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Garbage: Poll of NYS citizens views on NYC sanitationmen's strike
US marines reach south wall of Hue Citadel to close important phase of battle to control city; battle in city continues; enemy forces still control Imperial City within Citadel; battle for Imperial City expected to be costly; map; illus
T W Kheel proposes pub employe unions be allowed to strike except where pub health or safety is threatened, rept to Travia; bars strikes by police, firemen or sanitation workers; says Legis should impose settlements in deadlocked disputes, possibly through binding arbitration, and allow Gov to invoke cooling-off period; would also give Legis flexibility to act in specific disputes; urges improving bargaining procedures and caliber of negotiators, rather than increasing penalties; indicates little faith in severe penalties as strike deterrent; criticizes law machinery; charges govts are more concerned with barring walkouts than with reaching agreements; urges sparing use of arbitration; Rockefeller, Lindsay decline immediate comment
Wheeler arrives in Vietnam to get 1st-hand look at war and convey to Westmoreland confidence placed in him by Johnson and Joint Cs/S
Cartoonist P Arno, associated with pub since '25, dies
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 21, 1968, covering February 23, 1968.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Diana Ross & The Supremes
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]