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Article on work of typical HR com hearing in terms of strategy, ritual, accomplishments; illus
Mayor Lee imposes curfew and declares state of emergency as violence continues for 2d night; some looting reptd; 165 persons arrested, total now 215; Natl Guard unit on standby alert dismissed; State Community Affairs Com LeR Jones in city; calls disorders shocking; map of area
White House educ panel headed by W C Friday, apptd by Pres Johnson in '66, holds Fed Govt must continue to focus its aid on inner city and rural schools; member says recent urban riots have underscored panel's findings on importance of reaching disadvantaged youths
NYC Mayor Lindsay says he will seek city law to bar sales or display of weapons and ammunition whenever Police Comr certifies civil disorder exists or is imminent; says he will also ask City Council to require police permits for purchases of rifles or shotguns
Newark, NJ, PAL, withdrawing from summer program with antipoverty orgn, charges children have been sent to camps, including Abelard, that may be training grounds for leftist militants; Abelard dir Fink denial
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1967, covering August 21, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
1967Darren Bewick, Australian footballer[†]
Darren Bewick is a former Australian rules footballer who won two premierships with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bewick's game breaking pace & goal sense inside the attacking 50 was legendary amongst Bomber fans.
1967Charb, French journalist and cartoonist (died 2015)[†]
Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier, better known as Charb, was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
1967Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress[†]
Carrie-Anne Moss is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in The Matrix series (1999–present). She has starred in Memento (2000), for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Red Planet (2000), Chocolat (2000), Fido (2006), Snow Cake (2006), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Disturbia (2007), Unthinkable (2010), Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), and Pompeii (2014). She also portrayed Jeri Hogarth in several television series produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, most notably Jessica Jones (2015–2019).
1967Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer[†]
Serj Tankian is an Armenian-American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band System of a Down, which was formed in 1994.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]