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still secret paper, NSC-68, prepared by Natl Security Council in '50, linked to Truman-MacArthur dispute over war conduct; paper laid prohibitions on MacArthur wish 'to carry war to the enemy' for fear of 3d world war
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FIGHT FOR FREE ENTERPRISE continues against Port Authority and Gov. Rockefeller's World Trade Center. Interested? Write Downtown West Businessmen's Association, 63 Cort and St. N. Y. 7.
LA FONDA DEL SOLmay run small ads, but they serve big steaks. Time‐Life Bldg. —ADVT.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 1964, covering April 13, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Al Hirt
Original Cast
Barbra Streisand
1964Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster[â ]
Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for over 450 weeks, reaching a high ranking of 2nd. He captained the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in 2012 and 2016. Love was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.
1964Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (born 1891)[â ]
Kristian August Krefting was a Norwegian footballer, military officer, chemical engineer and company owner. He was Norwegian champion with the club Lyn in 1910 and 1911, and was on the Norway national football team at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
1964At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.[â ]
The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, hosted by Jack Lemmon at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This ceremony introduced the category for Best Sound Effects, with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World being the first film to win the award.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]