Racing Scholarship Awarded
Date: 17 May 1977
Edward Wilson wins assn's Grantland Rice Scholarship at Vanderbilt Univ (S)
Kentaro Minagawa (皆川 賢太郎, Minagawa Kentarō; born May 17, 1977) is a Japanese alpine skier. His first international successes were at the 1996 Junior World Championships in Schwyz, with a 5th rank in Slalom, and a 9th rank in Giant slalom.
Since the 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup he has been participating regularly in World Cup races, nine times ranking in the top ten. Shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics he ranked 4th in Wengen, Switzerland. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy he also ranked 4th, the best result of a Japanese skier since Chiharu Igaya's silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
In June 2009, he married Japanese popular freestyle skier, Aiko Uemura.
더 알아보기...1977년 5월 17일은(는) 화요일의 별 기호 아래에 있는 **♉**입니다. 올해의 136일이었습니다. 미국 대통령은 Jimmy Carter입니다.
이 날에 태어났다면 당신은 48살입니다. 마지막 생일은 2025년 5월 17일 토요일, 116일 전이었습니다. 다음 생일은 2026년 5월 17일 일요일일 후 248입니다. 당신은 17,648일, 약 423,561시간, 약 25,413,692분 또는 약 1,524,821,520초 동안 살았습니다.
Date: 17 May 1977
Edward Wilson wins assn's Grantland Rice Scholarship at Vanderbilt Univ (S)
Date: 18 May 1977
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr. Special to The New York Times
Newly released SEC files show Ashland Oil Inc apparently made corp contribution to John F Kennedy's campaign (S)
Date: 18 May 1977
By MICHAEL C. JENSEN Special to The New York Times
Michael JENSEN
SEC releases group of documents on pol payments scandals, including lrs between Braniff Airways chmn Harding L Lawrence and co stockholders on illegal $40,000 co contribution to Nixon's campaign; documents show Amer Airlines ex-head C R Smith, questioned by SEC attys about co's $20,000 contribution to campaign, said he was Dem and would have opposed contribution to Nixon; 3 M Co aide Wilbur M Bennett told attys how he passed large amt of cash to Nixon fund-raiser Maurice H Stans and Braniff exec Charles S South told them he inadvertently misidentified man who brought $40,000 in cash to his home (M)
Date: 17 May 1977
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
NBC News vp Lester M Crystal says Henry A Kissinger will participate in Dec special on foreign affairs, meeting with affiliates, Los Angeles; says special news programming will be substantially increased with addition of at least 1 new 4-times-a-yr series, Where We Stand; says program entitled Now will be tested in summer for possible activation as occasional series; vp Richard Fischer announces several changes in NBC Nightly News aimed at making it more interesting to viewers (M)
Date: 18 May 1977
most of 500,000 striking Basque workers return to work, heeding labor union warnings that continued strikes and unrest could joepardize Spain's 1st free election in 41 yrs (S)
Date: 17 May 1977
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, air traffic controller Gradimir Tasic receives 7-yr prison term for criminal negligence that led to mid-air collision of Brit Airways Trident and Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 in Sept '76, that killed 176 persons (S)