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In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]
1967Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment[†]
Richard Donald Marles is an Australian politician and lawyer serving as the 19th and current deputy prime minister of Australia and the minister for Defence since May 2022. He has been the deputy leader of the Labor Party since 2019, and has served as a member of Parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Corio since 2007.
1967Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia[†]
Mark McGowan is an Australian former politician and naval officer who served as the 30th premier of Western Australia from 2017 until his retirement in 2023. He was the leader of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2012 to 2023 and a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Rockingham from 1996 to 2023.
1967Tom Simpson, English cyclist (born 1937)[†]
Thomas Simpson was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Gov Kerner signs bill appropriating funds to acquire site
Columbia U gets controlling interest in new cigarette filter invented by R L Strickman; univ pres Kirk and Dean Merritt to announce acquisition and invention as 'development which promises to benefit mankind by cutting health hazard of smoking'; filter is tasteless white crystalline synthetic that purportedly changes chem composition of smoke and makes it harmless; Strickman claims it is 70% more effective than conventional filters and does not change flavor of cigarette; tobacco cos voice interest; Strickman illus
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Rev Dr N Wright Jr says only Negroes will be admitted as delegates; Powell, Repr Diggs and F B McKissick hon co-chmn
Bands of Negroes smash windows, loot stores and stone police; violence believed to have stemmed from arrest of Negro cab driver on charge of assaulting police; disorders center around 4th Pet station house
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., July 12--Pakistan submitted to the General Assembly today a draft resolution demanding that Israel immediately rescind her actions for unification of Jerusalem and not take any new actions. The draft asks the Security Council to insure that the resolution is carried out.
Mercouri deprived of citizenship, will have her property confiscated; 7 other Greek expatriates, including G C Vournas and N G Nikolaidis, lose citizenship; Patakos comments; Mercouri learns of action from news broadcast
McNamara sees no need for reserve call-up to meet quota for further troop build-up in Vietnam
Cabinet approves decree to be issued July 31 giving workers share in profits and ownership of indus; Pres de Gaulle, who has long advocated policy, holds clinging to wages alone perpetuates 'class struggle'; opposition of Finance Min Debre, unions and employers to profit-sharing noted; program would be compulsory for enterprises of 'certain size,' optional for smaller cos; amt of earnings to be shared not revealed
China charges 4 US jets intruded into Chinese airspace and fired 2 missiles at frontier guards, injuring 4 and damaging house; Pentagon says it has no information but looks into matter; map
Sens of both pol parties accuse Adm of being so bogged down in bureaucracy it lags in getting food quickly to hungry; Freeman clashes with Sen Javits on issue; illus
Sec Gardner recommends cigarette mfrs be forced to give consumers stronger, more specific warnings on health hazards, rept to Cong; says warnings on pkgs should be strengthened, that warnings should be mandatory in all cigarette ads and that pkgs should offer data on tar and nicotine content; backs FTC proposals, augments them with health hazard data accumulated during past 3 1/2 yrs; some data detailed