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CALABRITTO, Italy, Nov. 26 --Thousands of volunteers, impatient with the pace of the Government's relief effort, streamed into the mountain region east of Naples today to help the victims of Sunday's devastating earthquakes.
MOSCOW, Nov. 26--Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, told Senator Charles H. Percy in a long meeting in the Kremlin today that Moscow opposed any "stagnation" in efforts toward limiting strategic weapons.
Dozens of the nation's largest banks announced yesterday that they were increasing their prime lending rates to 17 percent from 17 percent, the fourth rise this month.
Cooper Industries Inc. of Houston and the Crouse-Hinds Company of Syracuse announced yesterday that they had agreed in principle to merge, further complicating a bitter takeover fight in which Internorth Inc. has been seeking to acquire a reluctant CrouseHinds.
Carl H. Lindner, the astute but publicity-shy Cincinnati financier, is seeking to convert his American Financial Corporation into a privately owned company, it was announced yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1980, covering November 27, 1980.
Bruce Springsteen
Barbra Streisand
Kenny Rogers
Stevie Wonder
Queen
1980Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jackie Greene is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has a solo career and became a member of The Black Crowes in 2013, though the band broke up in 2015 before he could contribute any studio work.
1980Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor[†]
Veronika Portsmuth is an Estonian conductor and singer.
1980Michael Yardy, English cricketer[†]
Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricket coach and former professional cricketer who played limited over internationals for the England cricket team between 2006 and 2011. He played as a left-handed batsman and captained Sussex County Cricket Club. He had an unusual batting technique which involved him taking guard outside leg stump before a pronounced shuffle across the crease immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowled slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action, and was used as a bowling all-rounder in England's One Day International and Twenty20 International teams. Yardy retired from professional cricket at the end of the 2015 season. Yardy was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
1980F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (born 1882)[†]
F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]