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Min of Intergovernmental Affairs set up with functions similar to those of Fed External Affairs Dept
throngs begin to pour into NYC for meeting in Central Pk and rally outside UN; police prepare for crowd of 100,000-400,000; Mayor Lindsay urges demonstrators to dissent 'peacefully and quietly'; King, F B McKissick and S Carmichael to s at rally; US Communist party aide M Laski charges demonstration is being led by 'Trotsky revisionists'; Central Pk site illus
conf ends; action plan formally adopted; Johnson issues statement; illus with Pres Diaz; arrives, Tex, after stopover, Surinam
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further details on Atlanta s; stand repeated, Athens, Ga
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1967, covering April 15, 1967.
The Monkees
The Mamas & The Papas
The Monkees
Soundtrack
Ed Ames
1967Frankie Poullain, Scottish bass player and songwriter[†]
Francis Gilles Poullain-Patterson, better known as Frankie Poullain, is a Scottish bass player, best known for playing with The Darkness. He was raised in Milnathort, then Edinburgh, Scotland.
1967Dara Torres, American swimmer and journalist[†]
Dara Grace Torres is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games, and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won silver medals in all three events.
1967Totò, Italian comedian (born 1898)[†]
Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio, best known by his stage name Totò, or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata, was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He is commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. While best known for his funny and sometimes cynical comic characters in theatre and then many successful comedy films made from the 1940s to the 1960s, he also worked with many iconic Italian film directors in dramatic roles.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]