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Pope, in Xmas message, is pessimistic over temporal prospects of man
US Fidelity and Bonding Co bars ins for estimated $2-million lost by adm through Neighborhood Youth Corps thefts and embezzlement, lr to adm; charges adm knew of irregularities when agreement was signed July 17; has returned premium plus interest earned from July ($5,265) but adm attys returned check to co holding bond is still in effect; co, on Dec 5, sent another lr confirming its stand; adm's antipoverty agencies have trouble getting bonding ins
Moscow State Symphony Orch: Orch enabled to make tour of US, beginning in Feb, after US lifts ban on official cultural exchs, imposed after invasion of Czech; orch being presented by S Hurok; tour itinerary
Nixon announces Shriver will remain in Paris as Amb in his Adm
city sets up emergency procedure to facilitate fuel oil deliveries to heatless apt bldgs where there are occupants who are seriously ill; Costello announces plan; Comr Gersten repts deliveries to hosps arc now running smoothly; shortages of oil continue despite tentative accord; Costello says city has received rept of 2,300 apts in which there are 40,000 who are seriously sick and without heat; O'Rourke puts Health Dept staff on 24-hr alert to speed inspections and certifications; Teamsters local pres McGuire warns strike is not over yet
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 18, 1968, covering December 21, 1968.
Glen Campbell
The Beatles
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
Steppenwolf
1968Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1886)[†]
Vittorio Pozzo was an Italian football player, manager and journalist.
1968Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]