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Walt and other top Amer officers see civilian deaths and burning of village huts by marines hampering war effort; hold pol success vital to mil victory; Lt Col Clement stresses need to win over local populations
A L Huxtable article on real estate and housing boom on SI notes lack of long-range transport study for boro
Freighter Seven Seas found adrift 100 mi off Miami, Fla, with 3 of 8-man crew killed; only survivor aboard, E Burywaise, says he saw crewman kill 1st mate and found capt dead; says he then hid in locker until USCG boarded ship; USCG searching for skiff missing from ship
Beame queries Screvane link to Lindsay, TV int; refers to Screvane statement that if he loses primary, he will decide then whether to support primary winner or run as City Fusion candidate; Screvane, Rose score statement; Beame s on city construction; O'Connor scores Screvane on ind campaign, radio int; Screvane says Central Labor Council never pledged support, radio int; notes possibility of transit strike; O'Dwyer says he has 15,000 signatures; Ryan s on police rev bd, radio int
US bombers pound Vietcong areas, destroy hundreds of bldgs and kill dozens of Vietnamese believed to be Vietcong; fly over 250 missions daily; make 3 major strikes in Mekong Delta; Cantho raid detailed; US marine units rushed to area N of Nanang after rept that Vietcong mass in Aivan Pass to strike at bridge linking Hue and Danang; US destroyer moved into area; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 4, 1965, covering August 9, 1965.
The Beatles
Herman's Hermits
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Barbra Streisand
1965Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer (died 2023)[†]
Nitin Chandrakant Desai was an Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer. He was most known for his work in Marathi and Hindi Films, World Cultural Festival 2016 at Delhi and films like, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Lagaan (2001), Devdas (2002), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). During his career spanning twenty years, he worked with directors like Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. In 2002, he turned film producer with Chandrakant Productions' Desh Devi, a devotional film on the Devi Mata of Kutch.
1965Singapore is expelled from Malaysia.[†]
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]