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In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]
1968Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the vocalist and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.
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Educ Bd suspends Ocean Hill-Brownsville local bd for 30 days for refusing to reassign 83 teachers to classes; Lindsay backs action; Shanker hails action, Oliver challenges legality of suspension; McCoy and principals of 8 schools in dist urge Educ Bd to transfer 83 teachers; UFT official J O'Neill scores decision by union's exec bd authorizing new strike
DETROIT, Oct. 6 -- Bob Gibson and Lou Brock, two of the most spectacular performers ever to grace the World Series, continued to lead the St. Louis Cardinals toward another baseball championship today. But rain proved to be a more serious obstacle than the Detroit Tigers.
L S Rockefeller task force repts on elec utility industry's role in protecting environment; puts special emphasis on burying power lines; makes other recommendations
article on bad weather, difficult terrain and tactical defeats that have slowed Nigerian 2d Div's drives on Nnewi and Awka; illus; map; East claims recapture of Okigwi
Kiesinger says that Moscow can best serve cause of peace in Eur by pursuing Eur Communist powers Karlovy Vary proposals for Eur security system to replace NATO and Warsaw Pact and for nonaggression pact signed by all Eur states, s
Carroll's Riding Acad, Bklyn, destroyed by fire; 54 horses killed; 50 others rounded up after running free in sts
allied troops begin drive to relieve pressure on 2 outposts near Danang and to clear mts around abandoned marine garrison at Khesanh; S Vietnamese irregulars lift seige of 1 of outposts; details on drive and sweep; Amer troops kill 138 enemy in 2 days of fighting in Mekong Delta; other action reptd; map
Rusk denies US negotiators gave Johnson flat recommendation for bombing halt; press repts to this effect, prompted by Vance return from Paris, noted; Vance issues similar denial through State Dept spokesman; US officials, to explain seeming contradictions between news repts and Govt statements, say question of bombing suspension is constantly under rev
Oxford U scientists, in tests of vegetative reproduction, believe they have eliminated any doubt of validity of experiments in which frogs were produced from single body cells extracted from other frogs (W Sullivan rept); tests bear on basic question of what triggers genetic material within a cell; frogs were produced from cells that line intestines, demonstrating that even such highly specialized cells contain in their nuclei information needed to construct new individual Dr J Gurdon, in charge of research, comments; tests and implications discussed
Nixon holds great failure of Adm is its inability to enlist voluntary orgns to help solve problems, nationwide radio s
survey of Cong races