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BOSTON, March 1 -- The Boston Bruins again displayed their particular viciousness while scoring an 8-5 victory over the New York Rangers tonight as Phil Esposito broke the National Hockey League season point-scoring mark.
PARIS -- If attentiveness, intelligence and unfailing courtesy can put NATO back together again, then President Nixon's work in Europe is done tonight.
Nixon Adm weighs pilot program with simulated tax incentives to test theory that incentives would induce many businessmen to train hard-core jobless; probable way in which plan would work detailed; plan is still being discussed at dept level in Adm and has not been presented to Nixon
many top faculty members, such as Profs H Rosovsky and S M Lipset, have left campus as result of student disorders, faculty infighting and adm bureaucracy, resulting in possible unfavorable future acad standing for system; 24 sr profs have left campus each yr since '64 campus disorders; adm officials hold faculty exodus is not unusual for inst as large as Berkeley
Western diplomats in Moscow see USSR wanting summit conf with Nixon and likely to keep tensions over W Ger Pres elections in W Berlin at acceptable level
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 26, 1969, covering March 2, 1969.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Glen Campbell
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
The Association
1969In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.[†]
Toulouse is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 511,684 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2022); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,513,396 inhabitants (2022). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]