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Pres-elect Nixon's Task Force on Urban Affairs urges reducing or ending tax exemptions for interest paid on mortgages
This report on the Human Resources Administration was prepared by Richard Reeves, Barnard L. Collier, Richard Phalon and Richard Severo of The New York Times.
Rockefeller says sales tax is only tax that can be raised without hurting state's competitive position; holds state is close to danger point on raising taxes; Conservative party urges 10% cutback in state services to avoid sales-tax rise; Assembly Minority Leader Steingut objects to rise because it will fall heaviest on low-income persons; prefers rise in income tax on upper-income persons
Mitchell I. Ginsberg, the city Human Resources Administrator, denied yesterday a New York Times report that "apparent mismanagement" in the antipoverty program was the reason three local health centers were receiving funds directly from Washington instead of through his agency.
Legis com rept criticizes Ridolfi and Selecky, holds their actions have reflected adversely on Legis; says evidence against Friedland is 'too confusing' and refers Friedland to Middlesex grand jury; exonerates Farley, Horn, Laskin and Fiore; rejects any attempt to ask for legislators censure or expulsion; rept unanimously accepted by both houses of Legis; Sen McDermott comments
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 15, 1969, covering January 15, 1969.
The Beatles
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Sergio Mendes
The Rolling Stones
1969Delino DeShields, American baseball player and manager[†]
Delino Lamont DeShields, also nicknamed "Bop", is an American former professional baseball second baseman and current baseball coach. He played for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Chicago Cubs between 1990 and 2002. He is currently the manager of the minor league Harrisburg Senators, the Double-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals.
1969The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]