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CIERNA, Czechoslovakia, July 29 -- Virtually the entire ruling bodies of the Soviet and Czechoslovak Communist parties met today in this tiny border town to try to bridge the bitter division that has grown between them.
MOSCOW, July 29 -- Pravda, in a long and detailed article today, emphasized Czechoslovakia's economic dependence on the Soviet Union. The article was obviously designed to maintain pressure on Czechoslovakia to reverse her democratic reforms.
reaction among Caths; liberals seen indifferent, conservatives heartened; details
Humphrey backs abolition of unit rule, statement, Los Angeles; says he is willing to let delegates pledged to him under unit rule vote as they please; bids McCarthy to join him in getting open conv by releasing all delegates bound to him; move seen more an effort to pacify McCarthy backers than as signaling shift of his delegates to McCarthy; Humphrey continues his pursuit of votes of Negroes, Mex-Amers and young people; campaigns in Watts under heavy police protection; backed by Negro 'soul' singer J Brown; illus
discusses poll showing Nixon would have trouble defeating Humphrey whereas he would not, press conf, Pittsburgh; campaigns in Pittsburgh and Chicago, then flies to Denver
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 1968, covering July 30, 1968.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Cream
Simon & Garfunkel
Richard Harris
Soundtrack
1968Terry Crews, American actor and football player[†]
Terry Alan Crews is an American actor, television host, and former professional football player. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which aired from 2005 to 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox and NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021). Crews starred in the BET reality series The Family Crews (2010–2011), and hosted the U.S. version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in films, including Friday After Next (2002), White Chicks (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Blended (2014), The Expendables film series (2010–2014), and Rumble (2021). Crews began hosting America's Got Talent in 2019, following his involvement in the same role for the program's spin-off series America's Got Talent: The Champions.
1968Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker and coach[†]
Robert Marek Korzeniowski is a Polish former racewalker who won four gold medals at the Olympic Games and three gold medals at World Championships.
1968Sean Moore, Welsh drummer and songwriter[†]
Sean Anthony Moore is a Welsh musician. He is drummer, percussionist and occasional trumpet-player of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He is cousin to bandmate James Dean Bradfield.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]