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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[ā ]
1979Khalil Greene, American baseball player[ā ]
Khalil Thabit Greene is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. Despite playing in fewer than five full seasons for the team, Greene is the Padres' career leader in home runs at the shortstop position.
1979Gabe Gross, American baseball player[ā ]
Gabriel Jordan Gross is an American former professional baseball outfielder who is currently the hitting coach for the Auburn Tigers.
1979Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.[ā ]
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 ArabāIsraeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953ā1958) during the 1956 Sinai War, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 20 — Southern California may not be elected the best team in the land this year because of a tie with Stanford a week ago, but Charles White looked every bit like the best individual in college football today. The 21‐year‐old Trojan running
Article on Westchester County referendum on county-owned utility discusses how utility takeovers have worked out elsewhere in NYS (M)
Book Testimony. The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov and translated by Antonina W Bouis reviewed; drawing
Article on increase in moves by stockholders and management to dissolve going business because stock value is less than market value of company and its assets, and also because of ability to reap windfall profits tax by distributing proceeds to shareholders and thereby save capital gains tax of up to 30%; cites recent transactions of this nature (L)
Article on Connecticut's campaign to purchase development rights of 325,000 prime acres of farm land and sell it to farmers at a lower cost for agriculture use; notes state paid George Hindinger $750,000 to keep his farm in agricultural use; says farms are threatened by encroachment of towns; illus (M)
Article on NJ real estate broker Wayne Pomanowski, who is in midst of legal confrontation with Monmouth County Realtors Board; Pomanowski resigned from board 2 years ago, over whether or not, as non-member, he should be permitted access to its multiple-listing service; case, which begain in Apr '77, discussed; commenting are Pomanowski's lawyers Frederick A Organ and Paul Strawinski and board's attorney C Keith Henderson and president Walter Denise; Pomanowski por (M)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 20 — If Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria had followed the book when he feared that Honduras might turn over some Nicaraguan political refugees to Anastasio Somoza Debayle and certain death, he would have called on the Austrian Ambassador to Mexico.
Jimmy Carter, Paul A. Volcker and G. William Miller took to the road last week — the President from the White House to the Middle West, Mr. Volcker from the Federal Reserve and Mr. Miller from the Treasury to Capitol Hill. Their mission was probable — the selling of the Fed's new anti‐inflation policy to worriers about the recessionary effects of supertight money. The salesmen couldn't have asked for a stronger supporting argument than last week's figures on the gross national product for the third quarter.
Anthony Austin article holds Soviet TV is still 'propagandists voice' of Government but that it has come long way since '60's in its technical aspects; interviews some top Soviet TV officials and actors; illus (L)
Travel article on tour of old churches in East Anglia, England; map; illus (L)
Scene in White Plains, NY, offices of NYS Lotto lottery game described; illus (M)
Continued from I'uge 54 few days before the military junta officially deposed Isabel Peron, Noni's husband, Adrian Saidon, also 24 years old, was gunned down in the street when he did not obey the command to halt. His body was never recovered.