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FORGOING a few extra games of bowling, bridge and golf, 72year-old Ralph Weinstein spends several days a week working as a remedial-reading tutor at the Ridgeway elementary school in White Plains. So does his wife, Lillian.
AUBURN, Ala., Nov. 15 You seldom win in any sport without big plays. The University of Georgia football team turned in one big play after another today, made the most of them and defeated Auburn, 31-21.
HARTFORD SENATORS James J. Murphy Jr., Richard F. Schneller, Cornelius P. O'Leary and Howard T. Owens Jr. looked a little startled one day last week as they suddenly came face to face with each other in a corridor outside the State Senate chamber at the Capitol.
MINEOLA EACH morning of the week, Acting State Supreme Court Justice Leo F. McGinity Sr. and his wife, Mary, go to mass at a church near their Baldwin home to pray for the safe return of their missing son.
WORKING farms can be like prisons. Everyone agrees that they're needed but not in the backyard. The steady encroachment of suburban development on what is left of New Jersey's agricultural community has intensified urban-rural tensions and, in many cases, made life miserable for farmers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1980, covering November 16, 1980.
Bruce Springsteen
Barbra Streisand
Kenny Rogers
Stevie Wonder
Queen
1980Moris Carrozzieri, Italian footballer[†]
Moris Carrozzieri is an Italian former football defender.
1980Kayte Christensen, American basketball player[†]
Kayte Lauren Christensen is an American color commentator for the Sacramento Kings and former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association.
1980Nicole Gius, Italian skier[†]
Nicole Gius is an Italian alpine skier. She was born in Schlanders, Italy. She competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
1980Carol Huynh, Canadian wrestler[†]
Carol Huynh is a retired Canadian freestyle wrestler. Huynh was the first gold medalist for Canada in women's wrestling and the first gold medallist for the country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is also the 2010 Commonwealth Games and two-time Pan American Games champion. She has also achieved success at the world championships where Huynh has totaled one silver and three bronze medals. Huynh is also an eleven time national champion. Following the 2012 Olympics, Huynh retired from competition and started coaching the University of Calgary Dinos wrestling team. Huynh was elected to the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013. In early 2015 she was selected as a United World Wrestling Super 8 Ambassador for the global campaign focusing on the development of women in wrestling and has also served as the Chair of the United World Wrestling Athletes Commission from 2013 to 2017. As of 2020 she is the current coach of Wrestling Canada's Next Gen team based in Calgary.
1980Hasan Üçüncü, Turkish footballer[†]
Hasan Üçüncü is a retired Turkish footballer. Üçüncü was born in Sürmene, Trabzon Province. Standing at 177 cm and weighing 74 kg, he wears the # 15 jersey and plays in the midfield position. He assisted Gökdeniz Karadeniz's goal against Galatasaray in the second half of the 2005-2006 Süper Lig season, helping Gökdeniz come back from a long suspension.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]