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accord on state aid to educ unsettled with disclosure that $27-million windfall from Teachers Retirement System will not be available in coming acad yr; Gov Rockefeller says Retirement Bd 1st decided it could reduce employer rate to pension system in current yr then revised view and held cut should not be made until following yr
NYS Legis is passing bills that would add at least $23.5 million yrly to city budget, bills being passed without home-rule messages from City Council or Wagner's approval; bills, in apparent evasion of NYS Const home-rule guarantees, are amendments to Gen Munic Law but apply only to NYC; unions representing city employes draft bills and give them to Legis members for introduction; chance of veto is slim because employes who will benefit are powerful pol pressure groups; Legis in '63 approved like bills mandating $48 million yrly in added costs that Wagner is trying to include in fiscal '65 budget without raising taxes
Friendly Sons of St Patrick bars newsmen from Pres Johnson address to conv, then relents under protests from newsmen
165 Amer-Armenians who were part of 2 groups totaling 312 who left US to come to Armenia in '47 and '49 under USSR repatriation program seek to return to US; earlier efforts resulted in jail or worse; details; map
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1964, covering March 18, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Al Hirt
Original Cast
Barbra Streisand
1964Bonnie Blair, American speed skater[â ]
Bonnie Kathleen Blair is a retired American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal.
1964Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver[â ]
Alessandro Giuseppe "Alex" Caffi is an Italian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1986 to 1992.
1964Jo Churchill, British politician[â ]
Johanna Peta Churchill is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury St Edmunds from 2015 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions from November 2023 until July 2024. She previously served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 2022 to 2023. In that role, she took part in the 2023 Coronation and the 2023 State Opening of Parliament.
1964Isabel Noronha, Mozambican film director[â ]
Isabel Helena Vieira Cordato de Noronha is a film director from Mozambique.
1964Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player[â ]
Courtney Pine, is a British jazz musician, who was the principal founder in the 1980s of the black British band the Jazz Warriors. Although known primarily for his saxophone playing, Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and keyboards. On his 2011 album, Europa, he plays almost exclusively bass clarinet.
1964Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1870)[â ]
Johannes Sigfrid Edström was a Swedish industrialist, chairman of the Sweden-America Foundation, and fourth president of the International Olympic Committee.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]