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Rockefeller says he told Goldwater that Conservatives pose major block to NYS Repub unity and urged him to use his influence with his followers in Conservative party to assure all-out support for regular Repub ticket and to put an end to splinter pol, press conf, Hershey, Pa, Repub unity conf
gang frees C F Wilson, serving sentence, from Winson Green Prison near Birmingham
Legal aides of Sen leaders, with Katzenbach and Cox, draft compromise; Dirksen, with Mansfield as co-sponsor, offers compromise legis as substitute for amendment to foreign old bill; proposal directs cts to stay any redisricting order so that legis elections can be hold in Nov '64 and Nov '65, and to grant stays to give state's Legislature or its 'people by const amendment' a reasonable chance to reapportion; stays would be denied only in 'highly unusual circumstances'; Mansfield unhappy about compromise but accepts 'realities'; Dirksen pleased; Justice Dept officials held satisfied that Cong implicitly goes on record as supporting Ct's decision
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Goldwater says he will consult Eisenhower on apptmt of Sec if elected, s, Hershey, Pa
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 1964, covering August 13, 1964.
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Louis Armstrong
Barbra Streisand
Original Cast
1964Jay Buhner, American baseball player and sportscaster[â ]
Jay Campbell Buhner, nicknamed "Bone", is an American former professional baseball right fielder. He played for the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball from 1987 to 2001. Noted for his shaved head, thick goatee, and patch of pine tar on the right hip of his uniform, he is regarded as one of the most popular players in Mariners' history.
1964Debi Mazar, American actress[â ]
Debi Mazar Corcos is an American actress and television personality. She began her career with supporting roles in Goodfellas (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), Singles (1992), and Batman Forever (1995), followed by lead roles on the legal drama series Civil Wars and L.A. Law. She portrayed press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage. She starred as Maggie Amato on TV Land's Younger, and alongside her husband Gabriele Corcos in the Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin.
1964Tom Prince, American baseball player and manager[â ]
Thomas Albert Prince is an American former professional baseball player, and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1987 to 2003. Although Prince didn't produce impressive offensive statistics, he excelled defensively as a catcher which enabled him to sustain a seventeen-year playing career with several major league teams.
1964Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.[â ]
The murder of John Alan West on 7 April 1964 was the crime which led to the last death sentences being carried out in the United Kingdom. West, a 53-year-old van driver for a laundry company, was beaten and stabbed to death by Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen, who had gone to rob him at his home in Seaton, Cumberland. Both murderers were unemployed, had a history of petty crime and were arrested and charged within two days of the crime. At trial, each blamed the other, but the jury found both men guilty, and both were sentenced to death.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]