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US planes cut rr links to China and Thainguyen indus complex; hit other targets; 1 downed; map
of erratic patterns of racial integration in South
Jewish and Arab demonstrations held; illus
Chichester arrives, Plymouth; illus; completed 14,759-mi homeward trip from Sydney, Australia, in 119 days; around world trip covered 28,500 mi and took 226 days; map; Chichester congratulated by Prime Min Wilson and Queen Elizabeth; backers donated estimated $92,000 for bldg and outfitting ketch Gypsy Moth IV; London Sunday Times and Times of London paid him $25,000 for exclusive dispatches
convocation opens; Thant, in televised s from NYC, stresses importance of complying with internatl obligations; Pope's message read by Cardinal Journet; Hutchins announces USSR decision to boycott conf; Goldberg absence linked to Johnson Adm feeling conf would provide platform for attacking US policy in Vietnam; Amb Tubby, US repr to UN hq in Geneva, sends deputy C H Mace; Rev Dr Blake s
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1967, covering May 29, 1967.
The Monkees
Aretha Franklin
Bill Cosby
The Mamas & The Papas
Soundtrack
1967Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and a co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis. After leaving Oasis, he formed Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Gallagher is one of the most successful songwriters in British music history, as the writer of eight UK number-one singles and co-writer of a further number one, as well as the sole or primary writer of ten UK number-one studio albums. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential songwriters in the history of British rock music, cited by numerous major subsequent artists as an influence.
1967Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Michael John Keane is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. Undrafted, Keane played over 1,100 games in the National Hockey League from 1988 until 2004. He then played five seasons for his hometown Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League until he retired in 2010. Keane is a three-time Stanley Cup champion, having won with the Montreal Canadiens in 1993, Colorado Avalanche in 1996, and the Dallas Stars in 1999. He is one of only 11 players in NHL history to win the Cup with three or more different teams. On September 3, 2013, the Winnipeg Jets announced the hiring of Keane as Assistant of Player Development.
1967Steven Levitt, American economist, author, and academic[†]
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime, and is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago as well as the Faculty Director and co-founder of the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago which incubates the Data Science for Everyone coalition. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]