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HR com tentatively agrees to raise Soc Security tax rates beyond Adm proposal to allow for under-estimates of Medicare costs
US Defense Dept planners say Adm will ask S Vietnam to increase by 30% size of its Popular Forces; about 50,000 men will be added; other S Vietnamese troops figures noted
Sen and HR expected to defer action on bill extending life and lending authority of Export-Import Bank pending thorough rev of bank's financing of arms sales; Repr Widnall notes over 39% of loans in last 2 fiscal yrs were for arms; Sen Ellender to be heard by Sen Banking Com; has clashed with Sec McNamara issue; to propose amendments barring bank from extending credits for arms and curbing Defense Dept guarantee authority; various factors in Cong concern discussed; include belief that bank is being diverted from true function and that new role has been instituted through stealth, if not outright deception; chart on expansion of arms credit in recent yrs
Protests against facility atop Pan Am Bldg wane as it completes 1 1/2 yrs of operation and has won approval of all govt agencies; operations described; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1967, covering July 23, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
Bill Cosby
1967Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)[â ]
Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and character rolesâeccentrics, underdogs, and misfitsâhe acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. He was voted the greatest actor of the 21st century in a 2024 ranking by The Independent.
1967Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.[â ]
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". Composed mainly of confrontations between African American residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[â ]