Arts and Literature
- Richard Burton makes one of his last stage appearances, in the musical Camelot.
- Michael Bogdanov becomes Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre.
- Bobi Jones is appointed to the professorial Chair in Welsh at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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