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In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]
1969Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Marc Forster is a German-Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, World War Z, and Christopher Robin, and has directed numerous television commercials as well. He is a BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award nominee.
1969Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver[†]
Marc Goossens, nicknamed The Goose, is a Belgian professional racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, priorly driving the No. 14 Chevrolet Camaro for SpeedHouse in the EuroNASCAR PRO class. He is now driving the No. 56 Chevrolet Camaro for CAAL Racing in the EuroNascar PRO class.
1969Chris Weitz, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Christopher John Weitz is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz was one of the lead actors in the Mike White-directed film Chuck & Buck, directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella, and co-wrote Rogue One with Tony Gilroy and Antz with Todd Alcott and Paul.
With an opportunity for the victory or tie that would clinch first place in the Eastern Division of the American Football League, the New York Jets will oppose the Oakland Raiders, the Western leaders, today at Shea Stadium.
NY Times survey finds environment may eclipse Vietnam as coll issue; says there is strong feeling on campus war will be liquidated in due course; says many students feel war offers only limited scope for student action
production discussed by E Bentley in open lr to dir J Grotowski
comment on alleged massacre and reaction of US officials to it; notes eye-witness accounts; Simpson, Meadlo, Calley and his father illus
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. Thomas, V. I. -- Is the day of Anegada Island's rare iguana passing? Will Bonaire's flamingos be frightened away by the roar of jets? Will Caribbean underwater life be gone before it can be studied? Will shipwrecks of historical importance be stripped by amateurs and souvenir hunters before their part in early seafaring sagas is known and their treasure rescued?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -More and more affluent Americans are discovering that the silence of a Swiss bank vault can be golden.
Vu Ngoc Nha, Huynh Van Trong and Le Huu Thuy convicted of high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor; are jubilant with sentence, had expected death sentence; feel some sort of coalition will soon replace present regime; 37 other defendants found guilty of lesser charges of espionage and given jail sentences from 6 mos to 20 yrs; 2 journalists among accused acquitted; defendants described by prosecution as members of intelligence network that passed pol and mil information to Vietcong; Vu Ngoc Nha and Huynh Van Trong say they have fulfilled their mission; Nguyen Van Thieu's office issues statement denying Vu Ngoc Nha served as aide; Vu Ngoc Nha illus
Boyle denounces move as 'smear job and open union-busting'; he and other union officials dispute charges
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29 -- Army men around the world slept soundly tonight. Their future four-star generals beat Navy in football today, 27-0.
Bravo Cabell Phillips! He has reincarnated Mark Sullivan. Doubtless there were a few errors in Sullivan's six-volume "Our Times," which covered the first 30 years of the century in America, and scholars would hardly look there for source material. It is just possible, too, that some younger historians have never heard of Sullivan and don't want to.