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City Council Finance com chmn Merola pledges to restore budget cuts; indicates $100-million will be restored for schools and hosps
'hot money' inflows reach feverish pitch, amid signs that Govt's determination to hold mark might be weakening; mark rate in after-hrs dealings goes beyond official limit against dollar; Bundesbank suspends so-called forward dollar swap transactions, citing danger that funds might be recycled back into W Ger after 3-mos agreement period; Govt reptd deeply split on revaluation, Schiller and Blessing in favor and Strauss and Kiesinger opposed; has found no partners to consider multilateral currency talks, despite stand that unilateral revaluation is impossible; currency expert W Hankel revealed to have been sent on secret mission to Paris last wk for talks on bilateral adjustments of 2 currencies, only to have French official R Larre reply that interim govt would not consider franc devaluation; Ahlers hedges on vehement denial of imminent mark revaluation
experts sec dollar barred from revaluation up or down because it is center of system; hold exch rate changes of other currencies must include revaluation as well as devaluation because devaluation alone would leave dollar overvalued and jeopardize whole system; see Ger revaluation now as useful precedent
NYC welcomes Queen Elizabeth 2; illus; Mayor Lindsay is among party of well wishers; ceremonies described; voyage revd
acquired at Phila auction by 1 G Corn Jr for $404,000, highest price ever paid at auction for printed or ms book or document; is 1 of 16 known to exist
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 1969, covering May 8, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Glen Campbell
Donovan
The Temptations
1969Akebono TarÅ, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna (died 2024)[â ]
Akebono TarÅ was an American-born Japanese professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler from WaimÄnalo, Hawaii. Joining sumo in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990. After two consecutive yusho or tournament championships in November 1992 and January 1993 he made history by becoming the first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo.
1969Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (born 1892)[â ]
Arthur Remington Kellogg was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum. His work focused on marine mammals.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]