1950Year Delicacy shops here are ready with several proposed solutions to the problem of what to give for Christmas. The attractive, often novel, packages of food they have assembled should appeal to anyone who likes good things to eat, whether it be a busy housewife... Packages of Food Delicacies Offer A Variety of Attractive Yule Gifts

1994Year Jay Blackton, a music director for movies and Broadway shows, died on Saturday at Granada Hills Community Hospital in Granada Hills, Calif. He was 84 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Louise. Jay Blackton Is Dead

1967Year Downey, Wallace WALLACE DOWNEY

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1993Year IF reaching the pop charts is the measure of a record producer's having "made it," then Richard Petty has arrived. His company's production of "Dance It Up," by the band C. Force, recently reached No. 16 in the biweekly survey of disk jockeys in metropolitan Washington. Granted, it was not Billboard's Hot 100. But the ranking conferred a new status on a techno-music genre usually heard only in aerobics classes. Interface: People and Technology