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Council, 28-0, approves Charter amendment to give it unrestricted power over own budget funds; Kupferman, Modugno see move 'war' against Lindsay; move seen facilitating financing of probes Council may make of Lindsay adm; Ross denial; explains
voters approve new Const, 178,426-84,219; defeat eminent-domain proposal, 140,160-116,243; defeat seen victory for civil rights, urban renewal, housing and labor groups; small towns voted against Const and for eminent-domain proposal; Const details
Wagner suggests Rockefeller provide state aid to help keep fare, s, Dem State Com; holds taking funds from TB&TA 'could not be done in time' to save fare; Rockefeller opposes direct state aid; holds fare is city problem; would support other measures
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- The Defense Minister, Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, was appointed today to a triumvirate that will rule as an executive body directly under President Sukarno.
NYS Sup Ct Justice Wahl orders he pay $575,000 to Mrs James for evading payment; denounces him, says jail sentence would do more good; says Powell is 'like a mackerel'; case revd
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 1965, covering December 15, 1965.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Barbra Streisand
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1965M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1903)[†]
Murugesu Balasundaram was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
1965Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.[†]
Project Gemini was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini was conceived in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews and 16 individual astronauts flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions during 1965 and 1966.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]