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Vietcong eases pressure on Pleime; relief column stalled after bitter fighting; regular bn of N Vietnam Army identified among foes; evacuation of wounded illus
C C Kraft Jr says rendezvous will make Gemini VI complete success 100 times as elusive as other manned flights; Schirra and Stafford each to attempt 1 docking in daylight and 1 in dark; Dr Mueller calls flight 'significant'; diagram shows orbital changes needed for docking
right-wing extremist group headed by Birch Soc member K Courtney wages pro-Buckley mail campaign from New Orleans charging Lindsay is pro-Communist; Buckley denies knowing of lrs, belittles Courtney; Lindsay says Buckley campaign is engineered by Goldwater, that radical right seeks to elect Beame; does not believe Buckley is racist but charges his campaign attracts racists; cites abuse directed against self and Negro workers; aide charges right is ts seek vengeance on Lindsay for not backing Goldwater in '64; Buckley gibes at charge, denies he is Goldwater's agent
7-state survey shows 108,000 Negroes regis under '65 voting law; pace is about 40,000 monthly but is 50% short of goal set by King and other rights leaders; leaders cite need for more Fed examiners, limited regis periods and end to stalling by some county registrars among their complaints
Vatican approves resumption of 'worker-priest' experiment; clergy may work full-time for pay and join unions
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 20, 1965, covering October 25, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
Ramsey Lewis Trio
19652 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler[†]
Charles Bernard Scaggs is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name 2 Cold Scorpio. He gained fame for his performances in professional wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Pro Wrestling Noah, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Over the course of his career, Scorpio held championships including the ECW World Tag Team Championship, ECW World Television Championship, GHC Tag Team Championship, and WCW World Tag Team Championship.
1965Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director[†]
Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards.
1965Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer[†]
Valdir Benedito is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder for Atlético Paranaense (Brazil), Atlético Mineiro (Brazil), Cruzeiro (Brazil), Internacional (Brazil) and Kashiwa Reysol (Japan).
1965Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic[†]
Claire Colebrook, is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Cecile Parrish Memorial Chair of English Literature, Monash University and was formerly the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture. She is the editor of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press and the Critical Climate Change book series at Columbia University Press.
1965Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer[†]
Dominique Herr is a Swiss former football defensive midfielder who played throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
1965Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player[†]
Derrick John Rostagno is an American former professional tennis player.
1965Rainer Strecker, German actor[†]
Rainer Strecker is a German actor. He is best known as the voice of the audiobooks of the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]