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7 licensed casino operators indicted, Las Vegas, for 'skimming' profits to avoid paying Fed income taxes; 3 also indicted for aiding in making false return; Gov Laxalt comments
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Gov Johnson orders Natl Guardsmen to take over campus after request from Mayor Thompson; earlier Negro student C Jackson and another Negro B Brown were wounded by police after 100 Negroes rushed police barricade and injured hwy patrol official; illus
Walker scraped again, by 2d USSR destroyer; damage slight; ship illus; map; US protests sharply; Moscow radio reptdly blames US 'provocative maneuvers'; US officials see deliberate harassment, perhaps because maneuvers are few hundred mi off USSR; doubt Vietnam war link; USSR repr Y N Chernyakov, Washington, denies deliberate harassment; Repr Ford, Sen Dirksen demand US respond
Comr Fraiman charges Reichhold Chems had metered Bklyn water bills understated by over $40,000 in 4 yrs and apparently bribed city officials, rept to Lindsay; repts 3 co officials invoked 5th Amendment and refused to answer queries on transactions with city employes; sends data to Kings County Dist Atty
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 10, 1967, covering May 12, 1967.
The Monkees
The Mamas & The Papas
The Lovin' Spoonful
Ed Ames
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1967Bill Shorten, Australian politician[†]
William Richard Shorten is an Australian former politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. He also served as a cabinet minister in the Gillard (2011–2013), Rudd (2013) and Albanese governments (2022–2025).
1967John Masefield, English poet and author (born 1878)[†]
John Edward Masefield was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever". Shortly after his death his house burned down and was later replaced by a Cheshire Home named after him.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]