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In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]
DeSalvo found guilty, gets life term; Bailey to appeal; holds state laws on criminal insanity archaic
Guards occupy Peking police hq; tens of thousands of people, many unwelcome workers from other major cities, crowd Peking; leaders seek to get workers back to jobs; curb sightseeing; press charges anti-Maoists with bribing workers to oppose Mao; cite instances
Seeks space in planned state office bldg, Harlem
ct reserves decision on plea for full hearing on suit
US troops kill 7 Vietcong in Cedar Falls Operation
Consol Edison, at PSC hearing on its rate rise, seeks to discredit city-hired expert A H Hirsch by citing PSC '55 statement querying validity of Hirsch testimony in NY Telephone Ct rate case
Controller Procaccino makes preliminary rept on affiliation pacts between Fordham and Misericordia, City (Elmhurst) and Mt Sinai, and Queens Gen and LI Jewish Hosps; charges 'morass of mismgter ' that shortchanges patients and taxpayers; says loss to city is 'incalculable'; says Hosps Dept 'through ignorance or abdication of responsibility just doesn't know what is going on'; says Lindsay does nothing to correct abuses, though they were noted in rept last spring; details charges, including mismgt, misplacement, misuse and loss of equipment; waste, larceny; inadequate patient care; supplementation of payrolls in violation of pacts; conflicts of interests resulting from persons being on 2 payrolls; diversion of funds to items not properly expendable under program; some hosps comment; Lindsay backs affiliation program but reiterates demand for greater pub accountability; says abuses could have been corrected if Controller held thorough audits, '63-65
strikers vote to accept Wolf proposal for fact-finding on wages; end strike; Haber says talks on other issues to continue, fact-finding will be applied to these if they are not resolved in 1 wk; group of welfare clients, allegedly unable to get emergency aid, demonstrates, Bklyn; union repts incidents in which clients failed to get aid; dept repts no further vandalism
liberals' move defeated, 61-37, despite friendly parliamentary interpretation by Humphrey that Sen can, if it wishes, change Rule 22 by simple majority; Mansfield, Dirksen protest that such a move would have effect of abolishing rule; complex parliamentary maneuvering described; defeat came on McGivern motion to table Dirksen's point of order against McGivern's motion to limit debate on his proposal for 3/5 majority to 2 hrs
enemy leaders appear to have rejected S Vietnam offer to negotiate; Hanoi radio interprets offer as rejection of proposal for 7-day truce; NLF ridicules offer, says it will observe 7-day truce
Justice Dept files 2 petitions asking FCC to postpone ITT merger now set for Jan 20 and to reopen case; charges FCC violates law under which it operates by holding only brief hearing; charges it did not study 'crucial facts'; says dept's still incomplete probe shows ITT seems to expect large cash flow from ABC, contrary to FCC theory that principal reason for merger is ABC need for capital; queries ITT assurance it will not engage in anticompetitive behavior; ITT, ABC and FCC silent
Mr and Mrs S R Currier missing on PR-VI flight in chartered craft piloted by J D Watson; map