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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1 At Paramount Studios the name Marshall is magic. Beginning with "The Odd Couple" and followed by "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork Mindy," the Marshall family has produced some of television's most popular and longest-running series.
CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON is a blond, blue-eyed, 19 month-old boy with a rare distinction. He was enrolled in the Seton Day Care Center for Infants before he was conceived.
Mayor Koch announced yesterday that $108 million would be spent over the next five years to provide comprehensive health care in Harlem's impoverished and medically underserved neighborhoods.
"New York City's bus routes will no longer be a streetcar named confusion," City Council President Carol Bellamy said yesterday as she watched the installation of the first of 5,000 box-shaped "Guide-a-Ride" signs being placed on stanchions at bus stops in the five boroughs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 1980, covering October 2, 1980.
Queen
Diana Ross
George Benson
Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra
The Cars
1980Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.[†]
Michael Joseph "Ozzie" Myers is an American politician and convicted felon who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980. A member of the Democratic Party, Myers became involved in the Abscam scandal during his tenure in Congress and was expelled from the House after being caught taking bribes in a sting operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He spent three years in federal prison.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]