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O'Grady repts engineering rev convinces NYCTA that 64th St route is best, Estimate Bd and City Council Finance Com hearing; holds 61st St route would cost $90.22 million as against $86.09 million for 64th St routs; says NYCTA would rev matter if seismological studies showed threat to Rockefeller Inst
FORTRAN IV spoken here. 7094 has time on its hands and is willing to talk business. ITT Data Processing Center. 201 COlfax 2‐8700.—Advt.
USSR charges Albania seized USSR Embassy bldgs in Tirana after having ousted 3 caretakers in Dec; protests seizure; 1 bldg illus
LET THEM EAT CAKE. appetizers and entrees that look beautiful, taste great! Follow food news features and recipes on The New York Times women's page.—Advt.
J. PAUL GETTY'S EMPIRE—Why are the shares of the “Getty Group” near '63‐'64 highs? What's our oil tycoon up to? Today's World‐Telegram—Advt.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 1964, covering February 25, 1964.
The Beatles
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
The Beatles
Peter| Paul & Mary
Al Hirt
1964Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (born 1887)[†]
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States. He was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figures into geometrical forms.
1964Grace Metalious, American author (born 1924)[†]
Grace Metalious was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing history.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]