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TRENTON ON THOSE mornings when Donna Lawrence makes the 30-minute drive from her home in Hamilton Square to her job as a nurse at the Mercer Medical Center, she takes along her 4-year-old daughter, Kristin. At 7:45, she leaves Kristin at the Mercer Children's Center, a mile from the hospital.
HARTFORD THE argument over taxes fre quently takes two forms, depending on one's point of view: 1. Connecticut raises money in a cruel fashion, and as a result
MOSCOW LENIN STADIUM, where the multicolored Olympic rings had just been raised above slogans that say, "Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union," was not full of spectators the way it was yesterday at the opening ceremonies of the XXII Olympic Summer Games.
WASHINGTON, July 19--The Justice Department learned in May that the Libyan Government hoped to gain political influence inside the White House by paying off the President's brother, according to Government officials familiar with the case.
Washington Heights-Inwood, perhaps best known for The Cloisters, Morris Jumel Mansion and vast expanses of parklands, is fast emerging as one of the city's busiest neighborhoods of housing rehabilitation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 1980, covering July 20, 1980.
Billy Joel
Eric Clapton
Paul McCartney
London Symphony Orchestra (Williams)
Pete Townshend
1980Tesfaye Bramble, English-Montserratian footballer[†]
Tesfaye Walda Simeon "Tes" Bramble is a former professional footballer and convicted rapist. He made over 200 appearances in the Football League, scoring 43 goals, between 2001 and 2007. Born in England, he made one international appearance for the Montserrat national team.
1980Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model, fashionista, and businesswoman[†]
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
1980Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (born 1887)[†]
Maria Poveka Montoya Martinez was a Pueblo artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez, her husband Julian, and other family members, including her son Popovi Da, examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people's legacy of fine artwork and crafts. The works of Maria Martinez, and especially her black ware pottery, are in the collections of many museums, including the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and more. The Penn Museum in Philadelphia holds eight vessels – three plates and five jars – signed either "Marie" or "Marie & Julian".
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]