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1st Natl City Bank raises costs of personal loans by avg of 1/4 of 1 percentage point; examples; other banks expected to follow suit
hundreds of thousands of farmers hold nationwide 'day of warning'; demonstrators clash with police, Agen; map; natl farm leaders seek to keep movement separate from worker and student movements
N Vietnamese spokesman in Paris accuses US of intensifying ground war; Amer spokesman rejects charge; Hanoi spokesman scores US mil actions
PRAGUE, May 24 -- The armed forces of the Warsaw Pact will hold exercises on Czechoslovak and Polish territory next month, Czechoslovakia announced tonight.
US marines open offensive aimed at driving enemy away from Danang; 76 enemy killed in 5 days since offensive began; other details on offensive; enemy stages attack near Saigon; action in other areas reptd; illus; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 22, 1968, covering May 25, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Soundtrack
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
1968Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster[†]
Kendall Cedric Gill is an American former professional basketball player who now works as a television basketball analyst. Throughout his NBA career he was known as “Cold World” for his ice cold demeanor on the court.
1968Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (born 1881)[†]
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.
1968The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.[†]
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch and Missouri's tallest accessible structure. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States and officially dedicated to "the American people", the Arch, commonly referred to as "The Gateway to the West", is a National Historic Landmark in Gateway Arch National Park and has become a popular tourist destination, as well as an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]