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August 6, 1969

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BIG TAX RISE ASKED FOR OIL INDUSTRY; Treasury Plan Also Retains a Depletion Allowance if Used in National Interest

By Special to The New York Times

Treas plan to Increase oil indus taxes by at least $500-million described; plan had originally been submitted to Ways and Means Com closed session but was never seriously considered; Treas seeks to present it at Sen com open hearings in Sept, but needs Nixon approval; plan would not eliminate preferential treatment given oil indus but would require indus to use its tax savings to discover new oil reserves and perhaps other minerals, and would restrict indus ability to write off in yr most of cost of drilling wells

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P.S.C. HEARING SET ON CON ED CRISIS; MAYOR SKEPTICAL; Lindsay Asks U.S. Inquiries -- Calls Record of State Agency 'Not Inspiring'

By Peter Millones

PSC announces it will hold pub hearing on circumstances surrounding reduction in Con Ed power on Monday and last July 18; Lindsay says he is not optimistic about results of any PSC investigation, says comm's record is not inspiring; says he asks FPC and Cong to conduct investigations; 20-sq-block Westchester County area served by Con Ed left without power when tree limb falls and cuts feeder line; details on co problems; FPC spokesman says comm has not received Lindsay's request; City Controller Procaccino says he is not enthusiastic about investigations because they are slow and do not always get results; Con Ed spokesman says co will cooperate fully with PSC investigation

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 6, 1969, covering August 6, 1969.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Blood; Sweat & Tears by Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Blood; Sweat & Tears

    Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hair by Original Cast Recording

    Hair

    Original Cast Recording

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
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    54
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    Album cover for Romeo & Juliet (1969) by Soundtrack

    Romeo & Juliet (1969)

    Soundtrack

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    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    27
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    Album cover for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

    Iron Butterfly

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    4
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    56
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    Album cover for This Is Tom Jones by Tom Jones

    This Is Tom Jones

    Tom Jones

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    9

Notable Births

Simon Doull

1969Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster[†]

Simon Blair Doull is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator and former international cricketer. He was a right-arm medium pacer, who was capable of swing bowling. He was plagued by injuries as a result of which his international career was cut short. Playing for the New Zealand national cricket team, he figured in just 32 Tests and 42 ODIs, taking 98 and 36 wickets respectively. Doull's finest hour arrived when he took 7–65 against India in the Boxing Day Wellington Test in 1998. He played his last Test, against Australia, in March 2000 before turning to commentary and broadcasting.

Elliott Smith

1969Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)[†]

Steven Paul Smith, known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. He had a distinctive vocal style in his solo career after Heatmiser, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and often used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies that were usually finger picked and recorded with tape.

Notable Deaths

Theodor W. Adorno

1969Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)[†]

Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.

Historical Context for August 6, 1969

In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]