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In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]
1968Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter (died 2015)[†]
Andriy Viktorovych "Kuzma" Kuzmenko was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor, Hero of Ukraine (2020). He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989. He died in a traffic collision on 2nd of February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, aged 46.
1968Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Edward Thomas McCaffrey is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers, and Denver Broncos. He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, earning first-team All-America honors in 1990.
1968Helen McCrory, English actress (died 2021)[†]
Helen Elizabeth McCrory was an English actress. After studying at the Drama Centre London, she made her professional stage debut in The Importance of Being Earnest in 1990. Other theatre roles include playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Rosalind in As You Like It in the West End for which she received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and Medea in the eponymous play at the Royal National Theatre.
NYS State Com grants more at-large votes to McCarthy forces and to Negroes and Puerto Ricans; McCarthy group gets 5 1/2 more votes, bringing at large total to 21 1 /2 and over-all total to 85; Negroes get 5 1/2 more votes, Puerto Ricans get 3 1/2; Chinese Dems get at-large delegate
Sen S M Young withdraws as Ohio favorite son, freeing 115 votes, and Sen Bayh heads off move to pledge 63-vote Ind delegation to him; moves seen helping Humphrey on 1st ballot; survey shows Humphrey leading in fight for Iowa delegation; Sen Muskie indicates he will free Maine delegation
Fed Govt, anticipating new gun control legis in Sept, delays approval of import licenses for about 400,000 foreign-made guns; import ban on cheap small-caliber guns does not become effective until Dec 15; State Dept links delay in approval of applications to Justice Dept queries on their legality; Sen Dodd legis to move up effective date of import ban noted
Bailey announces plans to curb interruptions that delay proceedings, press conf, Chicago; says decisions were made by Arrangements Com without consulting White House; insists he is running conv; says Johnson will be invited to attend conv as hon guest, as will Truman, Rev R D Abernathy, Mrs M L King Jr, Mrs R F Kennedy, Mrs J F Kennedy; says conv will hon R F Kennedy and A E Stevenson; Daley says demonstrations will be permitted as long as they are reasonable
he has another severe heart attack, his 2d in 2 wks
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Aug. 16 -Richard M. Nixon, who has been spending all week on the telephone with luminaries from the left wing of his party, conferred face-to-face today with the hero of its right: Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.
Fed ct orders carmen to end slowdown; directs union leaders to notify carmen that they are free to accept overtime; says injunction is conditioned on rr's refraining from putting into effect 3-shift shop operation plan; adds mgt is not entirely blameless in handling of labor relations; Ll AFL-CIO expresses 'grave concern' over 'deterioration' of relations; urges probe of mgt policies; LIRR cancels record 61 trains
W Ger Govt reptd willing to declare '38 Munich Pact 'null and void from outset', because it was drawn up under threat of force, to pave way for resumption of ties with Czech; although repeatedly calling pact 'no longer valid', Ger Govt has avoided 'null from outset' formula in past for fear of alienating Sudeten Gers; once pact is declared invalid, Czech and W Ger must settle legal consequences; Chancellor Kiesinger reptd hesitant to nullify treaty because it would set bad precedent; Govt weighing other possibilities; timing of statement linked with plans for rally of Sudeten Gers near Czech border in Bavaria, Aug 23; they hold proposed formula would 'create incalculable consequences'; possible effects listed; Czech said to favor proposal, but notes other conditions, which E Ger insists on, for rapprochement
successfully tested, Cape Kennedy; illus
Fowler emphasizes need to eliminate 'tourist deficit' in balance-of-payments, statement on decline in balance-of-payments deficit, Apr-June; urges Cong to provide funds to promote tourism to US, says he still hopes for passage of Adm proposed tax
Estimate Bd hearing on Housing and Development Adm plan to acquire 7 sites near Columbia U as part of Cathedral Pkwy Urban Renewal Area; bd approves start of $25-million project which will provide 1,000 low- and middle-income apts on these sites; 20 young persons, including some Columbia students, oppose project on grounds it will not provide enough low-income housing or Negroes and will not properly restrain Columbia expansion; clash with Controller Procaccino, conducting hearing; Procaccino walks out; leaders of Negro and Puerto Rican tenant assns object to youths' stand; say they would have preferred more low-income housing but want action on project to start now; Columbia repr opposes inclusion of two W 115th St sites it owns and former Woman's Hosp in project, offers to rehabilitate bldgs at 628 W 114th St and 534 W 115th St and lease them temporarily to city for low-income housing; adm agrees to ask bd to acquire 5 bldgs, Manhattan Av at 110th St, for inclusion in project; Assemblyman Jack backs project and inclusion of 5 additional bldgs; map
33 S Vietnamese killed in battle near Saigon; 70 enemy killed; allied troops kill 30 enemy near Pleiku; action in other areas reptd; map