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NYS and NYC officials conf on Rockefeller bill to consol area transportation; agree to provision establishing new revenue sources to maintain NYC's 20¢ transit fare and to allow city to subsidize fare
NBC and CBS rejected offers made in London late in '66 by reprs of Earl Russell to send camera crews to N Vietnam because they would have had to contribute funds to Russell war crimes tribunal; R Frank (NBC) and R S Salant (CBS) comment
Pravda condemns Mao leadership and urges his overthrow; says anti-Soviet campaign is aimed at goading USSR into breaking diplomatic ties; comments on 'humiliation' and 'violence' Russians in Peking have been subjected to; says more is planned; revs deterioration in ties and blames Mao; denounces calls for Russians to overthrow Kremlin leadership
American Can Co to move internatl hq from NYC to Greenwich; map
Voting starts in 4th gen election since independence; illus; violence reptd in Bihar, Mysore and Andhra states; 3 Communists reptdly slain in Andhra
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 15, 1967, covering February 16, 1967.
The Monkees
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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Soundtrack
1967Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Keith Edward Gretzky is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player who served as interim general manager of the Edmonton Oilers from January 23 to May 7, 2019. He is the brother of Wayne Gretzky, considered by many as the best player of all time, and Brent Gretzky, who also briefly played NHL hockey.
1967Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1911)[†]
Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]