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Lindsay signs bill; hopes action will influence NYS Legis and US Cong to approve 'long-overdue' minimum wage increase; says City Council has agreed to hold hearings on his proposed amendments; City Council Pres Smith backs bill
NYC Mayor Lindsay, Liberal candidate for re-election, cites his adm's achievements for aged, s, campaign rally, Manhattan Center
Pres Nixon consumer message seen calling for revival of dormant Consumer Counsel Office
Mayor Lindsay and Controller Mario A. Procaccino demanded yesterday that any new policy to admit more Negroes and Puerto Ricans to City University guarantee places in its four-year senior colleges for high school graduates whose grades would qualify them now.
Laird, rebuffing Sen leaden, opposes any cease-fire that is not part of agreement with N Vietnam, s, Washington; White House says Laird speaks as top Adm official and reflects Pentagon's view; White House press sec leaves unclear whether Laird expresses Adm view; Laird speaks shortly after Scott advances proposal that US unilaterally proclaim cease-fire 'just as soon as it can be safely arranged'; White House sets time for Nov 3 s; Laird seeks to halt speculation that s may include cease-fire proposal; Mansfield argues Adm, by strategy shift, moves toward cease-fire, s, Sen; Laird disputes this; predicts that by next July overall cost of war will have been reduced to annual rate of $17-billion; war cost totalled $30-billion in fiscal yr that ended July 1
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1969, covering October 23, 1969.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Johnny Cash
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Blind Faith
1969Dolly Buster, Czech film producer and director, actress and author[†]
Nora Baumberger, known by the stage name Dolly Buster, is a Czech-German former pornographic actress, filmmaker, and author.
1969Trudi Canavan, Australian author and illustrator[†]
Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. Subsequently, Canavan has written a series called Millennium's Rule, with a completely new setting consisting of multiple worlds which characters can cross between. Though originally planned as a trilogy, a fourth and final book in the Millennium's Rule series was published.
1969Bill O'Brien, American football player and coach[†]
William James O'Brien, nicknamed "Teapot", is an American football coach who is currently the head coach at Boston College. Previously, he was the head coach of the Houston Texans from 2014 to 2020, and at Penn State from 2012 to 2013. Prior to Boston College, O'Brien was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama and for the New England Patriots. After the Patriots parted ways with longtime head coach Bill Belichick at the end of the 2023 season, O'Brien was not retained by the team.
1969Brooke Theiss, American actress[†]
Brooke Theiss-Genesse is an American actress who has starred in film and on television.
1969Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (born 1922)[†]
Thomas Jefferson Edwards was an American singer and songwriter. His most successful record was the multi-million-selling song "It's All in the Game", becoming the first African-American to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]