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comment on heavy trading in FNMA stock by investors anticipating earnings rise when agency becomes private corp; FNMA pres Lapin comments on earnings; illus; FNMA stock ctf illus
cultural revolution seen becoming a spent force; recent developments show major gains for conservative forces, sharp setback for radical aims; Peking directives, in past 2 mos, have widened powers of mil and conservative bureaucratic elements; policy shifts discussed
US Negro athletes call off proposed boycott; some, including; white athletes, to engage in some form of protest; Prof Edwards comments
NYC stores rept brisk back-to-school sales; illus
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 1968, covering September 1, 1968.
Cream
The Rascals
The Doors
Aretha Franklin
Johnny Rivers
1968Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (died 2001)[†]
Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the original World Trade Center as part of the coordinated suicide attacks. Aged 33, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. Before the attacks, he worked as a construction engineer.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]