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A many-faceted paradise glimmered above the horizon for the New York Mets and their followers yesterday, but it proved to be a mirage -- for the time being, at least -- as the Mets lost, 9-5, to the San Francisco Giants.
4 enemy rockets strike at port of Saigon; allied mil command repts significant fighting at edge of Saigon and near Khesanh outpost; 3 persons injured in shelling; 80 enemy killed in Saigon, 186 at Khesanh; details on action in and around Saigon; 21 enemy killed S of Danang; map
article on 53 car-free resorts that can be reached only by cable car or cog-wheel mt ry; other towns have rds leading to them, but refuse to let autos pass through their sts
US reptdly urging W Ger to play down issue posed by E Ger travel curbs to W Berlin lest hopes of improving ties with USSR be affected; Rusk visit to NYC for luncheon conf with Kuznetsov and inv to Dobrynin to accompany him linked
DOUGLAS TURNER WARD, Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone, who head the Negro Ensemble Company, have been in the play business too long to grow smug with success. But that doesn't inhibit them from expressing pleasure as they contemplate the results of their initial season's endeavors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 12, 1968, covering June 16, 1968.
Soundtrack
Simon & Garfunkel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Monkees
Bobby Goldsboro
1968Adam Schmitt, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer[†]
Adam Schmitt is a singer/songwriter from Urbana, Illinois. He recorded two albums, World So Bright and Illiterature with Reprise Records in the early 1990s. He recorded albums in his Mixolydian Studios, working with artists such as Hum and Uncle Tupelo. He released his third album, Demolition, in 2001 after signing with Parasol Records, and continues to record and produce albums for other artists, including Velvet Crush, Three Hour Tour, Robynn Ragland, and Destroy The Heart. He has worked with Tommy Keene, Eric Voeks, Richard Lloyd, Common Loon, Megan Johns, Unbunny, The Dirty Feathers, Elsinore, The Hathaways, and Shipwreck.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]