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Pearson Govt bill to impose 5% surcharge on income taxes, already in effect since Jan 1, and to speed up corp tax collections defeated, 84-82, House of Commons, in vote for which Govt was apparently unprepared; defeat kills measure for this session; Conservatives call for Pearson resignation
about 40% of Fla's 60,000 teachers boycott classes; illus; NEA says action is 1st statewide walkout in nation; top assn leaders in state; Christian says he plans to operate schools
House of Delegates meets
Gov Rockefeller, announcing new study of Taylor Law by labor experts, asks panel reexamine exemption of city's bargaining procedures from state control, cited as 1 reason law was unable to prevent sanitationmen's strike, news conf; bars comment on Lindsay's relations with pub employe unions, voices sympathy with problems
Asst Sec Mehren says recent spot check of retail mkts in 16 states showed 20% of chickens not federally inspected were unfit for human consumption, HR Agr Subcom hearings on Adm-backed proposals to protect consumer against sale of unwholesome poultry; claims only 4 states have adequate inspection programs; NYC Health Services Adm pub information dir Levenson says NYC inspection standards are high; NYS, Conn and NJ inspection standards defended
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 1968, covering February 20, 1968.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Diana Ross & The Supremes
1968Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (born 1902)[†]
Anthony Asquith was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
1968The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.[†]
The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) is a Chinese space agency and subordinate of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The agency was founded on 20 February 1968, and is the main spacecraft development and production facility in China. On 24 April 1970, CAST successfully launched China's first artificial satellite Dong Fang Hong I.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]