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Brown held in Fed Courthouse, Foley Sq, NYC, after failing to post $25,000 bail; his atty W M Kunstler calls bail 'excessive and outrageous' and 'pol maneuver' to keep Brown in jail; says Brown's real crime is being militant black man; says 4 leading bond cos have refused to post bond; SNCC raises $10,000
The nation's oil industry has coped with the war in the Middle East and the Suez Canal closure that followed it much in the style of the tough professional athlete who works just hard enough to stay ahead of the game but can do a lot more if pushed.
Opens $750,000 bottling plant, Baltimore
Flying home from a well-received "non political" visit to Danang, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky relaxed with a cigarette in the cabin of his aging DC-6 airliner.
OSLO--The suggestion that we see a Norwegian fjord from a train window seemed, at first, to be highly improbable. The standard way to see a body of water, especially an arm of the sea projecting deeply inland, which is what a fjord is, is from a boat.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1967, covering August 20, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
1967Andy Benes, American baseball player[†]
Andrew Charles Benes is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most prominently as a member of the San Diego Padres, who selected Benes as the first overall pick in the 1988 MLB draft. With the Padres, he was named to the National League (NL) All-Star team in 1993 and led the league in strikeouts in 1994. He also played for the Seattle Mariners, St. Louis Cardinals, and Arizona Diamondbacks.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]