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diplomatic sources rept Greece concedes Turkish right to foothold in Cyprus; Turkey reptdly seeks at least mil base, with provision for Turkish Cypriotes; Erin leaves for Geneva to press Turkish claims under '59 and '60 pacts within framework of Acheson proposals; details; map
Adm accepts Ribicoff proposal for beneficiaries to choose either flat $7-a-mo rise in benefits or $2-a-mo rise plus Govt-operated health ins program
NYS Sup Ct sets $30,232,494 as price NYC should pay for co and subsidiary Surface Transit Inc, acquired by condemnation in '62; award itemized; co had asked $112,057,038; must pay $19.5 million claims out of award
US makes pub excerpts from official orders to USN ships carrying out attack on N Vietnam containing phrase 'conventional ordnance only,' reply to Goldwater; orders reptdly were specifically based on instructions from Washington; Johnson reptdly feels Goldwater statement is irresponsible and confused, is certain he did not use language Goldwater attributed to him; Goldwater, in int with AP newsman, charges Johnson and McNamara with imprecise language rather than deliberate intent to permit nuclear weapons; Miller, int at same time, says Johnson authorized 'complete full retaliation'; Goldwater aide later says Goldwater refers specifically to McNamara Aug 5 news conf where he said comdrs were ordered to use 'whatever force is necessary,'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 1964, covering August 15, 1964.
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Louis Armstrong
Barbra Streisand
Original Cast
1964Jane Ellison, English lawyer and politician[†]
Jane Elizabeth Ellison is a British United Nations official and former politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she was first elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Battersea. On 7 May 2015, she was re-elected with an increased margin of 3.4%. She lost the seat to Marsha de Cordova of the Labour Party at the 2017 snap general election. In November 2017 she joined the senior leadership team of the World Health Organization serving until November 2022.
1964Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Gates Foundation[†]
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she was educated at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Duke University, and Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Shortly after joining Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-CEO Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994. They have three children together. The couple divorced in 2021.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]