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recent rash of human heart transplants spurs internatl debate among drs on advisability of such transplants on humans without more research into body's ability to accept another person's organs
Navy bldg 'substantial number' of fast boats to counter UAR Komar-class gunboats; Israeli boats, designated Saar class, to weigh 240 tons, have speed over 40 knots
Block dies 8 hrs after operation; Kantrowitz blames insufficient pumping capacity of new heart; med teams in Miss U Med Center, Bapt Memorial Hosp (Okla City) and Colo U Med Center prepare to perform transplants
BLS repts jobless rate down, Doc, to 3.7%, making avg annual rate 3.8%, same as '66; total unemployed down to 2.7-million, with rate for whites 3.3%, for nonwhites 6.9%; total labor force, '67, up 1.9-million to avg 80,793,000; civilian labor force up 1,577,000 to 77,347,000; avg annual employment, '67, at record 74,371,000, avg unemployment 2,975,000
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 1968, covering January 11, 1968.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Beatles
1968Anders Borg, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Finance[†]
Anders Erik Borg is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
1968Tom Dumont, American guitarist and producer[†]
Thomas Martin Dumont is an American musician and producer. Dumont is a member of third wave ska band No Doubt, and during the band's hiatus, he began Invincible Overlord as a side project and produced Matt Costa's Songs We Sing.
1968Steve Mavin, Australian rugby league player[†]
Steve Mavin is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1987 until 1990. Mavin played in England for Trafford Borough in 1990, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in 1991 and then returned to the Rabbitohs in 1992.
1968Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (born 1876)[†]
Moshe Zvi (Hirsch) Segal was an Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]