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On Wednesday a new Vietnam truce will begin for Tet, the Lunar New Year holiday. Thus will be ushered in the Year of the Goat. The suspenseful question was whether this would be just another brief cease-fire to be followed by a resumption of heavy fighting; or whether the truce might be extended in hopes of opening the way to peace negotiations.
Testifying last week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Harvard professor Edwin O. Reischauer, the former Ambassador to Japan, observed that one of the central problems confronting the United States was that "we have too much face" to save around the world.
It would have been unthinkable even a few years ago: a massive verbal assault by the Soviet Union on West Germany and then, three days later, the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Bonn and a Soviet "satellite" state. It would have been as unthinkable politically in West Germany as in Eastern Europe.
Poor youngsters who have strong potential despite lagging grades will be given a chance to go to college under a sweeping program that will bring together the Board of Education, two Roman Catholic school systems and 39 colleges and universities in the metropolitan area.
Details on Hallmark and Kan City Downtown Redevelopment Corp projects
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 1967, covering February 5, 1967.
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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The New Vaudeville Band
1967Chris Parnell, American actor and comedian[†]
Thomas Christopher Parnell is an American actor and comedian. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Parnell found wider success during his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2006. After leaving SNL, he played the role of Dr. Leo Spaceman on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006–2013). Parnell is also a prominent voice actor known for his deep and distinctive voice. In animation, he voices the narrator on the PBS Kids series WordGirl (2007–2015), Cyril Figgis on the FX series Archer (2009–2023), Jerry Smith on Adult Swim's Rick and Morty (2013–present), and Doug on Fox's Family Guy (2019–2022). His work also extends into commercials, having voiced the Hamburger Helper mascot “Lefty”, appeared in advertisements as “America’s Dad” for Orbit Gum, and is most known for voicing "The Progressive Box" in a series of advertisements by the Progressive Corporation.
1967Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (born 1872)[†]
Leon Leonwood Bean was an American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean.
1967Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.[†]
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his death in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese socialism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]