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WIDE-RANGING research on tooth decay that scientists hope may make caries a rarity within the next decade has produced some provocative recent surprises.
IF a new promotion policy advocated by Frank J. Macchiarola, the city school chancellor, is implemented in New York City in June, an estimated 17,000 fourth graders and 26,000 seventh graders will be held back and have to repeat their grades.
BETHPAGE, L.I., Dec. 15--The president of Grumman Flxible said today that cracks in the frames of his company's new buses in New York City had developed "randomly" and had been caused by rough city roads and overcrowding by passengers.
ALBANY, Dec. 15--The ailing Delaware Hudson Railway Company, the only competitor to the Consolidated Rail Corporation in many parts of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, says the key to its survival is an overhaul of its route structure and more Government funds.
Eastern Air Lines Inc., the nation's fifth-largest airline, and Braniff International, eighth in size but shrinking under the impact of severe financial setbacks, jointly announced yesterday that they were holding "preliminary discussions" on a possible merger.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1980, covering December 16, 1980.
Kenny Rogers
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
1980Danish Kaneria, Pakistani cricketer[†]
Danish Parabha Shankar Kaneria, is a Pakistani former cricketer who played for the Pakistan national cricket team between 2000 and 2010. A right-arm leg spinner who could bowl a googly, Kaneria played 61 Test matches for Pakistan and took 261 wickets at an average of 34.79. He was the second Hindu, after his cousin Anil Dalpat, and the seventh non-Muslim overall to represent Pakistan in international cricket.
1980Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (born 1890)[†]
Harland David Sanders was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken. He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.
1980Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer (born 1900)[†]
Hellmuth Walter was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, so-called Starthilfe jettisonable rocket propulsion units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as air-independent propulsion (AIP).
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]