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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. N a new film by Ken Brown, an animator here, the scenes resemble any number of absurdist comments on modern society. In one, a crowd watches a toaster plunge into the La Brea Tar Pits, where the ...
DETROIT, May 14 Sales of American-made new passenger cars by the Big Three auto makers plunged 42.8 percent in the May 1-10 selling period, compared with the year-earlier period,...
A special 20-member task force to investigate terrorist activities in New York City will be set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the city's Police Department.
Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said yesterday that economic circumstances had changed enough for the board to "legitimately look forward to dismantling" the credit controls imposed two months ago as a main instrument in the Government's anti-inflation efforts.
New York City made a wage proposal to its 242,000 employees yesterday that would provide delayed wage increases of 9 percent and lump sum payments of 3 percent over a two-year contract.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 1980, covering May 15, 1980.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Pink Floyd
Billy Joel
Linda Ronstadt
Eric Clapton
1980Josh Beckett, American baseball player[†]
Joshua Patrick Beckett is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). A three-time MLB All-Star, he played for the Florida Marlins, the Boston Red Sox, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1980Gordon Prange, American historian and author (born 1910)[†]
Gordon William Prange was the author of several World War II historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years (1942–1951) of military service in the United States Navy during World War II, and in the postwar military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. It was during this time that Prange collected material from and interviewed many Japanese military officers, enlisted men, and civilians, with the information later being used in the writing of his books. Several became New York Times bestsellers, including At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Miracle at Midway.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]