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SPEAKING of confrontations, doesn't the Theater Meets Education grab you as an absolute killer? What with the American theater coming all unstuck and academia stumbling around in a cap and gown shot through with holes, what nasty brew are we concocting when we toss them into the same cauldron?
1,536-lb spacecraft with monkey aboard launched by Delta rocket from Cape Kennedy into earth orbit for 30-day flight designed to be most intensive study ever made of a complex living organism; biological data expected to help in planning manned earth-orbiting laboratory missions and flights to Mars; monkey's brain patterns and temperatures, blood pressure, heart action, respiration, urine and other physiological data will be measured; monkey will also earn part of food by performing certain daily tasks as part of brain studies; monkey, diagram of spacecraft illus
MIAMI, June 28 -- Ivory Crockett, a 5-foot-6-inch sprinter, ran like a giant today and upset John Carlos for a national title in the 100-yard dash.
LITCHFIELD, Conn. -- Never in the history of this cultural, industrial, educational and residential village has there been a celebration such as the one that is scheduled to take place from Thursday through Sunday to memorialize Litchfield's 250th anniversary.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 1969, covering June 29, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
The 5th Dimension
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Soundtrack
Iron Butterfly
1969Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (died 2010)[â ]
Claude Béchard was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Quebec Liberal Party Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Kamouraska-Témiscouata in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region; as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as well as the Minister for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs, and previously the Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity.
1969Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager[â ]
Pavlos Dermitzakis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.
1969TÅru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician[â ]
TÅru Hashimoto is a Japanese television personality, politician, and lawyer. He is a former governor of Osaka Prefecture and mayor of City of Osaka. He is a founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.
1969Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1919)[â ]
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe was a Congolese businessman and politician. He served as the president of the secessionist State of Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1964 to 1965.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]