish Environmental Director and former politician who served as the leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland between 2011 and 2018, and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 2011 to 2019.
1979Steve Borthwick, English rugby player[†]
Stephen William Borthwick is an English rugby union coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of the England national team. As a player, he played as a lock for Bath and Saracens. At international level, he played for England 57 times from his debut in 2001; he served as captain from 2008, until he was dropped from the side in 2010.
1979Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jordan Izaak Pundik is an American singer. He is a founding member and the frontman of Floridian rock band New Found Glory, for whom he sings lead vocals and contributes lyrics. He was also the guitarist in the band's now-defunct side project International Superheroes of Hardcore, where he performed under the pseudonym of "Chugga Chugga".
1979Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.[†]
Typhoon Tip, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Warling, was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. The forty-third tropical depression, nineteenth tropical storm, twelfth typhoon, and third super typhoon of the 1979 Pacific typhoon season, Tip developed out of a disturbance within the monsoon trough on October 4 near Pohnpei in Micronesia. Initially, Tropical Storm Roger to the northwest hindered the development and motion of Tip, though after the storm tracked farther north, Tip was able to intensify. After passing Guam, Tip rapidly intensified and reached peak sustained winds of 305 km/h (190 mph) and a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 hPa (25.69 inHg) on October 12. At its peak intensity, Tip was the largest tropical cyclone on record, with a wind diameter of 2,220 km (1,380 mi). Tip slowly weakened as it continued west-northwestward and later turned to the northeast, in response to an approaching trough. The typhoon made landfall in southern Japan on October 19, and became an extratropical cyclone shortly thereafter. Tip's extratropical remnants continued moving east-northeastward, until they dissipated near the Aleutian Islands on October 24.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]