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city calm as police enforce curfew violations; C of C puts property damage and theft in millions of dollars
US C of C Taxation Com chmn Winter challenges Adm contention that income tax surcharge is needed to prevent recurrence of high interest rates, HR com
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22-- Premier Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam told Congress today in a letter that his Government was running a clean election and did not need a lesson in honesty from anyone.
Garden State Pkwy: Sen Case, in move to break impasse over Gov Hughes effort to end toll-free status of 14-mi sec, urges expansion of over-all Fed interstate hwy program from 41,000 mi to 50,000 mi to make funds available for parallel service rds for local residents who use toll-free stretch; opposes imposition of tolls unless alternate rds are provided; map
US planes bomg center of Hanoi; Hanoi repts 'numerous lives' lost; some damage described; AP repts US command made no mention of attacks in center of Hanoi when rept on Aug 22 raids, several targets hit in recent raids, including Canal des Rapides bridge near Hanoi, noted; bridge said to have been hit 3 times before; maps
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 1967, covering August 23, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
1967Jim Murphy, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe[†]
James Francis Murphy is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire, formerly Eastwood, from 1997 to 2015. He identifies as a social democrat and has expressed support for a foreign policy of Western interventionism. He has been described as being on the political right of the Labour Party.
1967Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer[†]
Richard George Petrie is a former New Zealand international cricketer who played 12 One Day Internationals.
1967Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (born 1918)[†]
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
1967Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (born 1883)[†]
Nathaniel John Cartmell, also known as Nat and Nate, was an American athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games. Importantly, Nate was on first racially integrated Men's Medley relay team that won Olympic gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics, which Nate helped form and featured Nate's fellow University of Pennsylvania alumnus and former teammate, Dr. John Baxter Taylor Jr., the first black athlete in America to win a gold medal in the Olympics. Nate is also known for being the first head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]