Divorce Bill Backed By Catholic Group; DIVORCE BILL GETS CATHOLIC BACKING Statement of Committee Hearing Set Feb. 25
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NYC mayoral aide D F Shaughnessy repts 4 banks will form 'intelligence' network to inform Lindsay adm when any large loss of jobs is threatened because cos are in trouble or weigh leaving city; says city has been losing 15,000 mfg jobs a yr
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, intent on reasserting the Senate's constitutional prerogatives in foreign affairs, decided today to conduct a broad inquiry into Vietnam policy.
soft landing marks stage in space technology; is evidence that craft can land without vanishing in dust; Ocean of Storms has apparently been target for all soft-landing attempts (W Sullivan rept)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 2, 1966, covering February 4, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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Herman's Hermits
1966Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist[†]
Viatcheslav Vladimirovich Ekimov is a Russian former professional racing cyclist. A triple Olympic gold medalist, he was awarded the title of Russian Cyclist of the Century in 2001.
1966All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.[†]
All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 60 was a Boeing 727-81 aircraft making a domestic commercial flight in Japan from Sapporo Chitose Airport to Tokyo Haneda International Airport. On February 4, 1966, all 133 people on board died when the plane mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay about 10.4 km from Haneda in clear weather conditions while on a night approach. The accident was the worst involving a single aircraft in Japan and also the deadliest accident in the country until All Nippon Airways Flight 58 crashed five years later, killing 162 people.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]