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People for Rockefeller postcard crusade opened; additional programs sponsored by group described; Rockefeller's main ad effort seen costing ultimately $4- to $5-million; technique is to bring direct popular pressure on delegates of uncommitted indus states that may hold balance of power at conv; People for Rockefeller spokesman says orgn is supported by separate fund-raising effort, not by Rockefeller family; Rockefeller, in TV int, says firm of A M Crossley will undertake natl poll as he suggested and Nixon declined to participate in that will permit comparison between own strength and Nixon's
Sec Clifford, arriving in Saigon, says he is determined to give S Vietnamese Army more weapons and greater firepower even at expense of US troops; says M-16s and other weapons will be made available; Brig Gen W Sidle comments; details on weapons
D Middleton series on conditions and attitudes in Arab world a yr after war
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 10, 1968, covering July 15, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Richard Harris
Sergio Mendes
1968Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor, and producer[†]
Edward Rubin Griffin is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for portraying Eddie Sherman in the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother, and Tiberius Jefferson "T.J." Hicks in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also portrayed Lester Matthews in John Q. (2002), Orpheus in Scary Movie 3 (2003), Pope Sweet Jesus in Norbit (2007), and voiced Richard Pryor on Black Dynamite (2012–2015). Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]