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300 students end sit-down outside offices of proctors after proctors agree to lift rule against 'indiscriminate' distribution of any 'pub, circular, notice or any other literature' by students; action linked to warning to students that distribution of leaflets of pol nature by students off campus violated rule
trial opens, Fed ct; Marcus pleads guilty to accepting bribe in return for awarding $840,000 city contract; withdraws earlier plea in Water Dept contract to clean Jerome Pk Reservoir, Bronx; affirms he was not coerced or promised anything to do so, response to repeated queries by Judge Weinfeld; sentencing postponed until after codefendants' trial, at prosecution request; Itkin dropped as defendant without explanation; Weinfeld bars refs to $5,000 loan Motto reptdly made to Marcus at $150-a-wk interest; orders persons connected with trial to give no information to press, urges press pub only evidence heard in open ct; case, proceedings revd; Marcus illus
police oust extremist students from barricades after 300 moderate students clash with rebels in unsuccessful bid to oust them from univ; 9 students injured, 53 arrested; illus; police acted at request of d'Avack; student rebels earlier issued manifesto urging intensified struggle against Govt and end of univ exams and marking system which they hold are means by which ruling class decides what soc role students will play after graduation
Kuchel given slight lead
noted broadcasters walk off jobs, charging talks with new Information Min Guena show they could no longer assure objective reptg; Guena, citing need for broadcasting during current election campaign, threatens Govt action; police and soldiers reptd entering radio bldgs
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 29, 1968, covering June 4, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Soundtrack
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Simon & Garfunkel
1968Niurka Montalvo, Cuban-Spanish long jumper[†]
Niurka Montalvo Amaro is a former Cuban and Spanish athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump events. Her greatest achievement came in 1999, when she became world champion with a personal best jump of 7.06 metres. She was the autonomous secretary of sport for the Autonomous government of Valencia.
1968Al B. Sure!, American R&B singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer[†]
Albert Joseph Brown III, known professionally as Al B. Sure!, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, radio host and former record executive. He was born in Boston and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was one of new jack swing's most popular performers.
1968Scott Wolf, American actor[†]
Scott Richard Wolf is an American actor. In television, he is known for his roles as Bailey Salinger in Party of Five (1994–2000), as Jeremy Kates in The Nine (2006–2007), as Donnie Ryan in Perception (2013–2015) and as Carson Drew in Nancy Drew (2019–2023). In film, he is best known for starring in Go (1999) and voicing Scamp in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001).
1968Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)[†]
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American stage and screen actress. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]