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pres Fischer announces plans for $60-million bldg complex for grad students and faculty and poor residents from community; says he believes action is 1st by acad inst to provide pub housing on its own campus; project model illus
Israel decides to bar all vehicular traffic across Jordan River as part of drive against terrorism, spurring speculation that car used in Jerusalem bombing may have come from Jordan; goods being shipped across river will be unloaded on west bank and transfered to other trucks; Brig Gen Vardi outlines probable new restrictions, including limiting permits for west bank Arabs visiting Israel to 1 day and curbs on commercial movement between west bank and Gaza Strip and between E Jerusalem and west bank; predicts curbs on movement within west bank, division of area into dists for greater control; Dayan illus during tour of Nablus; 3 rockets are fired from Jordan at Israeli settlements near Sea of Galilee
JHS 271 ex-principal J Bloom field lr on crisis at school
Sato easily defeats Maeo and Miki for Liberal-Dem party leadership, indicating he will almost certainly continue as Premier for next 2 yrs
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 27, 1968, covering November 27, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jose Feliciano
Steppenwolf
The Rascals
1968Al Barrow, English bass guitarist[†]
Al Barrow is an English bassist best known as the former member of the hard rock band Magnum.
1968Michael Vartan, French-American actor[†]
Michael Vartan is an American actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama Alias, his role on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, and his role on the E! drama The Arrangement as Terence Anderson. His film roles include The Pallbearer, Never Been Kissed, The Next Best Thing, One Hour Photo, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, Monster-in-Law, Rogue, Colombiana, and Small Town Crime.
1968Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major professional men's basketball league, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.[†]
Penny Ann Early was an American athlete who achieved two notable firsts in her lifetime as she was the first female jockey to be licensed to ride parimutuel horse races and was the first woman ever to play in a professional men's basketball league in the United States, both during the 1960s.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]