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Over the last 35 years, Bob Wilber, the jazz saxophonist, has been identified with Sidney Bechet and with Johnny Hodges.
Less than a year after New York voters approved a $500 million transportation bond issue, the possibility of a new bond issue was raised yesterday by Richard Ravitch, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
PARIS, Aug. 21 French Navy tugboats equipped with water cannons sailed into the Mediterranean port of Fos tonight in an attempt to break the blockade of the port by striking fishing trawlers.
METUCHEN, N.J. A walk down the underbody assembly lines at Ford Motor Company's plant here conveys a vivid impression of just how complicated an automobile is and how much planning and investment goes into a factory capable of producing new cars at the rate of almost one a minute.
IF you are caught in the city this weekend, wishing you could be away in the country, you have an option. That glorious and occasionally shabby swath of country-in-thecity, Central Park, will enfold you in greenery and let you be yourself in any one of scores of ways, or it will let you watch others in the act of being themselves.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 1980, covering August 22, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Jackson Browne
Billy Joel
Soundtrack
Queen
1980Roland Benschneider, German footballer[†]
Roland Benschneider is a German former professional footballer, who works as sports director at FC Energie Cottbus.
1980Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter[†]
Nicolas Macrozonaris is a Canadian Olympic track and field athlete who has won the 100 metre national title four times and once in the 200 metre.
1980Seiko Yamamoto, Japanese wrestler[†]
Seiko Yamamoto is a Japanese wrestler and submission grappler. She is a four time World Wrestling Champion, two time Asian Wrestling Champion and an ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship medallist.
1980James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (born 1899)[†]
James Smith "Mac" McDonnell was an American aviator, engineer, and businessman. He was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]