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Erratic price swings buffeted the precious metals and copper futures markets yesterday in trading dominated by the expiration of the pivotal spot, or maturing, January contracts.
WILL reputable scientists ever accept the claim that extrasensory perception and other "paranormal powers" really exist?
Energy these days means soaring prices--gasoline is already up around $1.20 a gallon, home heating oil is closing in on $1 a gallon. It also means potential shortages--the Federal goal calls for using 8 to 9 percent less gasoline than a year ago in the New York metropolitan area. In response, many people are changing how they live--and how they think.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28--President Carter sent to Congress today a budget for the fiscal year 1981 that holds the line on most nonmilitary programs, forecasts a mild recession and high unemployment, and omits the usual antirecession, election-year tonic of a tax cut.
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands -- Electronic microchips have become Western Europe's newest industrial status symbol, and the battle to produce them is heating up.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 1980, covering January 29, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
1980Jason James Richter, American actor and musician[†]
Jason James Richter is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role in the Free Willy film series as Jesse, the boy who befriends Willy the orca.
1980Jimmy Durante, American entertainer (born 1893)[†]
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]