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Citizens for Kennedy hq replies to McCarthy; chmn Shepard says orgn has no ties with Kennedy; defends brochure; Kennedy dissociates self from com and from any information it distributes
Vietcong steps up attacks on Saigon, shelling several targets; clashes break out through city; details; US repts 14 civilians killed, 235 wounded, as result of attacks on Saigon; Col Dam Van Quy killed; map; illus
Police Dept says it met force with force in clearing demonstrators from campus bldgs, rept to Lindsay; scores univ adm for underestimating number of students in bldgs and extent of involvement of faculty in support of students; says dept used plainclothesmen to assist in clearing bldgs because they were most readily available force; Rudd calls rept 'bunch of lies'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 1, 1968, covering May 7, 1968.
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Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Aretha Franklin
Simon & Garfunkel
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1968Traci Lords, American actress and singer[†]
Traci Elizabeth Lords is an American actress and singer. As a 15-year-old high-school dropout, she used fake identity documents to enter the sex industry, where she began appearing in pornographic magazines and films. The September 1984 edition of Penthouse featured her as its centerfold, and she went on to become one of the most sought-after pornographic actresses of the mid-1980s, appearing in an estimated 75 adult films and videos. In 1986, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received an anonymous tip that she had been a minor during her time in the industry. All pornographic material featuring Lords—except her last film, Traci, I Love You, which had been shot two days after her 18th birthday—was removed from distribution in the United States as child pornography. Efforts to prosecute two producers and her former talent agent failed as Lords had used a stolen birth certificate to obtain a federal passport and California driver's license, thereby giving industry personnel a reasonable belief that she was over 18 at the time.
1968Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport[†]
Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, Raitt was elected to the House of Commons in the 2008 election, representing Halton. Shortly after her election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named her minister of natural resources, holding the role until 2010, when she became minister of labour. In 2013, she became minister of transport, remaining in the role until the Conservatives were defeated by the Liberal Party in the 2015 election. Raitt was re-elected in the newly formed riding of Milton. She contested the Conservative leadership in 2017, losing to Andrew Scheer, who made her deputy party leader and deputy opposition leader, a role she would hold until she was defeated in the 2019 election. Since leaving politics, she has been the vice chair of Global Investment Banking at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]