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Izvestia pub photos and ints to support charges; says confiscated notebooks contain entries made 'every 3-5 mins'; asserts 4 notebooks contain instructions from Pentagon, list of objectives along Trans-Siberian Ry; US Embassy advises Foreign Min that Oct 6 note is 'unsatisfactory' because it neglects US charge of violation of diplomatic immunity
Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze said yesterday that he did not think the Brooklyn Navy Yard was “doomed.”
UAR holds Tshombe hostage for sealing off of Leopoldville embassy; Liberian Pres Tubman reptdly begins mediation; UAR ties with Congo suspended; African delegations denounce moves against UAR and Algerian Embassies, wire to Kasavubu; Tshombe protests to delegates
Pres Johnson sees 130,000 new jobs created in Illinois as result of tax cut, s, Peoria; repts unemployment rate dropped from 6.4% to 4.1%, July '61-July '64, s, Springfield
65 parents arrested on 3d attempt to stage sit-in at PS 149; 1 charged with assaulting ptl, rest with loitering; arrests made on Gross orders; illus; Wagner says he was not consulted in advance; Repub Councilman Donnelly to ask City Council to denounce arrests and order probe; Kessler sees aim accomplished, urges demonstrators not to interfere with police; C E Witteck Jr, Conservative party candidate for NYS Assembly, among those arrested; supporters hand out campaign literature; another flyer assails Dems
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 1964, covering October 8, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Dean Martin
Peter| Paul & Mary
The Beach Boys
1964Jakob Arjouni, German author (died 2013)[†]
Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.
1964Ian Hart, English actor[†]
Ian Davies, better known by his stage name Ian Hart, is an English actor. His most notable roles have been in One Summer (1983), Backbeat (1994), Land and Freedom and Nothing Personal (1995), Michael Collins (1996), Liam (2000), as Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), as Ludwig van Beethoven in Eroica (2003), My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015), as Father Beocca in The Last Kingdom (2015–2020), and as Carl in The Responder (2022).
1964CeCe Winans, American singer-songwriter[†]
Priscilla Marie Love, known professionally by her stage name as CeCe Winans, is an American gospel singer who has garnered 17 Grammy Awards, the most for any female gospel singer; 33 GMA Dove Awards, 19 Stellar Awards, 7 NAACP Image Awards, 3 Billboard Music Awards, along with many other awards and honors to her credit including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. Winans is the best-selling and most awarded female gospel singer of all time, and has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Music City Walk of Fame.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]