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NEW LONDON, Conn., June 20—A great Harvard crew crushed Yale today by about five lengths with a magnificent display of oarsmanship. The Crimson will now try for the Olympic nomination as an unbeaten, untied and perhaps untested eight.
THE public has become generally aware of the problems involved in ticket scalping, “ice” (kick‐backs to the box office and theater personnel and employes) and other improprieties tugging at the heart of the theater for years. While many choice seats at hit shows have regularly not been made available to the general public, because of current ticket distribution practices, the theater investor, the actor, the director and other creative people have not benefited from the high prices paid for such seats. On the other hand, the box‐office price of theater tickets has risen to a point where it is increasingly difficult for the
As the stock market staged an energetic and impressive ad‐vance early last week, Wall Street rekindled its traditional hopes for a summer rally. Some of the enthusiasm vanished toward the weekend, however, when the market displayed considerable nervousness.
US and foreign fleets increasing operations off S Amer; big gains in consumption attributed to improved freezing techniques; figures on '63 exports to US; co officials comment
J H Carmical on increasing exports to free world; main reason seen as need to get equipment and tech knowledge from West for other projects; '55-63 production and export chart; pipelines map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 1964, covering June 21, 1964.
Louis Armstrong
Barbra Streisand
Original Cast
The Beatles
Andy Williams
1964David Morrissey, English actor and director[†]
David Mark Joseph Morrissey is an English actor and filmmaker. He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the 1990s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003), Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003), The Governor in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of The Walking Dead (2012–2015), and DCS Ian St Clair in Sherwood (2022–present). He has also acted extensively on stage with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre.
1964Valeriy Neverov, Ukrainian chess player[†]
Valeriy Neverov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (1991) and four-time Ukrainian Chess Champion.
1964Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director and choreographer[†]
Dimitris Papaioannou is an Athenian born in 21 June 1964 who emerged from the Greek underground art scene as a defining figure. Starting as a comics creator, he became a director, choreographer, performer, and designer of sets, costumes, and lighting.
1964Dean Saunders, Welsh footballer and manager[†]
Dean Nicholas Saunders is a Welsh football manager and former professional footballer.
1964Doug Savant, American actor[†]
Douglas Peter Savant is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Matt Fielding in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–97), Tom Scavo in ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–12), and as Sgt. O'Neal in Godzilla (1998).
1964James Chaney, American civil rights activist (born 1943)[†]
James Earl Chaney was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.
1964Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (born 1943)[†]
Andrew Goodman was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools for black Southerners.
1964Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (born 1939)[†]
Michael Henry Schwerner was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two co-workers, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting voting registration among African Americans, most of whom had been disenfranchised in the state since 1890.
1964Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.[†]
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s. After years of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience campaigns, the civil rights movement achieved many of its legislative goals in the 1960s, during which it secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]