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In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]
1968Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player and manager[†]
Dhanraj Pillay is a retired Indian field hockey player and former captain of the India national team. He also looks after the Air India Sports Promotion Board as a Joint Secretary based in Mumbai. For the last 5 years, Dhanraj is overseeing the SAG Hockey Academy in Gujarat funded by the Gujarat Government. He is widely regarded as one of the best Indian players of hockey.
1968Barry Sanders, American football player[†]
Barry Sanders is an American former professional football running back who played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. Sanders led the league in rushing yards four times and in rushing touchdowns once, establishing himself as one of the most elusive runners in the history of the NFL with his quickness and agility, despite being only 5 ft 8 tall and weighing 203 lbs. Sanders played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. As a junior in 1988, he compiled what is widely considered the greatest individual season by a running back in college football history, rushing for 2,628 yards and 37 touchdowns in 11 games. He won the Heisman Trophy and was unanimously recognized as an All-American.
1968Larry Sanger, American philosopher and businessman, co-founded Wikipedia and Citizendium[†]
Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Prior to Wikipedia, he was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, another online encyclopedia and the predecessor of Wikipedia. He later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia.
1968Michael Searle, Australian rugby league player and businessman[†]
Michael Searle is an Australian businessman and rugby league football identity. He was the first Chief Executive for the Gold Coast Titans, whose inaugural season in the National Rugby League was 2007. Searle also manages an accountancy firm, an international talent management group and headed the push for an independent commission to take over the running of the NRL. This occurred in 2012.
1968Robert Sherman, American songwriter and businessman[†]
Robert Jason Sherman, known as Robbie Sherman, is an American songwriter based in London. He was born in Los Angeles to Joyce and Robert B. Sherman, the youngest of four siblings. Stemming from a long line of songwriters and composers, spanning more than four generations, at 16 Sherman became one of the youngest songwriters ever invited to join BMI and is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He is perhaps best known for his work on Love Birds: The Musical, which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
1968Olga Souza, Brazilian singer and dancer[†]
Olga Maria de Souza is a Brazilian singer, model and dancer. She is best known as the frontwoman of the Italian group Corona, produced by Francesco "Checco" Bontempi, a.k.a. "Lee Marrow".
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Boro Pres Sutton and County Exec Nickerson, in endorsing McCarthy for Pres, cite McCarthy war stand as basis for conviction
Party and govt leaders of USSR, Bulgaria, E Ger, Hungary and Poland issue communique, Warsaw, on 2-day meeting linked to Czech liberalization; say conf focused on 'activation of aggressive imperialist forces that are striving through subversive actions to undermine socialist system in individual countries and to weaken ideological bonds and cooperation uniting socialist states'; say information was exchanged on situation in their countries and on events in Czech; rept sending joint lr to Czech party leaders
Czech calls for basic revision of Pact to insure genuine equality far members; demand made by Lt Gen Prchlik in briefing for Czech newsmen; authoritative sources rept Czech wants top command rotated among members and amendment to prevent Pact from being used for pol instead of mil ends; say Soviet, Polish and Hungarian troops streamed into Czech for exercises in numbers never fully communicated to Prague and used some border crossing points that had not been designated as official; say estimated 16,000 USSR troops came, with 4,500 vehicles, 70 tanks and 40 airplanes; few of men and little of equipment are thought to have left; Prchlik holds Pact must not be used by any group within it against a member; says USSR troops will leave but that departure schedule has been extended 5 days; says Yakubovsky attributes delay to his order that movements must take place at night to avoid interfering with normal traffic; urges Czechs to remain calm
US Under Sec Rostow and USSR aide A V Besedin comment on relevance to US-USSR ties of opening of regular Moscow-NYC passenger flights, ss, NYC ceremony
N Vietnamese spokesman says there have been 'some rare occasions' when both delegations continued to talk about 'serious questions' during recesses in course of negotiations, news conf; insists talks produce 'no ray of hope' for settlement; gibes at Harriman's 'straws in the wind' phrase; discloses Harriman, during recess, expressed thanks for release of 3 Amer pilots by N Vietnam; Harriman cites spokesman's admission as 'straw in wind'; Vance to leave for Washington to consult with Johnson; reprs of 30 Amer antiwar groups meet with Xuan Thuy; seek like meeting with Harriman, but have been rebuffed thus far; are surprised Amer delegation fends off contacts; Women Strike for Peace leader C Weiss, in asking for apptmt with Harriman, gets reply from Amer delegation spokesman saying delegation 'adopted policy of not meeting with private delegations' though it is happy to study views of any citizen or group
Dept sets up special sqd to probe new wave of bombings
Vice Pres Humphrey reaffirms advocacy of strict gun control laws, reply to question from Georgetown school paper
D Middleton series on conditions and attitudes in Arab world a yr after war
Black Inds and Dems for Rockefeller formed, NYC; includes moderate and militant Negroes; leaders include J Farmer, O Ahmed, Rev M L King Sr, Dr B Watkins, L Peterson, Mrs A C Logan; orgn scores Nixon campaign, statement listing 6 reasons why it backs Rockefeller
Johnson stresses his desire to leave legacy of better relations with USSR after his term of office, message to Sen transmitting treaty on rescue and recovery of astronauts involved in crash-landings on foreign soil; confident of detente soon; calls treaty important step in series of accords; holds US-USSR cooperation vital to world peacemaking moves; some observers believe Johnson would like to meet with USSR leaders before he leaves office; Under Sec Katzenbach comments on Johnson efforts for detente
Closes suddenly as ct orders eviction because of operating co's failure to meet lease payments to property owners; hotel's history as capital landmark discussed; illus
Assembly begins plenary debate on 6 position papers