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BLE stages slowdown on LIRR during evening rush to protest faulty headlights; thousands of commuters delayed; rr charges union seeks to 'blackjack' co into providing better pact than natl contract
H H Fowler Sec
steps outside craft for 10 min; illus
D'Angelo repts reservoirs at only 38.1% of capacity, far below normal for date; sees summer conservation program needed unless rainfall increases by June; dry spell began July '61, now longest on record; consumption continues at 1.2 billion gals a day
Pres Johnson rejects Wallace's bid for 'Fed civilian forces' to protect Selma-Montgomery marchers, White House news conf statement; reads lr from Gov stating 6,171 men, 489 vehicles and 15 buses and supporting units would be needed to provide maximum safety and claiming this is beyond state's means; Johnson says Wallace could mobilize state's Natl Guard and that if Gov refused he might do it himself; cites ct order for protection for marchers; statement text
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 17, 1965, covering March 19, 1965.
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The Beatles
The Righteous Brothers
The Supremes
1965The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.[†]
The Georgiana was a brig-rigged, iron hulled, propeller steamer belonging to the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Reputedly intended to become the "most powerful" cruiser in the Confederate fleet once her guns were mounted, she was never used in battle. On her maiden voyage from Scotland, where she was built, she encountered Union Navy ships engaged in a blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, and was heavily damaged before being scuttled by her captain. The wreck was discovered in 1965 and lies in the shallow waters of Charleston's harbor.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]