1965Erwin Mortier, Belgian author and poet[†]
Erwin Mortier is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006).
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In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]
1965Erwin Mortier, Belgian author and poet[†]
Erwin Mortier is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006).
1965Matt Williams, American baseball player and manager[†]
Matthew Derrick Williams, nicknamed "Matt the Bat" and "the Big Marine", is an American professional baseball manager and former third baseman who is the third base coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). A right-handed batter, Williams played in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, and Arizona Diamondbacks. He managed the Washington Nationals from 2014 to 2015, and was the third base coach for the San Diego Padres from 2022 to 2023.
1965Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.[†]
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. One of two communist states in Southeast Asia, Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City.
Schlesinger book revd
What will happen should the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations in Geneva fail? What are the possible consequences should the efforts of the European Free Trade Association and the European Common Market to find a "wide European" solution be unsuccessful?
impounding of water N of Everglades Natl Pk, Fla, for flood control and irrigation purposes deprives pk itself of water; pk threatened by 4th yr of drought, most of it man-made; illus
Amen to your case for an ombudsman to protect travel consumers from being skinned by all comers. Meanwhile, in your continuing preoccupation with consumer interest, you and The New York Times are fulfilling the role admirably.
A sound return on an investment of $50,000 is being realized by Jack Dreyfus, the master of Hobeau Farm, through the performances of Choker, a 5-year-old horse. Purchased for that sum in a private transaction on Oct. 3.
In a paratroopers' camp outside Leopoldville, 14 top officers of the Congolese Army met last Wednesday evening at the house of the Army commander, 35-year-old Gen. Joseph Desire Mobutu. The next morning they sent 10 soldiers to the Leopoldville radio station with a copy of a proclamation announcing the Army's decision to end "the sterile struggle" of the politicians.
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The atomic power industry has come of age.
comment on growing installations of stereo tape machines and resulting pre-recorded stereo tape mkt
Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals and Willis Reed of the New York Knickerbockers staged a scoring battle on the Madison Square Garden court last night before 9,315 basketball fans.
Aerospace cos use 'clean-room' methods used in mfg space vehicle parts to make computer components; illus
Amish say they have no objection either to ps educ or state-controlled teachers in their own schools but some parents oppose both as 'too wordly'; schools seen facing additional pressure, '66, when new state law will require them to Join hs dist