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US-Cambodian dispute near settlement after US gets and reptdly approves compromise worked out by Philippine Amb Farolan
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Murrow resigns because of health; Johnson tribute; names Amb Rowan, Negro, successor; post is 1 of highest ever occupied by Negro; Rowan to be 1st Negro to sit in Natl Security Council
Moreland Act Comm calls for repeal of compulsory price maintenance by SLA, final rept to Rockefeller; says competitive mkt will cut prices by about $1 on 1/5 gal; includes chart comparing retail prices on 18 brands sold in NYS pkg stores with those in 7 other cities; proposes 6-mo transition period after repeal; again denies lower prices will raise consumption; indus scores proposal
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 22, 1964, covering January 22, 1964.
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
Peter| Paul & Mary
Elvis Presley
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Peter| Paul & Mary
1964Nigel Benn, English-Australian boxer[†]
Nigel Gregory Benn, is a former British professional boxer who competed from 1987 to 1996. A two-weight world champion, he held the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and reigned as the WBC super-middleweight champion from 1992 to 1996. He held the regional Commonwealth middleweight title from 1988 to 1989, and defeated several world champions, including Doug DeWitt, Iran Barkley, Thulani Malinga, Mauro Galvano, and Gerald McClellan.
1964Stojko Vranković, Croatian basketball player[†]
Stojan "Stojko" Vranković is a Croatian professional basketball executive and former player. He served as the president of the Croatian Basketball Federation from 2016 to 2022.
1964Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (born 1905)[†]
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translation/adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]