Antipoverty Hearing: Barbs Fly in a Capital Caucus Room, Stinging Senators and Witnesses Alike
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new Govt sworn in; imposes Pres rule on Rajasthan state; Pres Radhakrishnan, by proclamation, suspends state assembly; Chavan says move was taken after state Cong party leader Sukhadia said he did not want responsibility of forming Govt; disorders revd; S Chandrasekhar named Health Min, Dr T Sen Educ Min, V K R V Rao Transport Min; Chavan retained as Home Min, Chagla as External Affairs Min, Singh as Defense Min, Mehta as Planning Min; Desai is Deputy Prime Min and Finance Min, J Ram Food Min
WASHINGTON, March 13-- Administration spokesmen went out of their way today to emphasize what they said was the routine nature of President Johnson's meeting with his advisers on Vietnam next week in Guam.
Govt says recount in Corsica gives it 1-seat majority with 244 seats; Mitterrand says Leftist candidate Zuccarelli will contest result, news conf, Corsica; Min Bourges, as Cabinet spokesman, declares majority but blames Gaullist complacency after 1st vote for runoff result; final breakdown by party; Communists hail victory
Nixon authorizes forming Nixon for Pres Com, hq in Washington; com headed by Calif Repub ex-chmn Parkinson; prime movers are Repubs prominent in Eisenhower Adm, including M Stans, F Seaton, J D Lodge; R C Walker is exec dir; Parkinson says com's main aim is to line up support for Nixon and convince him that he has enough delegates to run
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1967, covering March 14, 1967.
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The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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1967The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.[†]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]