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Izvestia charges Chinese hamper and endanger USSR planes flying personnel to N Vietnam when they stop to refuel in Peking; incidents include harrassment by Red Guards shouting anti-Soviet slogans; Tass repts emergency evacuation of dependents of USSR personnel in Peking prepared; embassy staff under harassment
Rockefeller panel gets NYS Health Dept confidential rept describing situation at various munic hosps: Bellevue reptd 'dying or dead inst'; Kings County prenatal patients get 'inadequate' care; Fordham operating rooms have 'contamination hazards'; Harlem has acute supply shortages; other details
Johnson repts US will send immediately 2-million tons worth $150-million, asks approval to send 3-million more tons if other nations will 'appropriately' match aid, special message to Cong; seeks Cong approval, although he has power to send aid, because of nature and scope of issue; puts cost of meeting 10-million-ton '67 deficit at $725-million; notes USSR, Canadian, Australian aid
Romney asks for income tax for 3d time, budget message; asks flat 2 1/2% on personal incomes; tells opposition that state const bars graduated tax; asks 3¢ rise in 7¢ tax on pack of cigarettes, 5% corp income tax and 8% income tax on financial insts
Johnson says he is unaware of any 'serious efforts' by N Vietnam to halt fighting and move towards peace talks, news conf; says he would order bombing halted if N Vietnam took 'just almost any step' to justify it; repeats Adm willingness to meet at almost any level for talks; would make concessions but insists on 'ltd and decent terms'; sidesteps query on willingness to meet with Ho Chi Minh; declines to speculate on likely impact of events in China
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 1967, covering February 3, 1967.
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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The New Vaudeville Band
1967Tim Flowers, English footballer and coach[†]
Timothy David Flowers is an English football manager and former player who manages Alvechurch.
1967Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach[†]
Mika-Matti Petteri "Mixu" Paatelainen is a Finnish former professional football player and manager who is currently serving as the sporting director of Scottish club The Spartans. He scored 18 goals in 70 appearances for the Finnish national team, which makes him Finland's all time thirteenth most capped player and fifth top goalscorer. He is the eldest of three brothers, all of whom have played professional football. Their father Matti was also a Finnish international.
1967Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (born 1929)[†]
Robert George "Joe" Meek was an English record producer and songwriter considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, being one of the first to develop ideas such as the recording studio as an instrument, and becoming one of the first producers to be recognised for his individual identity as an artist. Meek pioneered space age and experimental pop music, and assisted in the development of recording practices like overdubbing, sampling and reverberation.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]