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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13--A House-Senate conference committee agreed today on a foreign aid appropriation of $2,315,680,000 for this fiscal year. The compromise agree ment was nearly $1-billion under the Administration's request and was a direct rebuff to President Johnson.
Westchester County police break multi-million-dollar prescription-drug theft ring in operation over 2 1/2 yrs; arrest I Zonana, alleged leader, and D Runch; most thefts were from Lederle Labs, Merck Sharpe & Dohme and E R Squibb Co; drugs were sold, often at cut rates, throughout country
Councilman Friedland to offer bill to add 5,000
Labor Dept repts unemployment down sharply, Nov, to 3.9%, seasonally adjusted, indicating 4.3% rate in Oct was caused mainly by strikes; rate still higher than 3.5% of Nov '66; spurt in jobs seen weakening argument for tax rise; total employment up 450,000, nonfarm payrolls up 480,000
NFL pol program will be circulated by Sec Gen Thant to UN members
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 1967, covering December 14, 1967.
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Beatles
The Doors
The Mamas & The Papas
1967Ewa Białołęcka, Polish author[†]
Ewa Białołęcka is a Polish fantasy writer. She currently lives in Gdańsk. Her literary debut was her short story Wariatka (Madwoman), published in 1993. Since then she has written more than a dozen short stories, two of which, Tkacz Iluzji (1994) and Błękit Maga (1997) were awarded with the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, and another, Nocny śpiewak, nominated to this award. She also published Piołun i miód, all of which are part of the Kroniki Drugiego Kręgu series. In 2005, she published Naznaczeni błękitem, which is a new version of the Tkacz Iluzji short story collection, made more consistent with the other two novels. Białołęcka also creates stained glass works.
1967Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper and coach[†]
Hanne Birgit Haugland is a former Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]