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The New York Mets turned the time clock back one century last night in an envious Old-Timers Day salute to a baseball team that once played 130 games without losing.
The New York Mets, the youngest team in baseball, paid due respect to their elders last night on Old-Timers Day, then knocked off the Cincinnati Reds, 5-2.
Assn of Washington Priests refuses to obey Cardinal O'Boyle order backing traditional RC ban on contraception; to rely on Cath Theol Soc of Amer policy; soc exec Rev C E Curran says most Cath theologians and many Cath married couples see no moral problem in responsible use of contraception, s, Olean, NY
E Chodorov article urges grants and subsidies to older professional playwrights who, he argues, need them more than young writers
CLEVELAND, July 27 -- The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians both pounded out 10 hits and committed two errors today, but the Yankees registered their second straight victory in a four-game weekend series, 6-3, riding to the triumph on a first-inning grand-slam home run by Tom Tresh.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 1968, covering July 28, 1968.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Cream
Simon & Garfunkel
Richard Harris
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1968Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)[†]
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered isotopes of the radioactive elements radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]