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H R, 307-45, approves bill to bar discrimination in selection of Fed jurors
Eban says peace feelers are being put out in several ways, including talks through Jarring, s, Knesset; holds Israel prepared to cooperate in proposal that Arab countries and Israel send reprs to Jarring hq in Nicosia or any other place; insists that settlement must be reached through direct negotiations ending in a treaty; derides proposals, such as that offered by Tito, for arrangement that would bind both sides but would be neither negotiated nor contracted; says Arabs, when they do come to negotiating table, will find Israel's proposals for new boundaries consistent with their interests and natl hon
city grants cash pay for some overtime work, instead of equal time off, in new contract with State, County and Munic Employes
Hawthorne Circle: Circle to undergo $22.1-million, 3-yr modernization to ease congestion on Westchester hwys in area; will become 3-level interchange linking Saw Mill River, Taconic State and Sprain Brook Pkwys; map
Agr Dept survey shows 1 household in every 5 eats nutritionally 'poor' combination of foods; 1/2 of households sampled were eating nutritionally 'good' diet; '55 survey showed 15% in 'poor', 60% in good categories; reasons for decline noted; among households with income under $3,000 a yr 37% were listed as good, 27% fair and 36% poor; chart
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 21, 1968, covering February 27, 1968.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Diana Ross & The Supremes
1968Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster[†]
Matthew Wade Stairs is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter, who holds the record for most pinch-hit home runs in Major League Baseball (MLB) history with 23. His pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning of Game 4 in the 2008 National League Championship Series off the Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Jonathan Broxton was called "one of the most memorable home runs in Phillies history".
1968Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)[†]
Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group the Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. In 1968, Lymon was found dead at the age of 25 on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. Lymon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. His life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]