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March 19, 1967

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Headlines from March 19, 1967

SIKES' 70 FOR 206 LEADS BY 3 SHOTS IN RAW WEATHER; Hometown Pro Is 2 Under Par in Jacksonville Golf --Brewer Runner-Up Sikes Bundles Up SIKES' 70 FOR 206 LEADS BY 3 SHOTS 2 Pars and Birdies Help Verwey Has 75 for 216

By Lincoln A. Werden Special To the New York Times

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 18--On a day on which a coffee break, would have been comforting, Dan Sikes continued to set the pace in the $100,000 Greater Jacksonville open golf tournament. Sikes scored a third-round, two-under-par 70 for a 54-hole aggregate of 206 as the cold and a 25 mile-anhour wind contributed, as he said, to making conditions "miserable."

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Is 'MacBird' Pro-American?; Is 'MacBird' Pro-American?

By Peter Brook, Co-Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of (MARAT/SADE.)

WALTER KERR describes "MacBird" as a "desperate" vaudeville and, were I the author, I would take this as a great compliment. Barbara Garson has devised a play that is the nearest I have seen to the Elizabethan theater, where the audience is on easy, intimate terms with the actors and common references are exchanged through a nod or a hint.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1967, covering March 19, 1967.

  1. 1
    Album cover for More Of The Monkees by The Monkees

    More Of The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for Between The Buttons by The Rolling Stones

    Between The Buttons

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for The Monkees by The Monkees

    The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    24
  4. 4
    Album cover for Doctor Zhivago by Soundtrack

    Doctor Zhivago

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    53
  5. 5
    Album cover for SRO by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    SRO

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    15

Notable Births

1967Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee[†]

Sandra Frey is a Swiss retired ice hockey player and referee. After playing for the Swiss national team, she became the first female referee to work in the men's Swiss League. She later became the first woman to referee a gold-medal game at the IIHF Women's World Championship, doing so in 1992, 1994, and 1997. She retired from on-ice officiating after the 1998 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey tournament, then worked as a referee supervisor for the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

1967Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player[†]

Vladimir Nikolaevich Konstantinov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career, from 1991 to 1997 with the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, he had played for Soviet club CSKA Moscow. His career was ended in a limousine crash six days after the Red Wings' 1997 Stanley Cup victory.

Historical Context for March 19, 1967

In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]