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The battle for dominance in the fastmoving market for facsimile machines took an unexpected turn yesterday when one of the leaders, the Qwip Systems division of Exxon Enterprises Inc., introduced a new model that surprised the industry because it embodied nothing new or technologically forward-looking.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 12--The International Olympic Committee unanimously reaffirmed Moscow as the site of the XXII Olympic Summer Games tonight, but left open the possibility of reconsidering the issue later.
NUTRITION, so long virtually ignored by government, educators and the medical profession, has suddenly be come a hot topic, and where there once was a dearth of information, there now is a surfeit. It should help clarify the
A strong final-hour rally propelled stock prices yesterday to a 16-month high as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average.
GIOTTO did it. And of course, da Vinci. So did Botticelli--while Giuliano de Medici had it done. Rembrandt did it of himself. Reynolds and Romney hardly ever did anything else. Picasso did it, but Gertrude Stein, who had it done, hardly recognized it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 13, 1980, covering February 13, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson
Eagles
Dan Fogelberg
1980Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer[†]
Carlos Omar Cotto Cruz is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler and boxer. As a wrestler, he perform under the alias of El Chicano and has performed mostly for the International Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Council. While performing for the first, Cotto became the only person to win all eligible championships, later becoming a Universal Heavyweight Champion in the second. Locally, he has held the main title of a promotion nine times. Abroad, Cotto has worked for AAA in 2010 and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in 2016.
1980David Janssen, American actor (born 1931)[†]
David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O'Hara, U.S. Treasury; and Harry O.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]