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Min Stewart reptdly stresses importance GB places on Bonn efforts to achieve better ties with E Eur, conf, NYC, with Gromyko
Johnson Adm request for $480-million contribution likely to become lost in Cong rush for adjournment
Wallace advocates early end to hostilities, foreign policy paper given as s to Natl Press Club; says foreign aid should be refused to nations that oppose US in war; backs ending war through negotiation
McCoy says he will relieve 83 'unwanted' teachers of their classroom assignments with full knowledge that he and principals of 8 other dists schools may be relieved of their jobs; says he is following orders of local governing bd despite its suspension; 700 of 1,700 JHS 271 pupils reptdly attend classes; massive police forces remain in dist; O'Neill scored for his opposition to strike, s to UFT chap chmn; illus
MPAA, Natl Theater Owners Assn and Ind Film Importers and Distributors of Amer announce films classification system; details; J Valenti says recent US Sup Ct rulings paved way for system; system to take effect Nov 1; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 1968, covering October 8, 1968.
The Doors
The Rascals
Jose Feliciano
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jimi Hendrix
1968Ali Benarbia, Algerian footballer[†]
Ali Benarbia is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is a TV presenter for Al Jazeera Sports in Doha.
1968Zvonimir Boban, Croatian footballer and sportscaster[†]
Zvonimir Boban is a Croatian former professional footballer who works at UEFA as the Chief of Football. A midfielder, Boban played most of his career for Italian club AC Milan with whom he won four Serie A titles and one UEFA Champions League title. He also captained the Croatia national team which won third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
1968Emily Procter, American actress[†]
Emily Procter is an American actress and activist. She played Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing and Det. Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Miami (2002–2012).
1968CL Smooth, American rapper and producer[†]
Corey Brent Penn Sr., known by his stage name CL Smooth, is an American rapper. He is best known as the vocal half of the hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
1968Leeroy Thornhill, English keyboard player and DJ[†]
Leeroy Thornhill is a British electronic music artist and formerly a rave dancer and occasional keyboardist for the British electronic group the Prodigy. Thornhill's live performances throughout the 1990s included his unique style of shuffling.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]