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July 14, 1968

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Historical Context for July 14, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[โ€ ]

Notable Deaths

Konstantin Paustovsky

1968Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (born 1892)[โ€ ]

Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.

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Headlines from July 14, 1968

Rolling Along on Love -- And Hope; Rolling Along on Love

By John Lahr

JOSEPH PAPP'S lumbering Mobile Theater unit of the New York Shakespeare Festival was conceived in urgency and propelled by necessity. For a number of years, it has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous weather plus the rocks, sparklers and other debris hurled by recalcitrant slum youths obeying their own territorial imperatives. This is not street theater, but park theater.

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YANKEES TRIUMPH, 4-2; Home Runs by Pepitone, Tresh Subdue White Sox

By Leonard Koppett

CHICAGO, July 13 -- A couple of home runs and a steal of home, combined with the fine relief pitching of Steve Hamilton, gave the suddenly aroused New York Yankees a 4-2 victory today over the Chicago White Sox and a sweep of the three-game series. It was the first time in nearly two years that the Yankees had swept a three-game series away from home, since Sept. 9 through ]1, 1966, at Boston.

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ROCKEFELLER GIVES FOUR-STAGE PLAN TO END THE WAR; Includes Pullback of Troops, a Neutral Buffer Force and Free Elections

By R. W. Apple Jr

Gov Rockefeller proposes 4-stage Vietnam peace plan, news conf; says plan could end war in 6 mos; plan would include gradual pullback by both sides, formation of neutral buffer force and holding of free elections in which Vietcong would participate; Rockefeller says he would be willing to modify plan in talks with Vietnamese to gain its acceptance; says he would take number of steps at once, whatever Hanoi's attitude; makes other comments; contributors to plan noted; McCarthy calls plan unrealistic

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