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gives address on 'Youth and the Commonwealth,' annual conf of Inst of Directors at Royal Albert Hall; illus with NYC Mayor Lindsay
Police Dept Inspector E A Donnelly, commanding officer of 16th Div in Queens, brought up on departmental charges for failing to rept as ordered to Dept's chief corruption investigator Asst Chief Inspector J McGovern; Donnelly is being questioned by Dist Atty Hogan's office about alleged contacts with convicted gambler H Mulligan; Queens Ptl J R Misak, assigned to enforce gambling laws, brought up on departmental charges of having accepted and received $760 from known gambler
Sec Seamans says US Air Force is entering crucial time in its efforts to prevent N Vietnam from moving supplies down Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos toward Cambodia and S Vietnam, news conf, Saigon; says Communists have been hampered up to now by heavy rains; says US invasion of Cambodia and subsequent loss of Communist supplies makes it imperative for N Vietnam to get major increases in materiel from Laotian network; map
Doubleday & Co (US) and USSR Novosti Press Agency sign pact in which USSR for 1st time formally recognizes copyright of US publisher; book involved is Y Ryabchikov's The Soviet Spacemen; sketch from book; pact was reached in '69 and applies to single book but is seen as major breakthrough that could lead to binding internatl agreement; Doubleday will pub ltd ed in US and Canada in Russian language to establish its copyright; USSR will then pub book in Russia and E Eur for payment of $1 to Doubleday; latter paid Novosti advance fee in 'high 5-figures'; Doubleday exec S Richardson, who effected deal, comments
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 1970, covering November 6, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
Santana
James Taylor
The Jackson 5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1970Ethan Hawke, American actor, author, and director[†]
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]