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Amer analysts rept S Vietnamese have just ended 1 of most successful wks of war with 605 Communists killed; 100 Vietnamese, 18 Amers killed; data on captured weapons; signs of new Vietcong confidence and strength within 20 mi of Saigon noted; 3 attacks cited
rebels reptdly hold northern and central parts of capital; maps; 3-man junta (Col Bartolene Benoit, Col Casado Saladin, Capt Santana Carasco) named nominal Govt; Wessin y Wessin forces reptdly hold only parts of city; planes strafe rebel areas; Bosch terms his backers 'constitutionalists,' not rebels
conf of League reprs weighs proposal that Bourguiba be banned from League confs and that special meeting be called to consider Tunisia's ouster
barristers will be permitted to wear short wigs when arguing cases in Lords, but Queen's Counsel will still wear full-bottomed wig when hearing decision announced; short and full-bottomed wigs illus
Educ Bd sets teacher training in human relations to teach classes about minority group contributions to Amer life
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 28, 1965, covering April 29, 1965.
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Herman's Hermits
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The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
1965Michel Bussi, French geographer, author, and academic[†]
Michel Bussi is a French author, known for writing thriller novels, and a political analyst and Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen, where he leads a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment in the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he is a specialist in electoral geography.
1965Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author (died 2017)[†]
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]