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resigns as Brit Foreign Sec; will remain MP; excerpts from resignation lr to Prime Min Wilson; illus
Natl Alliance of Businessmen asks NYC employers to provide 54,200 jobs over next 6 mos; sets quota of 35,700 summer jobs for youth, 18,500 permanent jobs for hard-core jobless by Sept; total quota set for NYC and NY-NJ region is 44,000 summer jobs, 22,600 permanent jobs; seeks 200,000 summer jobs, 100,000 permanent jobs by June '69, 400,000 more permanent jobs by June '71 under Job Opportunities in Business Sector (JOBS) program; table of quotas for 50 cities
gold price soars to record high of $44.36 per oz, Paris Bourse, as French Govt, alone among Western nations, keeps bullion mkt open; de Gaulle meets with restricted Cabinet Council; Debre hints that France should have been invited to Washington meeting; J Rueff and others critical of US for acting so late; he sees dollar being devalued unless gold price goes up in all nations with convertible currencies; Bourse trading illus
Sen approves change in Fed judicial system that would require jurors to be chosen by lot and not be handpicked; requirement of like selection of grand juries and petit jury panels eliminates 'blue ribbon grand jury'; bill rules out exclusion from jury service of any person because of race, color, religion, sex, natl origin or econ status; was initially drafted by Judge I R Kaufman: lauded by Sen Tydings: Fed jury selection in NYC and in about 40 other dists will be changed under new law
Pres Johnson said to be unable and unwilling to pledge not to send more troops to Vietnam as desired by some financial men in wake of gold-buying panic abroad
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 1968, covering March 16, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Aretha Franklin
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
1968Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (born 1895)[†]
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.
1968Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (born 1907)[†]
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.
1968Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]