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Detroit Teachers Fed members to vote on Educ Bd contract proposal; earlier 5,000 teachers at Detroit U rally refused to submit pay dispute to arbitration; Lt Gov Milliken urges other state school bds to seek ct injunctions to force teachers back to work
FAA seeks Johnson Adm aid in getting funds for more traffic controllers, control towers and electronic equipment to keep pace with growing air travel; deputy admr Thomas comments; says current budget request of $811-million would provide only 1/3 additional, controllers and maintenance men needed
Memorial service, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC; illus; eulogies by Pres Johnson, M Van Doren and A MacLeish; Mrs Johnson, daughter Lynda and her fiance Capt C S Robb attend
8 killed, over 70 hurt when cog ry train descending Mt Washington plunges into gorge; map
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept. 17--Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel predicted today that the pressure of reality and the passage of time would bring the Arab states to "understand the necessity of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 1967, covering September 18, 1967.
The Beatles
The Doors
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
Jefferson Airplane
1967Tara Fitzgerald, English actress[†]
Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia in Hamlet. She won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St Columb in Frenchman's Creek. Fitzgerald has appeared in the West End production of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre, and in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse. Since 2007, Fitzgerald has appeared in more than 30 episodes of the BBC television series Waking the Dead and played the role of Selyse Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
1967John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)[†]
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was an English nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]