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US Sup Ct, 4-3, upholds Sinatra's contempt conviction for refusing to respond to subpoena; SCI says it can either wait and arrest him if he ever comes to NJ or seek grand jury indictment charging him with criminal contempt
In San Francisco to assist Times reporter E Caldwell, subpoenaed to appear before Fed grand jury investigating Black Panther party
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issue of US reductions shaping into major foreign policy debate, with State Dept opposed to cuts favored by loading Sen doves and policymakers in Defense Dept; Nixon has avoided disclosing own attitude, but his natl security adviser Dr Kissinger has left open possibility of reduction while trying to maintain underlying pol and mil commitments to NATO; many foreign diplomats in Washington assume Adm has already decided on cuts; elements in arguments and issue background detailed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 1970, covering February 4, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
The Rolling Stones
1970Gabrielle Anwar, English-American actress[†]
Gabrielle Anwar is a British-American actress. She is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of Press Gang, as Margaret Tudor in the first season of The Tudors, as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time, and for her starring role as Fiona Glenanne on the USA network television series Burn Notice (2007–2013). Anwar is also known for the 1991 film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, for dancing the tango with Al Pacino in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman, and for the 1993 films Body Snatchers and For Love or Money.
1970Hunter Biden, American attorney and lobbyist[†]
Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney and businessman. He is the second son of former president Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners, a Chinese investment company, in 2013, and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019. He has worked as a lobbyist and legal representative for lobbying firms, a hedge fund principal, and a venture capital and private equity fund investor.
1970Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (born 1897)[†]
Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]