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HR rejects, 203-177, bill to raise justices' salaries by $3,000; criticism of recent rulings and justices' qualifications marked debate
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 17 -- A Federal district judge authorized Negroes today to hold a mass march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, the state capital.
Johnson sends voting rights bill and lr urging quick enactment to Cong; illus; bill gives Atty Gen power to appt Fed registrars in Ala, La, Miss, Ga, SC and Va; may also apply to certain 'pol subdivs' of other states; rules out voter qualification tests; bill was modified to permit states to remove themselves from provisions if 3-man Fed ct, DC, rules they have not discriminated against Negro voters for 10 yrs but bars states from applying to panel until 10 yrs after a Fed ct has found denial of voting rights; question of regis illiterates left to discretion of Atty Gen or Civil Rights Comm; bill also bars any state from imposing new voting laws until 3-judge panel rules on their validity; allows Negroes to pay state poll taxes to Fed examiners up to 45 days before election despite state laws to contrary; other provisions outlined; most complex part of bill seen provision for litigation in 3-judge ct; Va Gov Harrison scores bill
Van Lengen seen replacing McKeon as state chmn; backed by Wagner
parade, NYC; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 17, 1965, covering March 18, 1965.
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The Beatles
The Righteous Brothers
The Supremes
1965David Cubitt, English-Canadian actor[†]
David Cubitt is an English-born Canadian television actor.
1965Farouk of Egypt (born 1920)[†]
Farouk I was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a military coup in 1952.
1965Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.[†]
An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and space tourists.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]