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Urges US take advantage of growing natl independence within Communist world to press for better East-West relations, Sen Foreign Relations Com
Dodd Case: Ethics Com rejects Dodd's claim that it lacks jurisdiction to probe his financial activities; orders pub hearings; Stennis, Bennett comment
Lindsay to include in '6:7-68 capital budget $25-million to improve deteriorating areas in Harlem, S Bronx and Central Bklyn in effort to spur Cong to release $100-million in urban renewal funds to city under Fed Model Cities program
McDonough elected successor in 12 1/2-2 1/2 vote along regular-Reformer lines; backs ltd reform of Buckley policies; says he will try to restore party unity; pledges to meet regularly with Reform leaders; Badillo, Reprs Bingham and Scheuer comment
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 25, 1967, covering January 31, 1967.
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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The New Vaudeville Band
1967Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer[†]
Michael John Burkett, known professionally as Fat Mike, is an American musician and producer. He was the bassist and lead vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX and the cofounder and bassist of the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Burkett started out with his first band False Alarm in 1982. He and NOFX rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin were the only band members who remained constant in the band's lineup throughout its existence. Burkett is the owner and founder of Fat Wreck Chords.
1967Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (born 1908)[†]
Thomas Edward Tolan, nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints. He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220-yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships. In his full career as a sprinter, Tolan won 300 races and lost only 7.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]