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E Ger reptd releasing many pol prisoners, mostly W Gers or W Berliners; move may be result of reptd secret E-W talks; ex-prisoner repts E Ger holds 6,000-8,000 on charges
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basement fire forces evacuation of 5,500; store doses for day; illus; damage slight; pres Gimbel comments
Keating says he has recd pledges of support from some Dem officeholders, party leaders and other notables since Kennedy announced, press conf, Oneonta; continues to develop appeal to Dems during Upstate tour; says he has not found much rank-and-file Repub opposition to his refusal to back Goldwater; stresses he la not opposing Goldwater but is merely not endorsing him; continues gibes at Kennedy
Nguyen Khanh repts council failure to agree on new head of state and new form of Govt; Buddhist pol leader lauds decision to retract Const; council members stalled on Nguyen Khanh pledge that they will return to mil duties; he reptdly has 2 rivals, both gens, for natl leadership; Tran Thien Khiem seen prime candidate
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 1964, covering August 27, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Beach Boys
Dean Martin
1964Stephan Elliott, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Stephan Elliott is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994).
1964Paul Bernardo, Canadian serial rapist and murderer[†]
Paul Kenneth Bernardo, also known as Paul Jason Teale, is a Canadian serial rapist and serial killer dubbed the Scarborough Rapist, the Schoolgirl Killer and, together with his former wife Karla Homolka, one of the Ken and Barbie Killers. He is known for initially committing a series of rapes in Scarborough, Ontario, a district of Toronto, between 1987 and 1990, before committing three murders with Homolka; among these victims was Karla's younger sister, Tammy Homolka.
1964Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (born 1895)[†]
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, appearing with him on radio, television and film as the duo Burns and Allen.
1964South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.[†]
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor was the ground forces of the Vietnamese National Army, established on 8 December 1950, representing Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War against the communist Viet Minh rebels. At the ARVN's peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted, composed of Regular Forces and the more voluntary Regional Forces and the Popular Force militias. It is estimated to have suffered 1,394,000 casualties during the Vietnam War.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]