HUGE TRADE HALL BURNS IN CHICAGO; McCormick Place Ravaged by Fire Total Damage Is Put at $110-Million Fire Ruins McCormick Place, Chicago's Huge Trade Center
Tours scene of McCormick Place fire
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Tours scene of McCormick Place fire
B-52s bomb suspected enemy positions
Lindsay and Rockefeller agree to have Madigan-Hyland Inc study bldg Lower Manhattan Expressway as tunnel to run 60 ft below st level; hwy would run under 5 subway lines to link Holland Tunnel with Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges; Lindsay says tunnel would cause no mass dislocations; NYS Pub Works Dept says study seeks to find if tunnel can be accepted as part of interstate hwy system with Fed Govt paying 90% of cost; Regional Plan Assn diagram of route; map
Mrs Wallace sworn in as 1st woman Gov; pledges adm will be continuation of husband's; says she will carry on his fight against integration and 'Fed bureaucracy' while he seeks Pres; says principles of self-govt will not be suppressed by force; husband also s; those present at inauguration include L Perez, Repr Rarick, ex-Govs Barnett and Burns, Gov Johnson
US Sup Ct, 5-4, rules attys cannot be disbarred for refusing to testify, on grounds of self-incrimination, about professional conduct, appeal of S Spevack, NYS atty disbarred after refusing to testify or produce records in probe of alleged 'ambulance chasing,'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1967, covering January 17, 1967.
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1967Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Richard Willis Hawley is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. After his first band Treebound Story broke up, Hawley found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990s. He played with Pulp, led by his friend Jarvis Cocker, as a touring musician for a short time. As a solo musician, Hawley has released eight studio albums. He has been nominated for a Mercury prize twice and once for a Brit Award. He has collaborated with Lisa Marie Presley, Shakespears Sister, Arctic Monkeys, Manic Street Preachers, Elbow, Duane Eddy and Paul Weller.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]