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Justice Tessler overturns as 'patently unreasonable' NYC ban on use of Shea Stadium; rejects city's contention that way in which stadium can be used is in 'sole, unfettered, unreviewable discretion' of Pks Comr; cites city's Adm Code governing stadium use; city to appeal
Nixon suggests that Humphrey should clarify his conditional pledge to end bombing lest it imperil Paris talks and lives of Amer soldiers, news conf; says he does not mean to charge Humphrey offers concessions to Hanoi in Jan that Hanoi cannot get now in Paris; says best way to clarify position would be for Humphrey to say he would continue to negotiate in Paris as Johnson does now, and that N Vietnam would have to offer 'some sort of action, word or deed' before he would agree to bombing halt; notes Humphrey has taken 4 and possibly 5 positions on bombing halt; discusses Humphrey s and bombing question; says 'trump card' of Amer negotiators, if talks are to be successful, is bombing halt; says he is not sure if Humphrey supports talks or if he supports bombing halt
N Vietnamese aides in Paris say Humphrey puts forward same sort of conditions for bombing halt as Johnson; say they see no difference between Humphrey and Nixon; Le Duc Tho comments noted; N Vietnamese say they are watching to see if White House will knock down Humphrey initiative; 1 allied diplomat says Humphrey will not be successful in effort
Pres candidate R M Nixon pledges to end 'heavy-handed bureaucratic regulatory schemes' of Johnson Adm if elected, lr circulated privately to leaders of securities indus and some related businesses; charges Adm believes 'Govt can make decisions for the investor better than he can make them for himself'; denounces moves by SEC that led to proposed reduction of sales comms on NYSE, holding they should not have been made before basic econ study of their possible effects; sees small brokers suffering most from ban on comm splitting; Nixon aide A Greenspan says lr is formal policy statement but was not made pub because it covers narrow policy area; says it may have been sent to as many as several thousand persons
Sen votes, 45-43, to cut off debate, 14 votes short of margin needed to invoke closure; action appears to doom Fortas nomination; Mansfield criticizes Sen failure to 'exercise its responsibilities'; Griffin says protracted debate will be held if Mansfield tries to again raise issue; Dirksen doubts Pres Johnson will withdraw nomination until asked to do so by Fortas; Fortas supporters, in ss before vote, warn defeat of their position will mark 1st time a Sup Ct nomination has been denied Sen confirmation because of a filibuster; Sen Dodd, for 1st time in his career, votes against closure, Sen Hayden, for 1st time, votes for it; Sen Cooper, before vote, says he will vote for closure but vote against nomination if it reaches Sen floor; shelving of Fortas nomination seen ending chances for Thornberry's confirmation since his nomination was contingent on Fortas's elevation; White House says Johnson refuses to back down on Fortas's nomination
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 1968, covering October 2, 1968.
The Doors
The Rascals
Jose Feliciano
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jimi Hendrix
1968Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player and sportscaster (died 2017)[†]
Jana Novotná was a Czech professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in 1997, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 67 weeks. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998, and was runner-up in three other singles majors. She also won twelve major women's doubles titles, four major mixed doubles titles, and three Olympic medals. Novotná played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career.
1968Joey Slotnick, American actor[†]
Joseph Slotnick is an American actor. He is known for roles in Twister (1996), Hollow Man (2000), Elevator (2011), The Single Guy (1995–1997), and Nip/Tuck (2003–2006).
1968Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Glen Edwin Wesley is a Canadian-American former ice hockey defenceman. Wesley played 13 seasons for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. He began his career with the Boston Bruins, and briefly played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wesley played in four Stanley Cup Finals, winning it once in 2006. He was the Hurricanes' director of development for defensemen, and announced his departure on June 12, 2018. As of August 28, 2018 he now works as a development coach for the St. Louis Blues.
1968Kelly Willis, American country music singer-songwriter[†]
Kelly Diane Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her music has been described as being new traditionalist and alternative country.
1968Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (born 1887)[†]
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He has had an immense impact on 20th- and 21st-century art, and a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By the time of World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists as "retinal," intended only to please the eye. Instead, he wanted to use art to serve the mind.
1968Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.[†]
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. Previously, he served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Puebla's 1st district, a senator of the Congress of the Union for Puebla, and Secretary of the Interior.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]