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In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]
1967Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (born 1874)[†]
Mary Garden was a Scottish-American operatic lyric soprano, then mezzo-soprano, with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she spent the last 30 years of her life and died.
1967Reginald Punnett, British scientist (born 1875)[†]
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. His Mendelism (1905) is sometimes said to have been the first textbook on genetics; it was probably the first popular science book to introduce genetics to the public.
1967Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer (born 1911)[†]
Jack Leon Ruby was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
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Premier Castro hints he will gradually end personal rule, s and mil parade, Havana, on 8th anniv of rise to power; says others will share 'collective work' and 'orientation task,' including ss and rallies; also says costly large rallies and mil revs will be curbed; recent repts of opposition to Castro personality cult noted
US jets down 7 MIGs; bomb other targets in various areas; N Vietnamese press agency repts 2 US planes downed during raids, map
Gov N A Rockefeller holds 30 yrs of 'ever-expanding' Fed programs prove Fed authority 'stands too distant from local conditions to allow efficient use of Fed funds by formulas conceived in Washington, inaugural s; holds multiplication of 'inadequately financed Fed programs has aroused hopes, only to produce disappointments'; says he is not disparaging purposes that inspire programs; says states 'cannot nor should they go it alone,'
6 labor leaders freed after 13,000 workers stage sitdown strike, Madrid; had been on hunger strike since Dec 31 arrest for demonstrating with 3,000 Standard Electrica workers demanding full employment and production bonuses; move seen indicating growth in power of technically illegal workers' comms and widening struggle between Govt and comms for control of labor; at least 12 labor leaders await trial, Barcelona, for role in planned protest meeting by Sabadell labor groups
Comr Kearing dismisses 12 NYC Sanitation workers who refused to answer queries about alleged bribery by private carters at city-owned marine transfer station; list; grand jury to probe possible corruption at 25 other city-owned sites; Kearing notes repts of payoffs at 2 sites; recent Fed ct refusal to reinstate 16 of 18 men suspended in case and bar probe because city used wiretapping, suit by Sanitationmen's Assn, noted
US troops illus advancing on suspected Vietcong stronghold
NYS studies feasibility of bldg office bldg on site
liberal Dem Reprs seen edging toward view that Powell should be disciplined but not deprived of seat; denial of his chmnship of HR Educ and Labor Com seen form of discipline most likely; Thompson says he will not vote to vacate seat; says Powell's conduct was issue in his election campaign and his constituents re-elected him; holds he would be re-elected in special election if Cong excluded him; view backed by O'Hara
US authorities break up heavily armed, uniformed group of some 100-150 Cuban exiles and Amers, near Marathon, Fla, reptdly planning to invade Haiti; seize Large arms cache; 21 arrested; rest to be taken from area
Reagan sworn in as Gov on TV at 12:16 AM; illus; aides deny hr was chosen because of his belief in astrology; other possible motives noted; he later urges Legis cooperation in reorgn of exec branch, s to joint Legis session
sworn in at pub ceremony; illus; outlines pol philosophy, s
H Taubman survey on challenge by W Coast to East's longtime dominance in arts