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EFFORTS in Congress to produce legislation providing financial aid for college students in the next five years have come down to a pair of delicate balancing acts in which lawmakers are trying to satisfy constituencies with conflicting needs.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which began public hearings yesterday on a possible increase in subway and bus fares, disclosed last night that it had already begun modifying subway turnstiles to accept new, more expensive tokens.
ALBANY, June 2--New York City and its semi-independent agencies spent $279,860 to lobby before the State Legislature and state commissions last year, more than any private or public organization in the state, an agency report disclosed today.
LONDON, June 2--Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher today accepted a plan for settlement of Britain's budget...
POWERFUL drugs that revolutionized the practice of psychiatry over the past 25 years and facilitated the release of hundreds of thousands of patients from...
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 28, 1980, covering June 3, 1980.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Pink Floyd
Eric Clapton
Lipps Inc.
1980Amauri, Italian international footballer[†]
Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, known as Amauri, is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker.
1980The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $1145 million in 2024) worth of damage.[†]
The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, also known as The Night of the Twisters, was a tornado outbreak that produced a series of destructive tornadoes that affected the city of Grand Island, Nebraska, on Tuesday, June 3, 1980. Seven tornadoes touched down in or near the city that night, killing five people and injuring 200.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]