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city to erect over 1,000 prefabricated, plexiglass and aluminum sidewalk shelters along heavily traveled routes; puts cost at $2-million; illus
US planes attack enemy gun positions inside Cambodia after Amer observation helicopter is struck by ground fire from Cambodia and explodes in air; incident occurs during fighting along border 80 mi W of Saigon, where S Vietnamese have been trying to block escape of battered N Vietnamese regiment into Cambodia; details on incident
Today is Lincoln's Birth day. Following is a list of services that are affected:
Sens Mondale and Javits propose special study of how effective Fed policies have been in promoting equal educ opportunity in all parts of country in counter move to Ribicoff s supporting Stennis amendment; bipartisan proposal, which would form com consisting of 5 Dem Sens and 3 Repubs and would submit interim rept Aug 1 and final rept Jan, '71, would cover equality of educ opportunity, Fed segregation policy and extent to which policies are applied uniformly in all regions of country; Mondale suggests that com consider whether low-income housing should be more widely dispersed, whether racial isolation could be reduced by new employment policies and whether busing is appropriate to eliminate or reduce racial isolation; proposal will be put forward as substitute for Stennis amendment; under present law, Govt need only prove that state had '54 segregation statute and that racial situation in dist has not chanced materially since then in order to cut off Fed aid; liberals fear that Stennis-Ribicoff amendment would force Govt to prove other state actions aimed at school segregation as it now must do in de facto segregation cases; Nixon Adm announces that it will not oppose 2 Stennis amendments to bill
DiBona withdraws himself from consideration as Selective Service Dir as result of Sen opposition; one White House source repts no one else is under serious consideration as replacement for Hershey, who will leave office Feb 16; another source says an acting dir will be chosen from within Selective Service System
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 1970, covering February 12, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
Engelbert Humperdinck
1970Jim Creeggan, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician[†]
James Raymond Creeggan is the bassist for Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies.
1970Bryan Roy, Dutch footballer and manager[†]
Bryan Eduard Steven Roy is a Dutch football manager and a former professional player.
1970Judd Winick, American author and illustrator[†]
Judd Winick is an American cartoonist, comic book writer and screenwriter, as well as a former reality television personality. He first gained fame for his stint on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco in 1994, before finding success as a comic book creator with Pedro and Me, an autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with The Real World castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora. Winick wrote lengthy runs on DC Comics' Green Lantern and Green Arrow series and created The Life and Times of Juniper Lee animated TV series for Cartoon Network, which ran for three seasons.
1970Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (born 1903)[†]
Clare Turlay Newberry was an American writer and illustrator of 17 published children's books, who achieved fame for her drawings of cats, the subject of all but three of her books. Four of her works were named Caldecott Honor Books.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]