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Lindsay scores heckling by Buckley backers, press conf; sees Buckley-Beame 'gang-up'; s, Fordham U; tours Kings County Hosp; scores conditions; stumps Lower E Side and Harlem; Farmer s for him; Lindsay issues paper on mentally retarded children; backed by Organized Tenants Inc
US and GB weigh airlift to maintain trade if Rhodesia blocks access to sea; map
6 US soldiers killed, 3 wounded by gunfire from own side after inadvertently moving into line of fire during Quinhon operation; fighting in Quangngai and Kientuong Provs detailed; US bombers make 55th strike in S Vietnam, Tayninh Prov area; USMC repts no plan to strengthen defenses at Marble Mt and Chulai against suicide squads
Atty Gen Katzenbach assigns Fed voting examiners to 6 more counties under '65 Voting Rights Act
JOHNSON CITY, Tex., Oct. 29 -- President Johnson's daughter Luci, 18 years old, flew to the LBJ ranch tonight to win her parents' consent to be married to Patrick J. Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., her friends said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 27, 1965, covering October 30, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
Ramsey Lewis Trio
1965Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[†]
Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped form Bush in 1992. Upon the band's separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career. He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010. In 2013, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.
1965Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (born 1888)[†]
Arthur Meier Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), also taught at Harvard and was a noted historian.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]