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The cane sugar industry, which is still adjusting itself to the aftermath of the Cuban revolution, is finding a new crop of problems in Havana, the laboratory and its own backyard.
PARK CITY, Utah, Feb. 15—Neither snow, nor cold, nor sleet, nor ice is slowing ore production here in the operating mines of Utah's oldest silver camp, “but those ski gals are liable to bring work to a shuddering stop anytime soon.” That's the considered opinion of mining men lining the bar in The Bucket, Tommy Matthews's popular spa in Park City.
AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Dept leaders score US sale, urge Johnson to halt 'dangerous program'; Gleason to order ILA longshoremen at Gulf and Atlantic ports to stop loading Continental shipments; urges mothball fleet be activated to provide more Amer vessels; SIU pres Hall says union criticism of sale is 1st serious labor-Adm split over issue, that unions have reached no accord with Govt that would permit 60% of grain to be shipped in foreign ships, 40% in Amer ships
TRAVEL is broadening, and you can get some of the good of it by staying at home. The World's Fair is two months off, but New York begins to look like a global theater center.
Birth anniv; celebration set, Fredericksburg, Va; mementos there linked to him and family noted
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 1964, covering February 16, 1964.
The Beatles
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
Peter| Paul & Mary
The Beach Boys
Soundtrack
1964Bebeto, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as Bebeto, is a Brazilian former professional football player who played as a forward. He entered politics in the 2010 Brazilian general elections and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro representing the Democratic Labour Party.
1964Christopher Eccleston, English actor[†]
Christopher Eccleston is an English actor whose work has encompassed Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films, television dramas, Shakespearean stage performances and science fiction, most notably the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who (2005). He starred as Matt Jamison in The Leftovers (2014–2017), and has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom.
1964James M. Canty, American educator, school administrator, and businessperson (born 1865)[†]
James Munroe Canty was an American educator, school administrator, and businessperson. Canty was an acting principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1898 and is considered by West Virginia State as an acting president. Canty also served as the superintendent of Mechanical Industries for West Virginia Colored Institute from 1893 through 1914.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]