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Gen Kouprasith Abhay repts Govt forces have freed Route 13, hold important E-W rd Route 7; map; hails victory; denies foreign troops aided in 6-day offensive; Western mil sources see tough fighting ahead to eliminate scattered guerrillas from area
Johnson gives guarded approval to appeal, press conf; says he can understand demonstrations but cites rights act purpose to provide machinery to transfer conflict from sts to cts
24 persons including 11 ex-agents, 8 accountants, 4 taxpayers and 1 atty indicted in probe of NY office; US Atty Morgenthau says agents recd $5,000-$10,000 a yr each in bribes; all returns handled since '60 by indicted agents to be revd; 24 listed
HR, 373-1, approves compromise wilderness bill to put 9.1 million acres into conservation system; 54 areas in 12 states involved; their primitive state to be preserved as rigidly as possible; Repr Pool casts only nay vote
Chinese party rejects attending any world conf or any preparatory meeting called by USSR to discuss rift, reply to USSR party June 15 conf is made by all parties, including pro-Chinese factions; claims larger following of individual Communists; sees USSR leaders 'most probably' calling conf but insists day of meeting will be 'day you step into your grave,'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 1964, covering July 31, 1964.
The Beatles
Original Cast
Louis Armstrong
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Barbra Streisand
1964Jim Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
James Steven Ignatius Corr is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter and DJ. He is a member of the Irish folk/rock band the Corrs, the other members being his three younger sisters Andrea, Sharon and Caroline.
1964Urmas Hepner, Estonian footballer and coach[†]
Urmas Hepner is an Estonian former footballer, who is currently coaching Levadia Tallinn's reserves, as well as working in the club's youth system. In 1992 Hepner was named Estonian Footballer of the Year.
1964Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (born 1923)[†]
James Travis Reeves was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. One of the earliest pioneers and practitioners of the Nashville sound, he played a central role in the sonic development of country music in the 1960s. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
1964Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.[†]
The Ranger program was a series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those images to Earth until the spacecraft were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After two reorganizations of the agencies, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]