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repts Makarios agrees to let Turkish ship dock at Famagusta with supplies for Kokkina, result of confs with Plaza Lasso and Thimayya; Thimayya confs with Kutchuk
PORS AND ILLUS
boycott is 100% effective at PS 112 in Bensonhurst sec of Bklyn although school is not involved in integration plan; principal A C Pinta 'stunned'; doubts school would ever be integrated because it is so out of way; says it will have only 2 Negro pupils this yr, both from neighborhood; views of some pickets noted; school parents assn backed boycott almost unanimously
UAR and Saudi Arabia announce full accord on ending mil dispute, communique, Alexandria, on Nasser-Faisal talks; Faisal says accord does not now involve Saudi recognition of repub regime; Ben Bella and Arif acted as intermediaries; map
Dem and Repub liberals near final accord on compromise that expresses as sense of Cong that when any apportionment action is before cts, states should have 'reasonable time' (rather than 'adequate time') to meet Const requirements, and that 'in event' that Const amendment on apportionment is 'duly submitted' to states for ratification, such fact shall be taken into consideration by cts; compromise worked out by Sen Metcalf; accepted by McCarthy and Douglas
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1964, covering September 15, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Dean Martin
The Beach Boys
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
1964Robert Fico, Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia[†]
Robert Fico is a Slovak politician who has served as the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023. He previously served as prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He founded the left-wing political party Direction – Social Democracy in 1999 and has led the party since. Fico holds a record as the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served for over 11 years. First elected to parliament in 1992, he was appointed the following year to the Czechoslovak delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly to the Council of Europe. Following his party's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, he formed his first Cabinet. His political positions have been described as populist, left-wing and conservative.
1964Steve Watkin, Welsh cricketer[†]
Steven Llewellyn Watkin is a former Welsh cricketer who played for Glamorgan County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. A reliable seam bowler who never suffered serious injury despite several lesser niggles, he played three Test matches in 1991 and 1993, and four One Day Internationals in 1993 and 1994. He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1994, the only one of that year's five who was not Australian.
1964Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist and songwriter[†]
Paul Caiafa, known professionally as Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, is an American guitarist best known for his material with the horror punk band the Misfits and his own band eponymously named Doyle.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]