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Deputy Mayor Robert Price met yesterday with officials of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in an effort to resolve complaints that he had made undue demands on the police force.
Budget
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Lindsay says his pledge to save $300-400-million cannot be construed in dollar savings alone, press conf; says large part of savings will be in increased productivity without cuts in essential services; denies he is giving new interpretation to campaign pledge; Becker holds estimate is conservative because of different interpretations of efficiency loss
US C-123 with 47 soldiers aboard crashes and burns, Ankhe area; no survivors; guerrillas stage mortar attack on US and S Vietnamese air base, Danang; kill 2 Amers and 2 S Vietnamese, injure 11 Amers and 11 S Vietnamese; illus; ground actions light, air war intense in S Vietnam; USN tracker plane disappears over Gulf of Tonkin; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 19, 1966, covering January 25, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Chet Culver, American educator and politician, 41st Governor of Iowa[†]
Chester John Culver is an American politician who served from 2007 through 2011 as the 41st governor of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, he had previously served as the 29th Secretary of State of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. He was elected governor in the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election and ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 2010, losing to Terry Branstad.
1966Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer and manager[†]
Yiannos Ioannou is a former Cypriot football player of APOEL FC and the Cyprus national team. He is widely considered one of the best strikers in the history of Cypriot football.
1966Mark Schlereth, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Mark Fremont Schlereth is an American former professional football player who is a television and radio sportscaster. Schlereth played guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons (1989–2000) with the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos. He is currently a football analyst for Fox Sports, appearing on FS1, and other programs. He also co-hosted Sedano & Stink with Jorge Sedano from 7–10 p.m. ET on ESPN Radio until late March 2015 when he left the program to pursue other broadcast opportunities. He also appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light, and 2012's Red Dawn remake.
1966Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (born 1895)[†]
Saul Adler OBE FRS was an Israeli expert on parasitology.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]