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In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]
1967Tawera Nikau, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Tawera Nuieia Nikau is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A New Zealand international representative forward, he played club football at a number of different clubs in New Zealand, England and Australia during his career, including the Melbourne Storm's victory in the 1999 NRL season Grand Final.
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Pres Johnson says nation 'can, must and will continue' to afford both Vietnam war and fight for better life in US, press conf at his Tex ranch; says this will be theme of his proposals to Cong; says 'highly speculative' estimate of fiscal '68 budget is that it will total $135-140-billion with higher deficit than the $1.8-billion estimated in Jan '66 for fiscal '67
Aircraft indus and gen econ seen benefiting from Boeing Co's winning airframe design competition for supersonic liner
Pres-elect Costa e Silva arrives, Rome, from Brussels
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NYS Appellate Div reverses Sup Ct, refuses to rule unconst '65 state law under which texts are lent to private and parochial school pupils, suit by E Greenbush School Bd and ACLU; 3 justices hold bd had no right to bring suit; appeal planned
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SIC, after 1 1/2-yr study of NYS jails, urges end to continual arrests of chronic alcoholics; urges civil commitment with med and rehabilitative services
8 paintings valued at over $5-million, including 3 Rembrandts and 3 Rubenses, stolen from Dulwich Coll Art Gallery, London, largest art theft of modern times; paintings reptd uninsured; Royal Arts Acad sec H Brooke calls theft 'major disaster'; anon phone caller asks $280,000 for paintings, threatens to burn them; thieves broke through unused side door, which is believed not connected to burglar-alarm system
NY Times asst managing ed H E Salisbury continues reptg on N Vietnam from Hanoi and later from Hong Kong
Loses competition with Boeing to mfr US supersonic airliner airframe
Natl Audubon Soc exec vp Callison opposes Gt Swamp as site, lr
Vietnam: H E Salisbury continues series on N Vietnam, written from Hanoi