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Eur bankers and finance officials reaction to de Gaulle move; admire his pol courage but doubt viability of franc at its present value; mkts will reopen but France bars forward franc dealings in Paris for 1 wk; reimposition of exch controls in France seen as vital element in de Gaulle program
longer school days begin; some confusion over schedules develops
Fowler says he favors extending surcharge, TV int; cites importance of maintaining confidence in dollar, barring return of substantial Fed budget deficit; concedes econ has not slowed as much or as soon as expected after surcharge enactment; sees demonstrable effect of surcharge increasing in 4th qr and in '69 1st half
3 gunmen hijack Pan Amer craft with 103 aboard and force it to fly to Cuba
SCME sets strike at Pilgrim State Hosp during wk; sets strike in morning at Buffalo State Hosp; SCME pres J Wurf charges Gov with 'acting like boss of the 19th century', TV int; Gov defends his bargaining with CSEA, int
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 20, 1968, covering November 25, 1968.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
Steppenwolf
The Rascals
1968Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer[†]
Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and Crossing Jordan, on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class, the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed.
1968Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer[†]
Erick Sermon is an American rapper and producer. He is best known as one-third—alongside PMD & DJ Scratch—of 1980s/1990s hip hop group EPMD and for his production work.
1968Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (born 1878)[†]
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
1968Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (born 1908)[†]
Paul Allman Siple was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928–1930 and 1933–1935, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout. Siple was also a Sea Scout. His first and third books covered these adventures. With Charles F. Passel he developed the wind chill factor, a term coined by Siple.
1968The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.[†]
The Old Student House is the former student house of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, located in central Helsinki, Finland, near the crossing of Aleksanterinkatu and Mannerheimintie.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]