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Mayor Zirpolo and Council Pres Jacks indicted for taking $110,000 in bribes to permit Colonial Pipeline Corp (Atlanta) to build pipeline and storage tanks in twp
NYC Bar Assn special com on radio, TV and adm of justice issues rept urging adoption of strict voluntary codes by press and police in reptg crime data and 'drastic' tightening of legal ethics cannons to halt flow of prejudicial publicity by attys; holds cts lack power to impose direct controls on news or police; holds only personal data not related to crime or defendant's character should be released to press; prosecutors and attys would be barred from making any comment on case at risk of suspension or disbarment; rept hails voluntary guidelines adopted by Toledo Times and Toledo Blade which rule out pub of defendant's confession, prior criminal record and ct arguments made without jury present; Judge Medina, com chmn, notes rept differs from proposals made by Amer Bar Assn in that latter recommended that police, attys and newsmen be held in contempt of ct for issuing prejudicial data; holds issue of prejudicial publicity is exaggerated; 3 com members dissent from Medina's proposal that otherwise prohibited data might be pub in cases of 'overriding pub need,' such as assassination; AP Managing Eds Assn pres Hill says com's proposals would keep news from public; ASNE statement backs statement that cts lack power to control press and police but holds proposals to curb dissemination of data to press are unduly restrictive; com members listed
ABC and ITT file formal rebuttal to dept charges with FCC; charge dept withheld notes taken at special ABC bd meeting, on file with dept for 1 yr, that bear on issue of whether ITT planned to put funds into ABC or vice versa; details
rept to White House on CIA support of non-Govt groups
Natl Farmers Orgn pres Staley repts drive to get members to sell off sows and cows to cut future output gains momentum
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 1967, covering February 24, 1967.
The Monkees
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
The Temptations
1967Brian Schmidt, Australian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
1967Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (born 1886)[†]
Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the State of Hyderabad between until 1948, when the Indian Union annexed it. He was styled as His Exalted Highness (H.E.H) the Nizam of Hyderabad, and was widely considered one of the world's wealthiest people of all time. With some estimates placing his wealth at 2% of U.S. GDP, his portrait was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937. As a semi-autonomous monarch, he had his mint, printing his currency, the Hyderabadi rupee, and had a private treasury that was said to contain £100 million in gold and silver bullion, and a further £400 million of jewels. The major source of his wealth was the Golconda mines, the only supplier of diamonds in the world at that time. Among them was the Jacob Diamond, valued at some £50 million, and used by the Nizam as a paperweight.
1967Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.[†]
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[†]