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HR debate on open housing issue seen delayed until about time King starts march on Washington, April 22
strike continues except at mil terminal; Gleason predicts spread from Maine to Va; pickets demonstrate at comm and auth; Shipping Assn defers action against ILA after conf with its labor policy com; sends wires to Hughes and Gov Rockefeller asking intervention aimed at 'reconsideration' of comm plan; assn pres Will says strike costs labor and mgt $1.5-million a day each; comm begins distributing application blanks for docker jobs, Newark; to distribute blanks for checker jobs; 950 apply; illus; Gleason and ILA execs conf with Waterfront Comrs Kaitz and Bercik; Gleason calls talks fruitless, cites pol pressure on comrs
Gov Rockefeller's special com on abortion reform expected to recommend much broader liberalization of law than does Blumenthal bill; Blumenthal silent
SIC opens hearings on munic hosp conditions as part of yr-long probe; SIC aide says munic hosps Coney Is and Bird S Coler got $1-million in research funds out affiliated voluntary hosps Maimonides and NY Med Coll-Flower 5th Av kept funds without providing services for which funds were intended over and above costs of personnel and equipment covered by grants; some irregularities charged at Greenpoint Hosp; other testimony
Tuskegee Negro sheriff L Amerson arrests Notasulga Police Chief B Singleton and state trooper J H Bass after Negro O L Devance charged he was beaten by Bass and threatened at gunpoint by Singleton; asks for FBI and Justice Dept probe; state Pub Safety Dept probes charge
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 1968, covering March 20, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Aretha Franklin
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
1968Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean runner[†]
Carlos Almeida is a Cape Verdean long-distance runner.
1968A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author[†]
Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.
1968Paul Merson, English footballer and manager[†]
Paul Charles Merson is an English former professional footballer, manager, commentator and sports television pundit for Sky Sports.
1968Ultra Naté, American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter[†]
Ultra Naté is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free", "If You Could Read My Mind", and "Automatic".
1968Ken Ono, Japanese-American mathematician[†]
Ken Ono is an American mathematician with fields of study in number theory. He is the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.
1968Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (born 1889)[†]
Carl Theodor Dreyer, commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers in history, his movies are noted for emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing, frequent themes of social intolerance, the inseparability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]