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Enemy shelling of Saigon discussed; anxieties among residents have been intensified
antisniper police guard Lindsay at ceremony, City Hall plaza; man with knife seized; special police detail arranged by Lindsay security agent, reptdly without prior Knowledge of Lindsay or top police officials; Lindsay earlier toured Bedford-Stuyvesant sec with single detective
USSR destroyer in May kept maneuvering in front of US nuclear submarine Scorpion, on surface, while Scorpion was on Mediterranean duty; jet planes of nearby US aircraft carrier responded, causing destroyer to leave
HR Judiciary Com, 16-16, refuses to approve Adm request for sticter controls but does decide to re-examine issue on June 20; Johnson disappointed; com opposition seen directed not so much at Adm's bill but at lack of time to consider it; Cong members inundated with mail and wires backing stronger gun controls since Kennedy's assassination; Sen Javits office repts receipt of about 2,000 such messages in 2 days; Sen Hart, who has opposed controls, repts shift in usual trend and demands for stronger controls from his Mich constituents; no sign of Natl Rifle Assn waging mail campaign against Adm's latest bill seen
Canadian police rept P Bridgman, R G Sneyd and E St V Galt, Union Carbide of Canada supervisor, whose names Ray used as aliases, bear remarkable resemblance to Ray; pors of men and Ray; FBI weighs possibility that 4th Toronto man, J Willard, may have provided Ray with another alias; say 'J Willard' rented room in Memphis, Tenn, with view of motel where King was killed; Toronto boarding house owner says man came looking for Ray after he left
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 12, 1968, covering June 12, 1968.
Soundtrack
Simon & Garfunkel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Monkees
Bobby Goldsboro
1968Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach[†]
Scott Phillip Aldred is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and current minor league pitching coach.
1968Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (died 1999)[†]
Blues Traveler is an American rock band that formed in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1987. They are known for their extensive use of segues in live performances, and could be considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s, spearheading the H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival.
1968Herbert Read, English poet and critic (born 1893)[†]
Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]