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sources close to Pres-elect Nixon rept that Laird will become Sec of Defense; Laird por
Shanker, Donovan and Doar hold controversial rules for making up lost school time are negotiable; Shanker says UFT will file formal charges against IS 201 officials with Israelson com for violating pact that settled UFT strike, TV int; also says he will not lead march of union members to PS 39; Spencer, after closed meeting with dist parents and some teachers, says schools will be open but that disputed teachers will not be allowed to enter; about 50 persons remain in school after meeting; leave after 2 in group are arrested for assaulting policeman; Donovan says 9 teachers may not enter school as result of possible hearing on charges brought against them by Spencer; rules for hearing charges against teachers detailed
Czech leaders return to Prague after 2-day unannounced conf with USSR leaders, Kiev; Czech delegation, led by Dubcek, includes Svoboda, Cernik, Husak and Strougal; USSR delegation includes Brezhnev, Premier Kosygin, Pres Podgorny and Ukrainian party leader Shelest; Kiev parley, believed to be consultative rather than agreement-making, reptdly covered entire range of Czech-USSR ties; stress on USSR endorsement of leadership planned under new fed govt and long-range econ plans to be approved at upcoming Central Com meeting; Svoboda expected to be named pres of fed repub, Cernik, Premier, Husak to be Slovak Premier and Strougal Czech Premier; make-up of new leadership underlines effective power of Cernik-Husak-Strougal triumvirate, with Dubcek politically isolated; Czech also believed to have raised issue of Zpravy and Radio Vltava; brief communique issued; Kiev and Warsaw confs apparently designed to assure USSR control over all major policy-making; Tass repts on conf; gives no agenda; tighter alignment of Czech econ with economies of USSR bloc foreseen
NYC and NYS decide to begin use of drug methadone to treat addiction; decisions, taken independently, vindicate 5-yr methadone research carried out by Drs Dole and Nyswander at Rockefeller Univ in face of opposition of Fed narcotics officials and Dr Ramirez and other supporters of rival methods; 82% of the 1,135 hardcore addicts treated with methadone in research project have remained free of heroin according to statistics verified by outside agencies; Dr H Meiselas, NYS Addiction Control Comm aide, and M Dontzin, NYC aide, stress fact that new programs are regarded as extension of methadone research rather than as a final commitment to methadone treatment; Vera Inst of Justice assigned to draw up program to bring addicts into treatment; Dole-Nyswander treatment described; Dole comments; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 1968, covering December 9, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Steppenwolf
The Rascals
1968Kurt Angle, American freestyle and professional wrestler[†]
Kurt Steven Angle is an American retired professional wrestler and amateur wrestler. He first earned recognition for winning a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite competing with a broken neck, and achieved wider fame for his tenures in WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is considered one of the greatest professional and amateur wrestlers of all time.
1968Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Brian Lane Bell is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded fifteen studio albums. Bell also fronted the rock band The Relationship and was the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Space Twins.
1968Brent Price, American basketball player[†]
Hartley Brent Price is an American former professional basketball player who played for four teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the brother of 4-time NBA All-Star, Mark Price.
1968Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (born 1883)[†]
Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson was an American politician from the Republican Party who served as an Atlantic City political boss, sheriff of Atlantic County, businessman, and crime boss who was the leader of the political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government from the 1910s until his conviction and imprisonment in 1941. His rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a refuge from Prohibition. In addition to bootlegging, the criminal aspect of his organization was also involved in gambling and prostitution. The HBO series Boardwalk Empire was based on Johnson, portrayed by Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.
1968Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).[†]
Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]