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Columbia U surrenders all rights to Strickman cigarette filter to Strickman Foundation at request of R L Strickman; Columbia says it made mistake in entering 'controversial commercial field'; Strickman says Columbia was not qualified to handle business; controversy over filter value detailed; Imperial Tobacco Co, Canada, signs contract with foundation to mkt cigarettes with filter; mktg survey indicates consumers prefer Strickman device over other well-known filters; illus
announces his withdrawal from Repub Pres campaign, statement and press conf, Washington; says he has failed to win wide support from rank-and-file Repubs and thinks he can better serve US and his principles as noncandidate; illus
Rockefeller sources say he could open full-scale campaign 'within 2 wks' if he wishes; note he is surrounded by group of experienced pol operatives, including G L Hinman, R A Douglass and A G Marshall
informed sources rept US has suspended all nuclear-armed airborne alert flights by B-52s following Greenland crash; say McNamara gave order day or 2 after crash; training flights to continue but without weapons; Defense Dept officially silent
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1968, covering February 29, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Aretha Franklin
1968Chucky Brown, American basketball player and coach[†]
Clarence "Chucky" Brown Jr. is an American men's college basketball coach and former professional basketball player.
1968Gareth Farr, New Zealand composer and percussionist[†]
Gareth Vincent Farr is a New Zealand composer and percussionist. He has released a number of classical CDs and composed a number of works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) and Royal New Zealand Ballet. He has also performed in drag under the name Lilith LaCroix in a show called Drumdrag and has also released a CD under that name.
1968Pete Fenson, American curler[†]
Peter Fenson is an American curler. He was the skip of the men's rink that represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal, the first Olympic medal for the United States in curling. He has won eight national championships, the most recent in Philadelphia in March 2014, and six as skip.
1968Bryce Paup, American football player and coach[†]
Bryce Eric Paup is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Minnesota Vikings.
1968Howard Tayler, American author and illustrator[†]
Howard V. Tayler is the creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. He worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church, then graduated from Brigham Young University. Using his degree in music composition, he started an independent record label.
1968Eugene Volokh, Ukrainian-American lawyer and educator[†]
Eugene Volokh is an American legal scholar known for his scholarship in American constitutional law and libertarianism as well as his prominent legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. Volokh is regarded as an expert on the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment.
1968Frank Woodley, Australian actor, producer and screenwriter[†]
Frank Woodley is an Australian comedian, author and musician who is best known for his work alongside Colin Lane as part of the comedic duo Lano and Woodley. The two first performed together for almost 20 years in live shows, a television series and an album of comedic songs, before deciding to pursue individual careers in 2006. They announced their reformation in November 2017.
1968Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet and educator (born 1886)[†]
Tore Ørjasæter was a Norwegian educator and poet.
1968Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.[†]
Aeroflot Flight 15 was a passenger flight from Moscow-Domodedovo Airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport with a stopover at Yemelyanovo Airport that crashed on 29 February 1968 en route to Petropavlovsk. All but one aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]