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Last week's portents of further escalation in Vietnam underscored the question of what response -- eventual support for negotiations, stepped up military aid to Hanoi, or active intervention -- Peking might choose.
Lindsay names 14-member task force to evaluate antipoverty program; says pub hearings will be held to sound out residents in areas where projects are under way; members include Prof Galbraith, T J Watson, D P Moynihan; list
Gemini VII astronauts will make observations of S Atlantic anomaly
tax incentives lure wealthy investors to buy feeders and breeding cattle to be raised in Midwest and West
Top W Ger mfr, Vereinigte Aluminum, acquires Chauvel Masters tubing plant, Ellenville, NY, reptdly as base to compete with major US cos
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 1, 1965, covering December 5, 1965.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1965Manish Malhotra, Indian fashion designer[†]
Manish Malhotra is an Indian fashion designer, couturier, costume stylist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and revivalist based in Mumbai, India.
1965John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the guitarist and frontman of the rock band Goo Goo Dolls, with whom he has recorded several chart-topping hits, including "Iris", "Slide", and "Name".
1965Wayne Smith, Jamaican rapper (died 2014)[†]
Wayne Smith was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician best known for his 1985 hit "Under Me Sleng Teng", which is regarded as the track which initiated the digital era of reggae.
1965Valeriy Spitsyn, Russian race walker[†]
Valeriy Anatolyevich Spitsyn is a retired male race walker from Russia.
1965Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)[†]
Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established the relationship between action potential velocity and fiber diameter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for these achievements.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]