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book portrays company as often ‘befuddled giant’ that is short on planning and creativity and long on executive ‘perks and cronyism’; DeLorean was to be co-author of book, but he withdrew from project in '78; DeLorean illustration (M)
Basic fares, 1 year after airline industry deregulation, have risen almost 25% since January and carriers, faced with rising jet fuel costs and declining profits, are making disount plans less generous and more difficult to obtain (M)
article on new luxury high-rises in Manhattan notes rooms have become smaller and rents higher; typical 1-bedroom rents for $700; new luxury buildings scheduled to open in '82 noted; model-room designer Elaine Lewis, rental agent J I Sopher and Rent Stabilization Assn president Frank Kristof comment; illus; map (L)
UNIONDALE, L.I., Nov. 10 — “We have nowhere to go but up,” said Glenn (Chico) Resch tonight following the Islanders’ 5‐2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. It was the Flyers’ first regularseason National Hockey League victory at Nassau Coliseum since April 5, 1975, and it put them 10 points ahead of the Islanders in the Patrick Division race.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 1979, covering November 11, 1979.
Eagles
Led Zeppelin
Styx
Commodores
Foreigner
1979Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (born 1894)[†]
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Rio Bravo, and Last Train from Gun Hill.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]