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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21—Officials of Liberty Bell Race Track still thank the big‐name trainers and jockeys who come here. After today's $100,000 Hobson Handicap, they probably received a “you're welcome” in return. The track
“The President made a new economic policy out of all the things we had been saying weren't needed and couldn't work, and ft turned the country around overnight.” That wry comment by a high Administration official came after President Nixon startled the world last week by unveiling the most activist program for United States economic revival since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal nearly 40 years ago.
HAVANA, Aug. 21—During their historic tour of Communist China earlier this year, the United States table tennis players were photographed in countless pursuits of performance and pleasure, from formal chats with Chou En‐lai to informal gatherings with Chinese students.
deposed by anti‐Marxist mil‐civic front; illus appealing for support
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 18, 1971, covering August 22, 1971.
Carole King
Paul & Linda McCartney
James Taylor
Various Artists
Carpenters
1971Richard Armitage, English actor[†]
Richard Crispin Armitage is an English actor and author. He received recognition in the UK with his first leading role as John Thornton in the British television programme North & South (2004). His role as dwarf king and leader Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit brought him international recognition.
1971Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Craig A. Finn is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the frontman of the American indie rock band the Hold Steady, with whom he has recorded nine studio albums. Prior to forming the Hold Steady, Finn was the frontman of Lifter Puller.
1971Rick Yune, American actor[†]
Richard Yune is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist of Korean descent. His most notable roles have been in the movies Snow Falling on Cedars, the first Fast & Furious film The Fast and the Furious, the James Bond movie Die Another Day, and Olympus Has Fallen. He was part of the main cast of the Netflix original series Marco Polo.
1971Birger Nerman, Swedish archaeologist (born 1888)[†]
Birger Nerman was a Swedish archaeologist, historian and philologist who specialized in the history and culture of Iron Age Sweden.
1971J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.[†]
John Edgar Hoover was an American attorney and law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972 – serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight Presidents.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]