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US Sup Ct rules unconst major secs of La Communist Control Act under which officials J A Dombrowski, B E Smith, B Waltzer were arrested, '63, for not registering as members of Communist front; holds La authorities used law to harass officials who were active in civil rights movement; ruling bars state from trying trio
strike averted for 4 mos as USWA accepts 11.5¢-an-hr raise effective May 1; money to he placed in escrow while contract talks continue; effective Aug I both sides will have right to serve 30-day notice of terminating pact; Simkin credited with finding formula; US Steel finance com chmn Tyson scores Adm wage-price guidelines
debate, Washington, sharpens: Morse warns Johnson his policy will make him 'most discredited Pres' in US history; calls for Rusk and McNamara removal; Sen R Long backs adm policies, s, US C of C; Johnson, through Ball, squelches anti-Adm s slated for Sen, has sent Adm officials to dissuade other critics from making Cong ss; relatively muted Sen criticism linked to his pressure and other factors
Indian Army alerted as new fighting erupts; Min Chavan holds Pakistan broke brief lull with massive attack on border post at Biar Bet
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 21, 1965, covering April 27, 1965.
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Herman's Hermits
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Roger Miller
The Rolling Stones
1965Anna Chancellor, English actress[†]
Anna Theodora Chancellor is an English actress who has appeared widely on TV, film and in the theatre. She received a nomination for BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lix Storm in The Hour (2011–2012), and has twice been nominated for Olivier Awards, in 1997 for her performances in Stanley at the National Theatre, and again in 2014 for Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre. She was also nominated for an award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2007 and for one at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 2013.
1965Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (born 1908)[†]
Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]