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200 activists stage brief invasion of Point O' Woods, Fire Island community regarded as bastion of exclusiveness; charge discrimination against Negroes, Jews and others; illus; leaders include N Hentoff
Article on experiment in building low-cost assembly-line housing, Detroit; UAW pres Reuther sees experiment as breakthrough in mass production of housing; says it roughly cuts in half construction costs per sq ft; houses being built by LeB Walker and Prebuilt Homes Inc; both use untrained Negro workers at pay below Detroit scale; way houses are built described; house illus
Nixon returns from round-the-world journey apparently convinced he can extricate US from Vietnam without excessive loss of prestige in Asia and elsewhere; is said to have abandoned much of rhetoric that has dominated Amer thinking over last 2 decades; journey is not believed to have advanced or retarded Nixon efforts to extricate US, except possibly through gesture of support for Nguyen Van Thieu
Urban Development Corp plans 'new town' at Amherst in conjunction with new campus
Labor party conv
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 1969, covering August 4, 1969.
Blood| Sweat & Tears
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Tom Jones
Henry Mancini
1969Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian musician. He co-founded the heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist until his departure in 1997. He currently plays in the heavy metal bands Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, Killer Be Killed and Go Ahead and Die. Cavalera was also involved in a short-lived side project called Nailbomb.
1969Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]