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NY Times survey finds nonviolence as technique for soc change has been making quiet gains across country, despite violence which has marked Negro revolution since King assassination in '68; cites recent developments aiding nonviolent movement
article on producing aspect of show; actions of producer P Rose discussed
segregationists participating in Washington, DC, rally advocating victory in Vietnam, protest busing to achieve racial balance; Gov Maddox scores Adm's $1.5-billion appropriation for improvement of segregated schools as bribe for local officials, s at rally
Johnson illus visiting granddaughter, Lucinda Robb, Arlington, Va, home
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 1970, covering April 5, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Santana
1970Soheil Ayari, French race car driver[†]
Soheil Ayari is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won the French Formula Ford championship of 1994, Formula Three championship of 1996 and the Macau Grand Prix of 1997. From 1997 until 2000, he competed in Formula 3000 where he won two races before moving on to the French Supertouring Championship in 2001 where he became champion in 2002, 2004 and 2005.
1970Valérie Bonneton, French actress[†]
Valérie Bonneton is a French actress.
1970Diamond D, American hip hop producer[†]
Joseph Kirkland, better known by his stage name Diamond D, is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.
1970Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster[†]
Petar Genov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster (2002).
1970Thea Gill, Canadian actress[†]
Thea Louise Gill is a Canadian actress best known for her starring role as Lindsay Peterson in the Showtime television series Queer as Folk.
1970Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter[†]
Miho Hatori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Smokey Hormel, John Zorn, and many more.
1970Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner[†]
Irina Nikolayevna Timofeyeva is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in running the marathon.
1970Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)[†]
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.
1970Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)[†]
Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. On February 13, 1968, Sturtevant received the 1967 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1970Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (born 1907)[†]
Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti was a German diplomat. He is best known as the West German Ambassador to Guatemala from 1968 until his assassination in 1970. The story of his assassination by Guatemalan guerillas was depicted in a 1970 book, Why Karl von Spreti Died, by Ryszard Kapuściński.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]