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in most drastic step since deterioration of relations with Communist China, Govt will expel thousands of Chinese workers, in Mongolia under '55 pact; maps
D Levy holds aide to Repr Buckley offered him unltd funds to enter primary to split reform vote; discloses offer after attack by J B Bingham, Buckley's primary opponent in 23d Dist, and other reform leaders who said Buckley people approached him to run in 23d; Buckley threatens suit
Cuba reptdly seeks Spanish diplomatic aid for improving US ties; Rusk statement that Cuba must 1st stop Latin-Amer subversion and cut ties with USSR recalled
White House repts new budget estimates showing $700 million spending drop for fiscal '64 and '65 and drop in revenues of $400 million for net spending drop of $300 million; most of spending drop, $600 million, will be in fiscal '65
survey of Johnson's 1st 6 mos in office notes Repub efforts to link him to case
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 1964, covering May 22, 1964.
The Beatles
Original Cast
The Dave Clark Five
Barbra Streisand
The Beatles
1964U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program.[â ]
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson previously represented Texas in Congress for over 23 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1937 to 1949, and then as a U.S. senator from 1949 to 1961.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]