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President Carter, campaigning here with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, announced last night that he would seek to ease the "crushing burden" of welfare and Medicaid costs in New York City.
Thousands of subway riders met delays yesterday morning because of a heavy smoke fire and a teen-ager's fall onto a subway track in Manhattan. Thousands more were delayed because, on three troubled D trains in Brooklyn, frustrated passengers refused to leave.
Ronald Reagan's efforts to capture New York's 41 electoral votes, a tantalizing prize that would almost guarantee him the White House, are being hindered by doubts within his own party and countered by President Carter's all-out attempt to lock in traditional Democrats, especially in New York City.
Representative Elizabeth Holtzman is appealing to a broad geographic, ideological, political and religious spectrum in the contest for United States Senator from New York, a New York Times/CBS News survey showed yesterday.
UPTON, L.I. THEY called it Inner Mongolia. It was a stark and almost inaccessible workplace that James Cronin and Val Fitch discovered for themselves in a crowded Brookhaven National Laboratory here in 1963. But it was big enough to enable the pair to conduct experiments that won them the Nobel Prize in Physics last week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 15, 1980, covering October 21, 1980.
Queen
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross
Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra
The Doobie Brothers
1980Kim Kardashian, American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite[†]
Kimberly Noel Kardashian is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after the sex tape Kim Kardashian, Superstar, which she filmed in 2003 with her then-boyfriend Ray J, was released in 2007. Later that year, she and her family began to appear on the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which aired until 2021. Its success led to the formation of several spin-offs, including Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012), Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009–2013), and a successor show, Hulu's The Kardashians (2022–present).
1980Brian Pittman, American bass player[†]
Brian Lee Pittman is an American musician most notable as the former bassist for the Christian rock band Relient K, of which he was a founding member. He has also played bass for the Christian metal band Inhale Exhale.
1980Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (born 1906)[†]
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician. Noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, he is the namesake of the former autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome. He wrote more than 300 publications on psychological disorders that posthumously acquired international renown in the 1980s. His diagnosis of autism, which he termed "autistic psychopathy", garnered controversy.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]