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Article on growing use of marijuana among NYC youths; use frequently leads to heroin addiction; several case histories
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To start $4.5-million program to spur humanities studies; plans to cut time to get PhD degree and increase number of univ scholars in field; program to include Post-Doctoral Humanistic Studies Center admitting 10 to 20 fellows yrly; annual cost set at $500,000; univ pres M S Eisenhower hails plan
Controller Levitt urges forming bipartisan joint legis com to forge plan to end 'dangers' of Rockefeller Adm fiscal policies
" Oh, Harry," the college girl said softly, tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry, Harry, to be doing this to you."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 1964, covering January 4, 1965.
Elvis Presley
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack
The Supremes
1965Guy Forget, French tennis player[†]
Guy Forget is a French tennis administrator and retired professional player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain.
1965Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-English dancer, choreographer, and director[†]
Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British author, dancer, choreographer, conductor, theatre director, and former drag queen in the United Kingdom. He is also a patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society.
1965Julia Ormond, English actress and producer[†]
Julia Karin Ormond is an English film and television actress. She rose to prominence by appearing in The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), First Knight (1995), Sabrina (1995), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), and The Barber of Siberia (1998). She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010). She is also known for her role in The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) as a main antagonist.
1965T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)[†]
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.
1965Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 crashes on approach to Alma-Ata Airport, killing 64 people.[†]
Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Alma-Ata via Omsk, Soviet Union, that crashed in low visibility conditions on 4 January 1965, killing 64 of the 103 people on board.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]