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In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]
1968Guinevere Turner, American actress and screenwriter[†]
Guinevere Jane Turner is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. She wrote the films American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and played the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted. She was a story editor and played recurring character Gabby Deveaux on Showtime's The L Word.
all 23 aboard killed as craft chartered by Los Angeles Airways crashes, Paramount, Calif, on Disneyland-Los Angeles flight; map
Cong approves truth-in-lending bill which includes provision to protect homeowners from unknowingly signing 2d mortgages to finance home repairs
PARIS, May 22 -- The Gaullist Government, beset by a paralyzing nationwide strike survived a left-wing challenge tonight in the National Assembly when it narrowly defeated a motion of censure.
many tourists detoured to Brussels
about 350 teachers supporting reinstatement of 13 'ousted' colleagues walk out of 8 dist schools; illus; Shanker charges teachers were locked out of classrooms; urges parents and teachers to rally at City Hall in support of 'due process' for 'dismissed' teachers; says he will not rule out citywide teacher strike over issue; McCoy calls lockout charge 'lie'; Council of Supervisory Assns repr denies 6 admrs requested transfers
has heart attack; will not take post
accord on strong decentralization plan collapses apparently because of diminishing support by legislators under heavy pressure from groups opposed to plan; new plan weighed which would be modified version of Marchi proposal, reptdly providing for enlarging city's Educ Bd to allow for apptmt of pro-decentralization members and authorizing bd to prepare decentralization plan for consideration by '69 Legis; plan would also direct bd to give almost autonomous powers to 3 pilot school dists, including powers to hire and discharge teachers, set curriculums and allocate budget funds but only within limits of present state regulations
Team of Harvard U chemists under Prof Corey synthesizes 5 kinds of hormone-like chems called prostaglandins; substances described as 'messenger' chems that control cellular reactions; potential therapeutic value noted; Corey int; other scientists comment
new campus violence flares as students, in apparent pretest against student suspensions, smash windows and doors of univ bldgs; illus; waves of police sweep through univ grounds clubbing, kicking and punching student protesters who in turn fling rocks, taunts and obsenities at police; 68 persons injured, 177 arrested; NY Times reporters say they saw some police carrying guns in their hands; Police Dept repr denies this; 12-member faculty exec com scores student demonstrators; Students for Restructured Univ and Strike Coordinating Com score univ adm; Kirk warns univ will use 'all measures necessary to restore campus peace,' news conf; use of police on campus is 1st since May 9; 2 univ spokesmen hold univ's involvement with Inst for Defense Analyses was 'minimal,' fact-finding comm
gets 5-yr jail term, fined $5,000 for violating Fed firearms act
all banks closed