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Mayor Lindsay told Governor Rockefeller in a letter yesterday that the city faced a gap of $750-million to $1-billion in budget needs next year and that it needed state and Federal help.
Boeing 747 flies from Seattle to NYC in 1st pub preview; Brig Gen Lindbergh, Pan Amer dir, on hand to greet crew, Kennedy; illus; 191 persons, mostly newsmen, were aboard on 4 hr, 5 min flight; craft described; illus
Sato dissolves House of Reprs, schedules gen elections Dec 27; move linked to his desire to benefit from accord with US on reversion of Okinawa; Liberal-Dems expected to keep 272 seats they now hold and to gain up to 20 more; pertinent issues facing Govt discussed
mil appeals ct declines to issue injunction on publicity; issues unanimous 'memorandum opinion'; says there is no basis for injunction; notes actions by Kennedy; other details on decision; Sen Kennedy says he is 'deeply disturbed' by alleged killings; Dominick intensifies attack on news media; Javits comments on incident
EEC leaders agree to create monetary union and that development of monetary cooperation should depend on harmonization of econ policies; French pres Pompidou and W Ger Chancellor Brandt say it is necessary to create Eur reserve fund; Pompidou also says community should form common front in IMF
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 1969, covering December 3, 1969.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Tom Jones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Temptations
1969Bill Steer, English guitarist and songwriter[†]
William Geoffrey Steer is a British guitarist and co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass. He is considered a pioneer and an essential contributor to grindcore and death metal due to his involvement in Napalm Death and Carcass, two of the most important bands of those genres. Presently he plays with Gentlemans Pistols, the reactivated Carcass and appeared as a live second guitarist for Angel Witch from 2011 to 2015.
1969Hal Steinbrenner, American businessman[†]
Harold Steinbrenner is an American businessman best known as the chairman and managing general partner of Yankee Global Enterprises, which owns the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB), minority shares of the American soccer club New York City Football Club of Major League Soccer (MLS), and Italian professional football club AC Milan of Serie A. He and his siblings inherited control of the team from their father, George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]