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Newberry Library, Chicago, buys rare book collection of late L H Silver for record $2.75 million; collection detailed; earlier bid by Tex U noted
contracts signed, Washington, to build experimental fast breeder reactor, producing more nuclear fuel than it consumes, near Fayetteville, Ark; participants are Southwest Atomic Energy Assocs (17 utilities), GE, US AEC, Karlsruhe Research Center (W Ger) and Euratom; Southwest to pay $5.9 million, Ger $5 million (40% to be borne by Euratom), and GE the rest of $12.35-million bldg cost; AEC to pay up to $12.7 million for research and development; tech and patents developed to be freely available to gen reactor indus; reactor to burn natural uranium and produce heat and fissionable plutonium
Khrushchev and Nasser set off blast diverting river at Aswan; Khrushchev calls dam '8th wonder' of world and decorates Nasser for initiating work; Presidents Ben Bella (Algeria), Arif (Iraq) and al-Salal present; 3 workers caught in rush of water after explosion; 1 presumed drowned; maps; illus
conf ends with NATO stronger than expected; US officials rept France isolated in opposition to integration principle
US issues order requiring export license for sales in move to tighten trade curbs; food exemption from gen '60 embargo for humanitarian reasons noted
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 1964, covering May 15, 1964.
The Beatles
Original Cast
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
Al Hirt
1964Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Denmark[†]
Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a Danish politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He was Leader of the Venstre party from 2009 to 2019.
1964Vladko Maček, Croatian lawyer and politician (born 1879)[†]
Vladimir Maček was a politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) following the 1928 assassination of Stjepan Radić, Maček had been a leading Croatian political figure until the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. As a leader of the HSS, Maček played a key role in establishment of the Banovina of Croatia, an autonomous banovina in Yugoslavia in 1939.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]