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100 lawyers from local offices of Neighborhood Legal Service Project send telegram to T Lenzner asking support from Nixon Adm in funding Southern Fla Migrant Project and Calif Rural Legal Assistance Project, legal aid programs for migrants, which they say are opposed by Govs Kirk and Reagan respectively
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 26 -- The Security Council voted unanimously today to condemn Israel's "premeditated air attack" on Lebanese villages Aug. 11.
police and demonstrators demanding construction jobs for Negroes clash, Pittsburgh; 180 arrested; 45 persons, including 12 policemen, hurt; illus; demonstrators are members of Black Construction Coalition and their supporters; clash occurs near construction site of Three Rivers Stadium, focal point of Coalition demands; construction workers return to jobs after halting work on 10 projects, including stadium; contractors group, Master Bldrs Assn, recently concluded agreement with Pittsburgh Bldg Trade Council offering apprentice training and eventual union membership to 90-100 unskilled workers, but Coalition rejected agreement, saying they were not consulted; Pittsburgh Press reporter and photographer among those arrested in demonstration; police say both sides used chem disabling spray; NAACP exec dir R C Wilkins protests 'police brutality' to Mayor Barr
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday denied the Penn Central Company permission to erect a soaring $100-million office building atop Grand Central Terminal.
group of 40 staff lawyers in Civil Rights Div hold private meeting and form com to draft list of objections and request for assurance that Adm will take firm stand on civil rights enforcement; plan 2d conf after protest is presented to Leonard and later to Atty Gen Mitchell; unusual meeting follows repts of widespread dissatisfaction among Govt's rights lawyers over Miss decision; proposed protest statement was earlier circulated among rights lawyers noting pledges by Secs Finch and Mitchell for vigorous enforcement of rights laws
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 27, 1969, covering August 27, 1969.
Johnny Cash
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Blind Faith
Cream
Original Cast Recording
1969Mark Ealham, English cricketer[†]
Mark Alan Ealham is a former English cricketer, who played Test and One Day International cricket. He played domestic cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club as an all-rounder.
1969Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer, television personality, and author[†]
César Felipe Millán Favela is a Mexican-American dog trainer. His television series Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan was produced from 2004 to 2012 and has been broadcast in more than 80 countries worldwide.
1969Reece Shearsmith, English actor, comedian and writer[†]
Reeson Wayne Shearsmith is a British actor, comedian, writer and magician. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, he created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. He had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End.
1969Chandra Wilson, American actress and director[†]
Chandra Danette Wilson is an American actress and director best known for her role as Dr. Miranda Bailey in Grey's Anatomy since 2005, for which she has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series four times. She also played the character of Bailey on Private Practice and Station 19. She made her New York stage debut in 1991 and began to land guest spots on a variety of prime-time television shows. She made her first film appearance in the 1993 film Philadelphia.
1969Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (born 1884)[†]
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class.
1969Erika Mann, German actress and author (born 1905)[†]
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]