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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Todd Heap, American football player[†]
Todd Benjamin Heap is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Baltimore Ravens. He was selected to the Pro Bowl twice with the Ravens, earning second-team All-Pro honors in 2003.
1980Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player[†]
Felipe Reyes Cabanás is a Spanish former professional basketball player. He represented the senior Spain national team. Standing at a height of 2.06 m, and weighing 120 kg (260 lb), he plays at the power forward and center positions.
1980Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (born 1898)[†]
Tamara Łempicka, known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
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EGYPT'S pride of literary lions hangs out mornings on the sixth floor of the Al Ahram newspaper building on a dusty street in downtown Cairo. In a sunny corner office, wearing the black beret that has become his trademark, sits the venerable 81-year-old playwright, Tewfik al-Hakim.
WASHINGTON--In the year since the accident last March 28 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station plant in Pennsylvania, a dark cloud has fallen over nuclear power. Nuclear technology, along with the technologists, industrialists and utilities who try to ...
Former President Gerald R. Ford, after an emotional meeting with advisers in which he broke into tears, announced yesterday that he would not enter the race for the Republican Presidential nomination.
DETROIT, March 15--Some things were the same. Suleiman Nyambui again swept the mile run and two-mile run double easily. Don Paige repeated for the third time in the 1,000-yard run, and Curtis Dickey left his mark in the 60-yard dash before sprinting into professional football as a three-time indoor champion.
During the 1980's there is likely to be a disproportionate rise in the cost of rentals coupled with an even more chronic rental-unit famine. Inner-city homes should surge in value.
BEFORE long, the weather will turn warm enough for the fig trees to return to Westchester. Have they been gone?
WASHINGTON, March 15--Administration aides expressed surprise today over President Carter's statement last night in his news conference that the United States might renounce the strategic arms treaty even if Moscow continued to abide by its terms.
WASHINGTON, March 15--One day after President Carter presented his latest anti-inflation package, the reaction in various key areas made it clear today that the program faced obstacles on its way to being put into effect and many unanswered questions about what impact it would have.
Outside, only the rubble spilling out of the 56th Street entrance of the Bonwit Teller building indicates that demolition has begun. Inside, the once-lush interior decor lies in dusty sorted heaps of carpeting, venetian blinds, steel, bricks, sheet rock, tiles and copper wiring.
On the day Dr. Herman Tarnower was fatally shot, workers at the Westchester Heart Association, founded by the physician 30 years ago next month, were proofreading invitations to a dinner next month in his honor.