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Amer Jewish Cong scores as bigoted and anti-Semitic statement by newly resigned school bd member F P Combs criticizing Mayor Falcone for apptg Jew A I Charnack to succeed him on bd instead of another Prot; Combs charges apptmt leaves most of Christian community without representation; Falcone comments
NSA officers Brown and P Werdell accuse CIA of 'trapping' coll students into roles as agents and placing them under pressure not to disclose missions abroad; press conf; hold NSA leaders were intimidated by threats ranging from character assassination to pressure on 'establishment' to reject them from 'responsible roles in Amer soc'; Brown says supervisory bd voted to suspend credentials and freeze funds of reprs at internatl student confs or on fellowships abroad pending probe of activities and source of funds; disavows further NSA assn with CIA and says NSA will help any probe of CIA's role on campuses; HR special CIA subcom, after closed hearing at which Helms testified, backs CIA; holds CIA support of NSA has been known to every natl adm since '52; Brown, Groves deny NSA will be dissolved; Brown says supervisory bd probe shows that, during some yrs since '52, 80% of NSA's budget was CIA money passed through Youth and Student Affairs, Catherwood, San Jacinto, Independence and Rabb Foundations and 'Mr R E Smith'; confirms appeal was made to Vice Pres Humphrey for help in getting financial support to free NSA from CIA dependence; says current NSA budget includes only 5-8% CIA money; confirms CIA helped get draft deferments
Comr Leary repts crimes against taxi drivers have dropped 45% since detectives were assigned as drivers and passengers; 39 drivers were victims of crimes in last 3 wks as against 71 in '66 period; taxi owners and drivers hail measures
Elec Inspection Sec: 7 civilian inspectors dismissed by Comr Lowery for refusing to waive immunity in grand jury probe of alleged payoffs; are among 12 suspended in Aug '66; 8th was dismissed in Sept; Comr Fraiman refuses to name ecos allegedly involved
US indicates backing for Latin-Amer econ integration but refuses to make long-term fiscal commitments without Cong approval; mins illus; Costa informally discusses Argentine proposal for OAS mil-controlled defense com; US, 12 other nations firmly opposed; coms approve 17 OAS Charter amendments and Punta del Este, Uruguay, as summit conf site
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 15, 1967, covering February 18, 1967.
The Monkees
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
1967Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer[†]
Roberto Baggio is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. He is the former president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation. A technically gifted creative playmaker and set piece specialist, renowned for his curling free-kicks, dribbling skills, and goalscoring, Baggio is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
1967Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler[†]
Colin Ray Jackson, is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion twice, world indoor champion once, was undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was twice Commonwealth champion. His world record of 12.91 seconds for the 110 m hurdles stood for nearly 13 years and his 60 metres hurdles world record stood for nearly 27 years.
1967J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)[†]
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]