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Sen liberals to try again to change Rule 22, filibuster rule; see prospects brighter; fight to concentrate on Vice Pres Humphrey and whether he will rule for liberals, as he urged Vice Presidents to do when he was Sen; past attempts recalled
Pors and illus
J Walz survey of econ and pol situation and Confed operation as centennial yr opens; illus
Conn becomes 1st state with mandatory state-wide fluoridation; details; PHS aide comments
Fed antipoverty officials reject 12 of 14 new projects city wants to start because of cutback in OEO funds by Cong; projects would have cost $2-million; Fed aides making 'last-gap effort' to find $1-million for remaining 2 projects; projects were submitted in June '66 when OEO told city it would get $36-million for fiscal '67; city has thus far recd $21.5-million for locally developed projects of $22.1-million it asked merely to maintain status quo in present programs; other cutbacks noted
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 1966, covering January 2, 1967.
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Simon & Garfunkel
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1967Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player[†]
Jacobus Francois Pienaar is a retired South African rugby union player. He played flanker for South Africa from 1993 until 1996, winning 29 international caps, all of them as captain. He is best known for leading South Africa to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. After being dropped from the Springbok team in 1996, Pienaar went on to a career with English club Saracens.
1967Tia Carrere, American actress[†]
Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
1967Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík[†]
Jón Gnarr is an Icelandic actor, comedian, and politician who served as the Mayor of Reykjavík from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a member of the Althing for Viðreisn, elected in the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election.
1967Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.[†]
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]