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US Sup Ct, 6-2, widens '66 Miranda v Ariz curbs on police questioning of suspects, R A Orozco '66 murder case
Nixon to send special message to Cong asking extension in full for 1 yr; Repr G Ford and Sen Dirksen, after meeting with Nixon, say Nixon sees extension essential in battle against inflation; Mills says hearings on surcharge cannot begin until after Easter recess; Sen Mansfield predicts Cong approval of extension
Eastman, Max Forrester
Dir Smith repts AEC plans 2 blasts in west central Colo this yr related to detection system for proposed ban on underground nuclear tests, Geneva disarmament conf
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 1969, covering March 26, 1969.
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Glen Campbell
Cream
Iron Butterfly
The Beatles
1969Alessandro Moscardi, Italian rugby player[†]
Alessandro Moscardi is an Italian former rugby union player who played as a hooker.
1969John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (born 1937)[†]
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, Toole wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent." After earning a master's degree from Columbia University, he was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana, at Hunter College while pursuing a PhD at Columbia (unfinished), and finally in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]