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Dies, 75; por; career; Pres Nixon, ex-Pres Eisenhower tributes
Natl Comm on Causes and Prevention of Violence repts to Pres Johnson that study made at his request reveals key to violence in soc appears to lie with youth, possibly a relatively small number; says recent research suggests possibility of identifying youths most prone to crime and making it possible to establish priority targets in programs of crime prevention and rehabilitation; details studies conducted in Phila; other findings detailed
Pres Nixon orders Budget Bur to rev outlay ceilings on Natl Science Foundation spending for fiscal '69, hinting he may be willing to restore funds for research at univs which are now frozen
Donovan sets faculty confs, Feb, on racial and religious tensions in system; NY ACLU charges ouster of Campbell arid Vann would be violation of freedom of s; 200 persons, mostly Jewish Defense League members, picket WBAI; 6 members of 'Black Concerned Clergymen' charge Shanker with singling out individual incidents of Negro anti-Semitism to unjustly blame entire Negro community
Yale faculty votes to strip corps of acad standing and relegate it to status of extracurricular activity; Defense Dept concerned
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 29, 1969, covering January 31, 1969.
The Beatles
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
Glen Campbell
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Sergio Mendes
1969Dov Charney, Canadian-American fashion designer and businessman, founded American Apparel[†]
Dov Charney is a Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. He is the founder of American Apparel, which was one of the largest garment manufacturers in the United States until its bankruptcy in 2015. Charney was fired from American Apparel due to allegations of misconduct. Charney subsequently founded Los Angeles Apparel.
1969Daniel Moder, American cinematographer[†]
Daniel Richard Moder is an American cinematographer who has worked on such films as Secret in Their Eyes, The Mexican, and Fireflies in the Garden. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his cinematography in the television film The Normal Heart. He is married to actress Julia Roberts.
1969Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (born 1894)[†]
Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, with a smaller number of followers in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]